Rich Lowry: 'For advancing what once was a consensus policy, Lindsey Graham is being portrayed as a political incompetent who has needlessly endangered his party’s prospects in the midterms.'
In this image from video, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks in the Senate, Jan. 6, 2021.There was a time when Senate Republicans were squarely behind a federal ban on late-term abortion. And it wasn’t long ago.
For advancing what once was a consensus policy, Graham is being portrayed as a political incompetent who has needlessly endangered his party’s prospects in the midterms. This reaction is another sign of how badly the party needs to find an incrementalist position where it can plant its flag, and then focus its fire on the vulnerabilities of the other side.
Most Republicans aren’t in a position to make this argument, though. Not only did they back previous iterations of Graham’s restriction, they also strongly supported a national ban on partial-birth abortion. If the worry is that Democrats will use the Graham bill to hit Republicans on abortion, they are already hitting Republicans on abortion.
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