This headline ran this morning on Fox News' Erick Erickson's website. And the post, about the Kermit Gosnell case, is just as unhinged as the header suggests.

The Philly Columnist goes on to castigate people who restrict abortions. You wouldn’t have these freaks like Gosnell in a properly licensed clinic. The abortionist doesn’t keep baby feet in a jar like some PUA blogger carving notches on the bedpost when the government licenses the baby-killing so that it is civilized.

I’ll go ahead violate Goodwin’s Law here. The comparisons in my mind are apt. The silly Nazis insisted on using Cyclon-B and making the Jews do the St. Vitus Dance instead of killing six million undesirables nicely. That does it! I’m going back in my time machine and revoking all of Triblinka’s carefully prepared government paperwork.

You can’t license people who act uncivilized. It leads to just the sort of unpleasantness we got at Gosnell’s clinic in Filthadelphia. If you want America to get rid of 50 million unborn children since Roe v. Wade, you have to do it quietly and utter all the proper euphemisms.

Remember, this isn't some fringe site. This is the one of the most popular "conservative" blog on the Internets.

Charming people.

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The Willard campaign and various right-wingers are annoyed that, during the Republican debate Saturday night, the candidates were asked whether they think states should be able to ban contraception. In particular, Willard's people are ticked about this exchange:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Governor Romney, do you believe that states have the right to ban contraception? Or is that trumped by a constitutional right to privacy?

ROMNEY: George, this is an unusual topic that you’re raising. States have a right to ban contraception? I can’t imagine a state banning contraception. I can’t imagine the circumstances where a state would want to do so, and if I were a governor of a state or...

STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, the Supreme Court has ruled --

(CROSSTALK)

ROMNEY: ... or a -- or a legislature of a state -- I would totally and completely oppose any effort to ban contraception. So you’re asking -- given the fact that there’s no state that wants to do so, and I don’t know of any candidate that wants to do so, you’re asking could it constitutionally be done? We can ask our constitutionalist here.

(LAUGHTER)

(CROSSTALK)

STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m sure Congressman Paul...

(CROSSTALK)

ROMNEY: OK, come on -- come on back...

(CROSSTALK)

STEPHANOPOULOS: ... asking you, do you believe that states have that right or not?

ROMNEY: George, I -- I don’t know whether a state has a right to ban contraception. No state wants to.I mean, the idea of you putting forward things that states might want to do that no -- no state wants to do and asking me whether they could do it or not is kind of a silly thing, I think.

"Silly thing"? If it's so "silly" -- why do they keep bringing it up?

Rick Santorum, who placed a close second in the Iowa Caucuses, recently said:

“The state has a right to do that [ban contraception], I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that," he said. "It is not a constitutional right. The state has the right to pass whatever statutes they have. That's the thing I have said about the activism of the Supreme Court--they are creating rights, and it should be left up to the people to decide."

And Ron Paul, who's currently polling second in New Hampshire, has argued exactly the same thing.

Also, this isn't some esoteric legal abstraction. Two Southern states recently tried to ban certain forms of birth control.

At any rate, the Supreme Court case Romney's feigning ignorance about is Griswold v. Connecticut, and it served as a legal precedent for Roe. Which is why social conservatives like Santorum and Paul frequently attack it.

So why was Willard and Hugh Hewitt so irritated that George Stephanopoulos asked him that question?

Because Republicans want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to pander to the fundies, who are the shock troops of their party, but they know that New Hampshire is moderate on social issues -- and that this kind of talk is an absolute killer with independents nationally. In short, they know what fires up the snake handlers turns off everyone else -- including the Wall Street crowd.

So when they're backed into a corner, they strike this incredibly cowardly pose -- "States should absolutely have the right to do [x], but I don't think they should."

Funny how they don't take that approach to gay marriage, isn't it?

Private Buffoon: Jim Cramer looked into his crystal ball and saw a huge stock rally after a Brown win. Uh oh.

Womenstake: The 37th Anniversary of Roe and the importance of judges. Evil Slut Clique remembers.

Talk 2 Action: The Ugandan "kill the gays" network organizing in...Newark?

The Intercept: Massachusetts miracle? Follow the money.

Know Your Government: Who's Up for a March on Washington?

Guest round up by Blue Gal, send tips to (new email) bluegal AT crooksandliars DOT com.

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The right-wing pundits have been busy whipping a fresh batch of eliminationist rhetoric this week.

Leading the parade, as is often the case, was Ann Coulter, appearing on Bill O'Reilly's show on Monday:

Coulter: Well, apparently, this one random nut who shot Tiller -- I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester.

... I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don't want to impose my moral values on others.

... OK, their logic is, if you don't believe in abortion, don't have an abortion. If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist.

Coulter actually was just regurgitating this week's column for cable consumption:

I'm not justifying it, but I understand when you take democracy away from people, some of them will react violently. The total number of deaths attributable to Roe were seven abortion clinic workers and 40 million unborn babies.

... I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?

Following the moral precepts of liberals, I believe the correct position is: If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, then don't shoot one.

As Fred Clarkson observes:

So that's four times in the past year and a half that she has coyly or not so coyly justified political assassination: Before prominent religious right audiences; in a nationally syndicated column, and on national television.

Meanwhile, as Blue Texan at FDL observes, Joe the Plumber was joining the parade with an open wish for the lynching of Sen. Chris Dodd:

Wurzelbacher has a reputation for being a blunt, politically incorrect speaker. Referring to Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., more than once, Wurzelbacher asked, "Why hasn't he been strung up?"

...Referring to the Constitution as "almost like the Bible," Wurzelbacher said of the Founding Fathers: "They knew socialism doesn't work. They knew communism doesn't work."

The real prize, however, belongs to Col. Jim Ammerman, leader of the Full Gospel Chaplaincy. as Bruce Wilson at Talk2Action reports,

As noted in the Newsweek story, last fall - as the presidential election was heating up, retired Colonel E.H. "Jim" Ammerman, in the official September 2008 newsletter [ PDF of newsletter ] of his Department of Defense approved chaplain endorsing agency, published a letter which suggested, per the advice of a fabricated Abraham Lincoln quote, that four US Senators should be be "arrested, quickly tried and hanged!!!"...

The alleged crime ? - voting against a Senate bill that would have established English as the official language of the United States. Newsweek did not reveal the names of the four senators. But a May 20, 2009 Huffington Post story by Military Religious Freedom Foundation Senior Researcher Chris Rodda does: Democratic Party senators Dodd, Biden, Clinton, and Obama.

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