cut an abortion ad in the final stretch, responding to attacks from his opponent. I wrote about it earlier; Ramesh Ponnuru concurred dubitante. Since then various pro-life groups have come out of the woodwork to . . . well, not to oppose Rogers exactly, but rather to express regret and to prophesy that Rogers’s embrace of pro-choice language may cost him his seat.
They’re obviously sincere as to the substance of Rogers’s ad, but one wonders if the prediction game isn’t laying down a marker to later take credit for the scalp (perhaps having seen the NYT and Atlas polls). If the GOP is truly careening to a Watergate-style annihilation, blaming Rogers’s loss on abortion is like blaming the lives lost in the tragic Palm Beach jet crash on the passengers not wearing their seat belts. It won’t work.
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