There are ways to make points about the proper role of mandates or what should be included in basic health care without calling people sluts, whores or prostitutes or going off on jihads against the social changes of the past 50 years.
To the extent that Republicans can't do that or don't want to do that I think they may pay a cost electorally. As I wrote elsewhere religious freedom is a serious argument and one that initially attracted religious and even non-religious people to oppose the contraceptive mandate. Calling women names just plays into the hands of the opposition and will confirm some people's belief that Republicans/conservatives have gone round the bend.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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