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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think Santorum and Co. missed something ...
No birth control means more future voters who aren't going to vote his way ... more economically diasadvantaged voters (because the rich Rethugs can afford birth control anyway). And yet all the Thugs are jumping on this bandwagon ...
Are these guys stupid, or what????
I'm sorry, that was a rhetorical question!
Bake
LeftinOH
(5,359 posts)people who can be relied upon to vote "R". I know a few of them; they're easily distracted by trifling wedge issues, which is essentially GOP strategy in any election.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)PatSeg
(47,768 posts)Evidently they can't see as far ahead as November! The candidates are so busy trying to one up each other on social issues, they've forgotten what its takes to get elected in a general election.
Missy Vixen
(16,207 posts)The women in their lives will cut them off. After all, a guy who says outside of the house that he's in favor of halting birth control access for women (after all, women who have sex = sluts, according to the GOP,) is not a guy one should be sleeping with, if one has a choice.
Then again, I don't think there's been any action in the Santorums' bedroom for quite some time now...
PCIntern
(25,655 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)we'd probably see a sea-change in their policies, but it's the sexually constipated that provide the reliable, steady stream of $$$$.
Sure, there are lots of (D) who use prostitutes and rent boys, but most (D)s aren't horrified by sexuality or repressed to anywhere near the same degree. That's where the big money is - people who have something to hide.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)people will stop having sex except for creating babies ...
Hell, you can't even have Republican/conservative potential Presidential candidates stop from having sex with people other than their wives ...