Santorum’s Pill Problem

The Republican presidential circus continues to offer great entertainment. For this, Mitt Romney is owed many thanks. His weakness as a front-runner are the reason you can enjoy Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum being treated as semi-serious contenders. (Though don’t underestimate the impact of the media’s evident desire to prolong the race either.) Michigan – of which more later – is Romney’s latest firewall. A defeat in the state his father governed (albeit decades ago) and that he won convincingly four years ago is not so easily shaken off as accidents in Colorado or Minnesota. Nevertheless, Rmney remains the only plausible November candidate available. If you doubt this then consider Rick Santorum’s views on contraception:

One of the things I will talk about that no President has talked about before is I think the dangers of contraception in this country, the whole sexual libertine idea. Many in the Christian faith have said, “Well, that’s okay.