And I don’t mean that in a gross way.

In case you missed it, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum came out against birth control. No, really:

Rick Santorum reiterated his belief that states should have the right to outlaw contraception during an interview with ABC News yesterday, saying, “The state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statues they have.”

…Santorum has long opposed the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling “that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception” and has also pledged to completely defund federal funding for contraception if elected president. As he told CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart in October, “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 former Pennsylvania senator explained. “It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”

As Digby notes, the crazy gets, well, crazier:

If you can take one part out, if it’s not for the purpose of procreation, that’s not one of the reasons you diminish this very special bond between men and women. So why can’t you take other parts of it out? It becomes deconstructed to the point where it’s simply pleasure…

Here’s Santorum’s problem: Most people like fucking. And much of the time, they don’t want a pregnancy as a result of said fucking.

This presents an opportunity for Democrats. They need to ask Romney and Paul whether they think contraception should be banned, and also if it is a ‘states rights’ issue. And this needs to happen during the GOP primary while Santorum is still a factor. Paul might make the states rights argument (can he let Santorum flank him on this issue?), and Romney must just knuckle under to the theocratic wing of the Republican party. If the major Republican candidates do come out against birth control (?!?), this lends itself to some very nice ‘unofficial’ slogans:

“Like fucking without getting pregnant? Vote Democratic”
“Like unwanted pregnancies? Vote Republican”

Definitely fits on a bumper stick, and it goes straight to the lizard brain (and before someone argues that this should be beneath us, we’re not the idiots opposing birth control over four decades after we landed someone on the moon). Of course, we could clean then up for more public consumption:

“Like ‘making babies’ without making babies? Vote Democratic”

If one of these bozos does manage to win (given the lousy economy, that’s not out of the question), this is a good thing for the social life of those who live in pro-fucking without pregnancy states like Massachusetts. Massachusetts can make some new tourist slogans:

“Massachusetts: We’re open for ‘business'”

A nice kind of viral or cryptic version could be a picture of Massachusetts with “WHHEEEE!!!” overlaid on the image. And there would be ways to attack the tourism industry in anti-fucking states:

“Come to XX for the fun, stay for the unwanted pregnancy!”

This is the Mad Biologist attempting to turn a frown upside down.