You might have heard about Rick Santorum super PAC sugar daddy Foster Friess dismissing the importance of covering contraception because in his day "gals" used to put "inexpensive" aspirin "between their knees." But even though Friess' comments may have revealed him to be a total ass, at least he implicitly endorsed the concept of contraception—and that puts him several steps higher on the evolutionary ladder than Rick Santorum. Edit: Actually, Friess is using crude, misogynistic language to endorse abstinence, so he's every bit as crazy as Santorum—I've changed my headline to focus on Santorum.
Check out this video from October of Santorum pledging to become the first president to talk about "the dangers of contraception."
According to Santorum, "libertine" Christians who support contraception are misguided. "It's not okay, it's a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." Only sex is "for the purposes of procreation" is it acceptable. "That's the perfect way a sexual union should happen," he said. Having sex "simply for pleasure" is unacceptable.
Video clips like that are why the Obama campaign team should be salivating at the prospect of facing Rick Santorum—there's no way a radical like Santorum could come close to winning the White House. I'd like to think a radical like that couldn't even win the Republican nomination, but the fact that Mitt Romney is rushing to embrace Santorum's view of contraception instead of hammering him for it is a clear sign of just how crazy Republicans have become.