Sort of like pot smoking.

The reason I harp on the ridiculous, whacked out agenda of the dominionist "brain trusts" who actually run the GOP is because, well, the people who actually run the GOP have this whacked out, dominionist agenda. They're the ones in charge. They're the ones making the decisions. That's why you have anti-contraception waterheads put in charge of Family Planning at the FDA.

The Corporate Media, whose intere$$$$$$t$ overlap with the Republican Party's, isn't terribly motivated to point out how completely nucking futs the GOP "base" is... whereas it is totally in their interest to portray the Democratic Party as somehow "out of touch" by supporting reproductive choice.

Problem is, bullshit noise about the all-powerful "values voter" notwithstanding, the American People are overwhelmingly pro-choice. And when it comes to contraception, the Republican agenda is even more massively out of whack with where the American People are at. Like you said, they're never gonna be able to outlaw screwing, and they're never going to outlaw birth control, either. But they have to keep this nutjob 2% or whatever that runs their party happy. Which is why, here, Scott McClellan REFUSED to answer whether Bush is "opposed to contraception".

I mean, shit- the guy only has two kids, and they're twins. Either we are supposed to believe he and Laura have had sex only a handful of times, or obviously there's some birth control going on. But Bush CANNOT say "I support legal contraception", because the nutter butters in charge of the GOP, their heads would fucking EXPLODE. So Scott Mcclellan had to ramble on about a "culture of life" and avoid the question.

But it's worth asking, if the pro-life movement isn't really about going after birth control, what a "culture of life" has to do with a question about contraception, anyway?

See, this is where I think we NEED to come out swinging with the GOP. They've been so busy trying to frame the abortion issue as "baby killing", why don't we have anyone on our side who is asking why the GOP wants to outlaw, for instance, the pill? And if not, why not- when the major "pro-life" organizations consider it an abortifacent? If they really want to make fertilized eggs citizens with rights under the first amendment, does that mean that folks working in IVF clinics will be brought up on mass murder charges? How about women with IUDs- "concealed murder weapons"?

Ask 'em. Point blank. MAKE them answer.

I'm sure you know this, too. I'm just ranting as well. Peace.