Romney Holds Off Santorum By Eight Votes

CNN:

Last night the Iowa caucuses kicked off the first contest of the 2012 election season. In the end, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney beat late front-runner Rick Santorum by just eight votes in a contest that carried into the early hours of the morning.

I woke up at 12:30 last night and couldn't get back to sleep until 3:30.  Eventually I remembered that the Caucus was last night, so I turned on the TV.  Mistake.  The talking heads are morons.  Some of the stuff I heard was just ridiculous.  One Republican flak said Democrats would begin to turn Rick Santorum into a caricature.  I'm sorry, but Rick beat them to it:

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, whose strong base of evangelical Christian supporters has thrust him into contention in Iowa, said on Monday that he believes states should have the right to outlaw birth control and sodomy without the interference of the Supreme Court.
In an interview with Jake Tapper on ABC News, Santorum reiterated his opposition to the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling that prevented Connecticut from banning contraception.
“The state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that," he said. "It is not a constitutional right. The state has the right to pass whatever statutes they have. That's the thing I have said about the activism of the Supreme Court--they are creating rights, and it should be left up to the people to decide."
Santorum said he also opposes the Supreme Court's 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision striking down a ban on sodomy in Texas and 13 other states. Even though he would not personally vote for a ban on sodomy, he said, he thinks states should legally be able to pass them, because sodomy is not a constitutionally protected right.

WTF?  Does the Constitution guarantee the right to vaginal sex or is it just a government-allowed privilege?  How about those rights being claimed under the Ninth Amendment?  Did the Founders discuss the potential development of birth control in Philadelphis in the summer of 1787?  How do we know where they'd stand on that?  And seriously Rick, only the US Council of Catholic Bishops would consider a ban on birth control today, and the majority of Catholics would be opposed to the ban.  How is the Republican Party comprised of people who think the government should pass laws on what occurs in your bedroom, but that it shouldn't regulate what toxic pollutants industry pumps into the air that all of us breathe?  Is there a Constitutional right to mercury emissions?   I give up.