FORGET JOBS: The 2012 Election Is About The Culture War - Michael Brendan Dougherty

http://www.businessinsider.com/forget-jobs-the-2012-election-is-about-the-culture-war-2012-2

No delegates? No problem.

Santorum's win is the greatest thing to happen in politics in a long time. No longer are we in fear of a boring spring of Romney, Romney, Romney, but we will be treated instead to a parade of discord and recrimination amongst the GOP. The culture warriors, for so long given lip service as long as it benefited the white shoe wing financially, have taken the wheel of the bus and are intent on driving this bastard over the cliff to prove a point. The point is something to do with anger, but not quite mentionable in polite company.

Yesterday we saw the 9th Circuit Court overrule the popular referendum in California that banned gay marriage. Rick Santorum, who defined his career in the Senate as the point man for conservatives in the culture war is suddenly surging in the GOP nomination contest. The nation and its media had a week-long freakout over a minuscule $700,000 grant from the Komen Foundation to Planned Parenthood. And now the Obama Administration and the Catholic Church are in open conflict over whether religious institutions should be dragged into the bedroom to pay for their employees' contraceptives of choice. 
No one is saying that jobs are the only issue that matter anymore.