The Big Takeaway From Last Night's GOP Primaries?

That's easy -- if the Republicans want to continue their War on Contraception, they'll do so at their peril:

CBS's exit polls show 37 percent of Catholic voters in Michigan supporting [Santorum] and 43 percent supporting [Romney]. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul won 8 percent and 9 percent respectively.

Meanwhile, CNN exit polls in Arizona show Romney besting Santorum among Catholic voters by a margin of 41 percent to 35 percent.

Remember -- these were GOP primaries; and even though Michigan was open to members of other parties, six in ten who voted there were Republican. One would think that Santorum, the poster boy for the anti-contraception movement, would have crushed as far as the Republican Catholic vote is concerned.

The fact that he lost the Catholics to Romney in both states should be setting off warning bells in the GOP about their War on Contraception. If it's a losing issue in GOP primaries, then they're going to get killed on this in the General.

I still expect them to drop this issue soon. It's true that Republicans suck at governing and have shitty ideas when it comes to policy, but I doubt the party is going to commit political suicide over The Pill.