This doesn't surprise me in the least. This has been essentially the tone and content of progressive rhetoric for the last six months. At this point, a significant portion of the population quite literally believes that the Republican party, as we speak, desperately wants to ban contraception, and is only prevented from doing so because they don't have enough power in government. They believe that conservatives, almost to a man, hate and are afraid of women and female sexuality, and are conspiring together in a "war on women" to bring society back into (and I quote) "the Dark Ages" of theocratic, chauvinistic, gay-hating superstition. Because of this imminent assault, they feel that they have to rally the troops now by any means necessary, and to frighten the prudish conservatives into silence they have to be as crude and openly sexual as they possibly can, at all times.

And this is not merely a desperate, out-of-touch political narrative foisted on the people by the political management--this is what is believed by the rank-and-file. This image was created and shared millions upon millions of times throughout the Internet before the Obama campaign even noticed it existed.

Thus is modern American politics. I hope for the love of God that Europe is not in this state.