You needn’t be clairvoyant to deduce what the Democratic Party wants to run on in 2016. It really doesn’t matter whether their nominee is Hillary Clinton or someone else. Democrats won’t be campaigning on the thriving economy under President Obama, global stability under American leadership, the successful routing of al Qaeda or Obamacare. No, the Democratic Party is the ladies’ party now — dependent completely on the lopsided votes of single females for their electoral success. To the degree possible, 2016 will be about women’s sex lives and who should pay for IUDs.

Republicans have perfectly good responses to these juvenile arguments, starting with “buy your own blankety-blank contraceptives” and moving up to sensible health care reform. Still, Republicans (and grown-ups) are not well-served if the election revolves around condoms and morning after pills.