Posted on 01/01/2015 5:48:49 PM PST by navysealdad
I saw it on the Wikipedia deaths page. It’s curious that both the first GOP Governors since Reconstruction in AL (Guy Hunt) and SC (Edwards) largely won their elections due to the Democrat primary winners being stricken from the ballot. Unfortunately at the time, SC Governors weren’t allowed to seek a second term yet, so that was why Dem Dick Riley eased into the job in 1979 (and received more media coverage).
It’s too bad he didn’t challenge buffoonish Fritz Hollings in 1980 for the Senate seat.
RIP to Gov. Edwards.
And to think he wasn’t even supposed to win the primary over General Westmoreland.
Curious, the Almanac of Am. Politics 1976 edition covering that era, Barone didn’t even mention Westmoreland and had Edwards listed as winning the primary unopposed, which was not so (he spent more time covering the messy Dem primary situation — he did mention that Pug Ravenel had so pissed off the Dem legislature in his run for Governor, they refused to alter the law to allow him to bypass the 5 year required residency to run, which would’ve seen him win).
Of course, had Ravenel won and turned into some wild-eyed moonbat Dem, it’s almost certain a Republican (and not Dick Riley) would’ve won the Governorship in 1978, perhaps Edwards himself — and this time he’d have gotten his two terms. He did try two more times for office, against an almost-76 year young Thurmond in 1978 (losing by 11%) and became the first Democrat (in 1980) to lose the Charleston 1st (by 3%) since the 1800s to Tommy Hartnett. Of course, another Ravenel, a Republican, would win it 6 years later (their relation is unclear to me, perhaps distant cousins, though Pug was apparently of more modest means while the others were not so modest).
You guys probably already know but I am told by reliable sources that Bernardin was a member of the “Lavender Mafia”. He usually traveled with a priest who, after he died, left behind a ton of g*y porn and other unmentionable disgusting things.
Yes. He kept quieter about it than Rembert Weakland and some of the other gay bishops. But he had a major role in moving the gay mafia into the Church—perverting the seminary leadership, refusing admission to straight applicants to the priesthood, and so forth. And the Major Media loved him and constantly quoted him.
That said, Bernadine did steadfastly claim to be pro-life, while making the ludicrous argument that abortion was on the same level as whatever the trendy feel good liberal giveaway program of the week was. In that way, you could make a valid argument that Bernadine did even more damage to the issue than Cuomo did. Dick Durbin and many others have been inspired by the "seamless garment" theory and used to make arguments like "well, if Republicans are morally opposed to abortion, why do they oppose giving drivers licenses to illegals? Denying social justice to illegals is just as bad as not giving a baby up for adoption" blah blah blah
The worst of the lot, IMO, is a rather obscure political/religious figure: "Father" Robert Drinan was some marxist Catholic "priest" from Massachuttes who got elected to Congress as a DemonRat. Rather than be a Lipinski-type "socially conservative" Dem, he complied a solid pro-abortion record and was in open defiance of the Catholic Church's sanctity of life beliefs, which is scandalous for a priest. Drinan had the gall to actually make the argument that he "felt" abortion was infanticide but HAD TO vote for abortion on demand because the constitution enshrined it as a GUARANTEED right as shown in Roe v. Wade. In an ideal world, Drinan would have been excommuicated. Eventually, Pope John Paul II got him out of politics, but only by issuing a ruling that active-duty priests in North America are not to hold partisan government offices.
Anyway, back on topic. The funny thing about Berandine is that he died in 1996, so I should remember him well. But I have only the vaguest memory of his tenure as Archbishop of Chicago.
An old friend of my pastor from his seminary days, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone (appointed to San Francisco!), would make an ideal Cardinal, IMO. We certainly need more conservative Cardinals. But I'm not optimistic. Bishop Paprocki of Springfield would have made the ideal successor to Cardinal George. Instead, we got some squishy liberal from out west that had never been to Chicago.
Its no surprise that these Marxist "Catholic" Democrat politicians feel emboldened to do whatever they want and claim to be good Catholics. But in same vein, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are still Baptist "Reverends" in good standing, and nobody can even locate the "church" they supposed minister to.
Paprocki is who my mom wanted. She’s met him, I believe.
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