Yawn...New England Catholics voted for Obama and other ‘pro-abortion’ candidates in overwhelming numbers in 2012...a ‘pro-life’ stance won’t do squat for her around here.
After amnesty for illegal immigrants passes, there’s no way that U.S. conservatism can, ever, recover! How does U.S. conservatism, successfully, “get around” all of the new pro-left voters who are created from endless numbers of illegal immigrants who keep coming to the U.S.? It won’t matter what happens in ‘16, because the left will be way too dominant, by then!
She might get the Church going Catholics, but she never lost them.
The other 2/3 of Catholics, the Easter/Christmas and non mass goers: not so much.
Roughly half the Catholics around here voted for Obama. I think she’d be wasting her time.
Yes. I’m a Catholic myself. Sarah Palin’s parents left the Catholic Church in Alaska, bringing her with them, into a Pentacostal Church.
I got the impression, when I read her autobiography, that it was because those were the days of “the spirit of Vatican II,” with a lot of dissident priests and nuns in the Church, and evidently their local Catholic Church was not a good one.
I sympathize with her. She appears to have been faithful to her new church, and to have kept values that are basically similar to those of both faithful Evangelicals and Catholics. As a Catholic, I believe it is the one true Church, with true Sacraments, so I have not thought of leaving even with all those problems, which certainly have decreased the efficacy of several of the parishes I have been in. In any case, although I disagree with her decision to change, I can certainly understand and sympathize with it. And I can work with any Christian—Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, Pentacostal—provided that they remain true to the basics of Christian faith. I think Sarah does.
Sarah Palin doesn’t try to rub anyone’s noses in religion, or to say that they have to join her church, but she clearly reflects the kind of moral reliabilty that faithful membership in such a church brings. She’s not going to suddenly come out in favor of gay marriage or abortion, as people like Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich have done. She knows the difference between right and wrong, and sticks to her principles. That’s good enough for me!
RE: Is Sarah Palin Building A Catholic Support Base For a 2016 Run?
First question she has to answer is this -— WHY DID MOST CATHOLICS VOTE FOR OBAMA EVEN WHEN :
1) He supports a bill that FORCES Catholic institutions to pay for birth control, abortificents for people like Sandra Fluke and her ilk.
2) He is pro-choice to a point where as Illinois State senator, he was probably the ONLY legislator who refused to support the born-alive babies act.
What kind of “Catholics” are these and why are there so many of them?
If they think and vote this way, how does she expect to gain their support?
If this is still considered a Christian nation as they claim, it is plain to see that Catholics and protestants both voted for pro gay and pro abortionists.
First the comment “McCain Suggest A Pro-Life Catholic Could Have Won In 2012,” is ridiculous. A Pro-Life Catholic did run and lost to the left liberal Mitt Romney.
Second, Sarah Palin for POTUS...just another loser candidate.
Third, McCain’s suggestions for candidates are always going to be losers.
Not interested in anyone who saw what we were facing in 2012 and decided to sit out who had a legit shot at winning the nomination. Chris Christie, Sarah Palin are two that are dead to me.