Republicans almost never win the Catholic vote (five times in history), and they will never win the Hispanic Catholic vote, at least without moving far to the left.
I would agree with you, were it not for the fact that the Obama regime has gone to war with Catholics. The way to take advantage of that isn’t by moving to the left, but by defending religious freedom from leftist government. Whether or not we get a majority of the Catholic vote doesn’t matter. We need to increase our influence with people who will vote their values. When the moral majority turned the South, a lot of lifelong Democrats became life long conservatives.
I’m a conservative Catholic and have been disgusted by the Church’s social justice foolishness. In church last week I heard a very stongly worded letter read by the priest that sounded like a call to arms. I have never heard that in a Mass before. Not even a few months ago when the initial Catholic consternation resulted in another letter from the bishops. The agitation is growing and now that the Court has not stopped it, I believe millions of my formerly blind Catholic brethren are opening their eyes.