[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for the ping.

I just heard the top-of-the-hour news from CBS radio. "Some say Pope Benedict XVI is too staunchly conservative to lead the Catholic Church into the 21st Century."

Surprise, surprise. The Democrats have just suffered another loss, and so soon after Kerry, too. The scumbag liberals won't be happy until the Catholic Church and the Pope give their blessing to abortion-on-demand, gay marriage, gun control, massive tax increases, and socialist healthcare.

[Dog Gone]

While conservative catholics are rejoicing in the election of the new pope, and rightly so, nobody should be under any illusion that he sees the world as conservative Americans do. He was very outspoken against the Iraq war and our involvement in it. He said such things should be left up to the UN.

[RobbyS]

Talk about self-hating gays. The guy must be very unhappy.

[L.N. Smithee]

But the CNN hostette conveniently failed to read the remainder of the man's post, which astute viewers could see on the screen: "The good news is that Ratzinger is 78 and should die soon."

KPIX-TV (San Francisco) reporter Tony Russomanno, in a live segment more slanted than the city's steepest hills, said something to the effect of "It shouldn't be long before another conclave." Before that statement, he interviewed way-out way-left former Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong (showing on-screen his new book, The Sins of Scripture), and said that in the struggle of the 'progressives against the regressives, the regressives won.'

[Salvation]

Unbelievable!