[Meldrim]

"You have to understand that the Republicans have not and are not putting up pro-life conservatives"

Have not? Avi Nelson? Ray Shamey? Jack Conway? etc. They run they lose. Two cycles ago Marty Meehan ran against a prolife, bronze star winner, successful businessman...and Marty walked away with it.

When Studds ran he had the Cape and Plymouth county. Only after redictricting was Delahunt able to run from Quincy.

Go to Saint Albert the Great in Weymouth if you want to see the types of knuckleheads Sanorum is talking about. The problem is that there are too many "Catholics" who lack the intellectual honesty to go the the Episcopal or Unitarian Church where they belong.

Roman Catholicism requires discipline and sacrifice. It is similar to the military in that respect. The voting patterns reveal the true faith.

[HostileTerritory]

There are plenty of cafeteria Catholics in this state, sure. I don't disagree.

But when you have the power of incumbency (Marty Meehan won big, how many Congressmen DON'T win big in reelections?) and the mixed messages the Republican party sends, when the Democrats are so powerful that the pro-lifers prefer to stay inside the tent with Kennedy and Frank instead of shivering out in the cold, who can be surprised at these results?

[Radix]

Delahunt "won" because a judge disrupted the Democrat primary process.

I think that Delahunt is the stupidest rep. in Congress from Mass. I could be wrong because they all keep saying dumb things almost regularly.

Delahunt winning was incredibly a good thing relatively speaking. Johnson (the Democrat loser) was and remains a serious Commie.