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To: familyop

You get a grip. "American Catholics, why did most of you vote for Clinton!"

Although I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, that's also a legitimate question. I'm Catholic, and I for one just don't get that, either. Maybe they believe that pap that Jesus was a liberal/socialist/communist (ignoring that liberal/socialist/communist thought has been used as an excuse to butcher about 150,000,000 people in the last 60 years). The ironies include that leftist support basically everything that most Christians and Catholics proclaim to oppose, from the "right" to kill unborn babies to pornography and assaults on the traditional family.

Frankly, I think it's also just cultural -- Catholics since the days of FDR have been Catholic, and that trait just gets passed down from generation to generation.


18 posted on 01/21/2006 4:57:28 PM PST by piytar
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To: piytar

Because being Jewish or Catholic is more of a "Status symbol" than anything, atleast for some. A lot don't even practice but like having the tag...


19 posted on 01/21/2006 5:00:04 PM PST by HereComesTheGOP
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To: piytar

Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel for most American Jews. Dumbocraps' and other moonbats' language sounds more and more like OBL's (and vice versa). Heck, OBL's last tape was largely a reiteration of the Dumbocraps' talking points. Read something written by Michael Moore and an English translation of something OBL is saying these days, and it's frankly hard to tell who wrote which one. That might just be enough to wake many Jews up to the fact that OBL and leftists are on basically the same side, and it's not a side that American Jews should support.

As for most of my fellow the Catholics, I've largely lost hope.


21 posted on 01/21/2006 5:03:40 PM PST by piytar
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To: piytar
Catholics since the days of FDR have been Catholic

Huh?

24 posted on 01/21/2006 5:08:21 PM PST by T. Buzzard Trueblood (left unchecked, Saddam Hussein...will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." Sen. Hillary Clinton)
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To: piytar

You made some good points.

A high percentage of people from Protestant families (too high) also vote for Democrats for the same reasons. My quote was only one example of many to make the point. And I wrote "most"--something the author of the stupid piece above didn't bother with. Why are so many columnists and posters here so obsessed with about 70% percent of an American group that only comprises about 2% of our population?

The Democrat Party is comprised of people from all kinds of religious backgrounds, and very few of them are Jewish (because few people in our country are Jewish).

Answer, IMO: authors like the idiot who wrote the piece above are trying to split the Orthodox/Republican Jewish voters off from our Republican Party and rile Christian Republicans up against Jewish people in general. Most such dishonest defamation pieces are written by the pantywaist, Buchanan Euro-brigade--a very small fringe element in our politics.


27 posted on 01/21/2006 5:09:42 PM PST by familyop
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