Posted on 09/27/2012 5:09:59 PM PDT by chessplayer
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama has climbed from trailing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by 4 points among Catholic voters in the weeks leading up to the Republican National Convention to currently leading Romney by six points among Catholic voters, according to the Gallup tracking poll.
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I'm with you. First, many of these polls are just getting stupid.Furthermore, and I'm trying to be as objective as possible, I don't see how anyone save the hardcore drones can find this fool likeable. Every time I hear his voice I just want to puke.
I swear to GOD, if the country reelects this totally unqualified lazyass Marxist bum, I'm about ready to renounce my citiaenship.
I believe it's being translated to the folks as, "Romney was caught on a hidden camera saying he doesn't care about 47% of the American people." Unfortunately, that interpretation is readily accepted because people already thought Romney was out-of-touch to the average American.
The real meaning of the video is hardcore inside-baseball politics dealing with how you need to appeal to a small percentage of independents in an election and such. But only the wonkiest people are ever going to be able to understand it on those terms, even if Mitt explained it over and over.
Best he can probably hope for is that it's forgotten by voters over time like the Jeremiah Wright video was.
Obama is marginally better on the issue of abortion? Obama would let a baby who has exited the birth canal alive die. People who favor abortion-on-demand are actually marginally better than Obama on the issue of abortion and I don’t think Romney favors abortion-on-demand.
I tell everyone who asks me that voting for Obama would be a mortal sin and the ones who look at me dumbfounded get an earful of Obama’s stance on abortion.
I tell everyone who asks me that voting for Obama would be a mortal sin and the ones who look at me dumbfounded get an earful of Obama’s stance on abortion.
I was so disappointed in this. Just when he looked like some of our bishops had grown a pair, Dolan completely undermines the effort.
I completely distrust Dolan after that fiasco. He is unsuited to lead the church in the US for the coming persecution; and yes, it is surely coming.
There will be much to answer for by the "leadership" of the church in the last 50 years. I
Of course I don’t know the person in question; and of course God alone knows the human heart.
So forgetting this specific case, I would just say that evil is most pernicious when it is disguised as good.
Satan (yes he is real) is most effective not as Black Sabbath or AC/DC, but as a sweet old lady or a attractive young politician who reads eloquently from a teleprompter.
I’m not buying into that farce.
If that's really what you got out of reading my posts, well you are even more dim than I already thought.
The bad polling validates my believe that R/R are running a lackluster campaign, and backs up my contention that Obama is going to be hard to beat because a majority of Americans WANT to like him. Ignoring bad poll data does not help us overcome either of these obstacles.
Well, he did while he was governor of Massachusetts. Romneycare included a provision giving taxpayer assistance to anyone who wanted an abortion for any reason, and as was predictable Mass. residents now can get abortions free, at taxpayer expense. Romney also appointed a number of leftist judges, including one who had worked closely with Planned Parenthood.
More recently, Romney has said he was pro-life. But he has also recently said that he approves of taxpayer funding for abortion for women who claim rape. And he is weak on the usual life and health of the mother exceptions--which can be expanded easily to cover any and all abortions.
I'm NOT saying that any good Catholic can vote for Obama. Definitely not. He clearly is even worse than Romney. He delights in the idea of throwing born-alive babies into the trash or out on the roof to die in the sun.
But I'm not sure that good Catholics can vote for Romney, either. He is a gay marriage pioneer as well as a taxpayer funded abortion pioneer. Whether or not to vote for Romney is up to them and their consciences, since he is probably somewhat better than Obama on this issue. But Romney was a damn poor choice to foist on Catholic voters, and he makes it a lot harder to argue the pro-life case. Strictly speaking, I don't believe that thoughtful Catholics can vote for either one of them--and that is extremely disturbing.
My wife agrees with you and will most likely vote third party this election. I just can't do it. Obama has been such a terrible president he needs to go. The Middle East pretty much solidified it for me. The way I see it, I can't do anything about abortion this election, BUT my vote can still save Israel.
I realized long ago after being raised one that the majority of Catholics are pseudo-Christian anyway and are hard-wired to the Democrat Party. A very good friend of mine who was the most anti-abortion crusader I know (never missed a march in front of an abortion clinic) never dreamed of not voting the for a rat candidate. That never made sense to me.
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