[jobim]

...it does a disservice to Catholic discourse and places a restriction on Catholic voters which the Church has explicitly denied. Catholic voters must indeed vote with an informed Catholic conscience, but such a conscience cannot be neatly captured by the five issues - important as they are - enumerated by the Voter's Guide.

This is so contorted that I assumed he had another agenda. Is he really proposing a vote for a pro-abortion, etc candidate who was against the war? That position is untenable, as you say. That's why I assumed he would either vote for a fringe candidate who was right on all of the issues (as he sees it) or not vote at all. At least I believe that is what the NOR espouses. But as adults we are compelled to look truthfully at candidates who have a chance at winning, and vote where the damage to the non-negotiables is least.