The fact that you are protesting so strongly serves as an encouragement.
I must be getting close to the truth here.
Don't forget that most (if not all) of these men are converts FROM Protestantism. I don't know all of their conversion stories, but Scott Hahn's conversion was fueled predominately with the way that the Mass relates to the book of Revelation, and the Eucharistic aspects of John 6, particularly how it supports the Real Presence.
Although this is a sweeping generalization, I'll make it anyways: it seems that the overarching majority of converts from Catholicism to Protestantism do so because they have little knowledge of Christ, His Church, or His Word and find any/all of them in Protestantism (and yes, that is a black mark for the Catholic Church). On the other hand, many converts coming to the Catholic Church do so because they not only have a deep relationship with Christ, but they hope to deepen it through the Sacraments;
I must be getting close to the truth here.
No, not really; I'd elaborate, but that would just be reinventing the wheel. I think a good healthy dose of Newman is in order, because he's dealt with the issue already:
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Please Note: The first edition of this was written while Newman was an Anglican, and quite content to stay within the Via Media. It was only after (and largely due to) writing this work that he ultimately joined the Catholic Church.
Great; the more blatantly falsifiable your posts are, the closer to the truth you must be? Only in the sense, perhaps, that the more obvious your faleshoods, the more apparent the truth must be.