Mitt Romney trouncing Rick Santorum even among Catholics

Gingrich is fundamentally about Gingrich. I remember in 1995, after the 1994 victory, when some Wisconsin Republican gay US Representative started making noises about how the Pubblies need to embrace the Gay agenda.

Gingrich signed on to it. Until he saw that it warn’t goin’ nowhere.

I imagine Gingrich’s conversion is genuine. He may be repentant for his past adulteries.

But he’s got an ego the size of a supertanker. Henry Hyde used to say that he was 50% a genius and 50% crazy. He is. I’ll vote for him if he’s nominated, after he finally achieves the Monster Surge that all the Fringrichers keep hoping, hoping, hoping, hoping, hoping for.

But he’s mercurial. I don’t think he gets it at all about contraception.

And contraception is what created the huge fault line among Catholics. Catholics who accept contraception just don’t get a bunch of other issues. Contraception separated sex from procreation and made possible the sexual revolution. It lies behind every social pathology we suffer from today: divorce, fatherlessness, pornography, women who voluntarily become sluts tc. Paul VI was farsighted when he predicted all of that.

I don’t think Gingrich gets it. I’ll give him credit for standing with us on the religious liberty issue. He’d be an awful lot better than Romney. But he’s going to end up playing a Huckabeeby role and guaranteeing that we get Romney.

Who won’t defend us on religious liberty. I’ll vote for him because even the squishes he probably will appoint to the SCOTUS might be modestly better than the flaming haters of truth Obama will appoint. You take what you can get.

I don’t doubt that Gingrich’s personal conversion is authentic. I just don’t think he fully understands the culture-issues. He’s a million times better than Romney.

But he’s going to hand Romney the nomination on a silver platter.

No “they” don’t. They refer thousands of times to “Evangelical vote.”

Voting always has the Protestant category and often has an Evangelical category.

These are all different churches with vastly different ways, from Bible based Christian denominations to lesbian led Priest denominations, that is why over the years it made sense to have a measure for the more conservative Christian denominations, isn't the Catholic church supposed to be one of those? Would you like it if the Episcopalians were pushed over to Catholic instead of shoved in with the Southern Baptists?

The Catholic church is a single church under a single authority, it only includes baptized Catholics in it, Southern Baptists are the second largest church in America, they are independent and don't have a Pope and include people like President Clinton, Al Gore, but do you really want to compare their vote to the Catholic vote?

No the Southern Baptists and others who come under "Protestant" are thrown in with the black 95% Democrat voting churches, the lesbian led Lutheran and Episcopal churches and so on.

Even this pool of generic Evangelicals is a massive pool of various denominations, and are a larger pool than the baptized Catholics.

Bottom line:
The entire total for Protestant America comes out as a Republican voting block, the total for the single, baptized Catholic Church comes out as a Democrat voting block.

It’s got to be his invisible wife who does the actual homeschooling, btw, even though he stole the services from the State of Pennsylvania and got them to pay a $50,000 fine on his behalf. And if he’s such a great Catholic, why aren’t his kids going to Catholic school instead of getting the State of PA curriculum? Sorry, but I’m a very conservative Catholic, and I think he’s just an ambitious hypocrite with a vicious streak.

Your post was pretty vicious, actually, attacking the man personally and even the appearance of his children. My interactions with you have been almost exclusively positive in the past, so I can't comprehend how a good Catholic man like you could write something so shallow and nasty. Had I written something like that, I'd be headed for the confessional.

How many Catholic homeschooling dads do you actually know? Nearly all the ones I know are good, upstanding gentlemen and personally, I'd rather have ANY of them leading the country as compared to the politicians we have in DC.

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