I don’t think the Protestants and the other non-Catholics realize that this ain’t no joking matter. If we’re going to pull Western civilization out of the gutter it’s sinking into, it will be very important to have a strong, conservative, faithful Pope. And the same thing among Protestant leaders.
If half the Catholics in this country voted for Obama, it’s because they have been poorly led and poorly instructed for the past 40 years or so. There was steady movement in the Church from the Democrat party—which used to be the party of the working class to which most Catholics belonged—to the Republican party, owing mainly to Roe v. Wade and the movement of Democrat politicians toward all kinds of anti-Christian positions. But that movement has slowed, I think.
We desperately need better leadership: A good, strong Pope who will appoint better bishops, who will clean up the seminaries and the nunneries and the Catholic schools. That won’t just help the Church and its members; it will also help the entire country and Western Civilization in general.
"Steady movement into the Republican Party"? What about the movement away from freedom and liberty and constitutionality that we've seen over the course of multiple elections, even in the Republican Party? If someone claims that Catholics have become more Republican over the last forty years, then we can either give them credit for the sorry mess the Republican Party is in, or we castigate them for being attracted to it.
And on the subject of laughing matters, if there's something ridiculous to laugh at, it'll continue to get laughs - so long as I'm on watch.