[magisterium]

Very good, as far as it goes. We must stop, though, the implicit carte-blanche the GOP seems to get from the Religious Right. Increasingly, the Republicans are moving away from us, and are more and more inclined to simply give lip service to the pro-life planks of their own platform. After this election, "something" must be done (in time for the 2010 midterm election) to pressure the RNC into moving back to center-right, instead of their current position of center-left. A new party is not out of the question, it should be clear, if they don't follow through. They have been foisting poor to mediocre candidates on us for far too long already. They won't respond to us at all in an election or two if they can always count on us to hold our noses and simply vote for them as the perennial "lesser of two evils."

I believe it is time to get the Republicans to respect the core of their Party again, or make it plain that alternatives to them will be sought and/or formulated by the 2012 election. Something must be done. The culture is pulling away from a pro-life mindset, and, in another election cycle or two, we will not have the numbers to sway the RNC to do the right thing; neither will we have the numbers sufficient to be able to make the needed "converts" out there to reinvigorate our ranks. The focus there is both on raw politics and evangelization. Failing in those efforts, we will begin to go the way of the dodo bird in less than ten years. Across the board, from pro-life issues to simple considerations of basic freedom, the price of failure will be very high indeed.

[pgyanke]

I don’t disagree with you. I used the RNC platform for comparison simply because it is the main competitor. I’m not seeking the bishops’ endorsement of the RNC, by any means. I simply want them to point out that Democrats have planted themselves firmly in the “anti-Catholic” position. No Catholic should vote for them. They will either cease their support for intrinsic evil or fall into irrelevancy as they alienate 25% of the electorate.

I would hope no other political party would want to repeat their mistake. That’s what I call real change.