America's conservative Catholics are on the warpath. Republicans should be courting them.

Michael Voris is the favourite talking head of the Catholic Taliban, that motley crew of traditionalists who believe in way-out stuff like “abortion is evil” and “Jesus rose on the third day”. He runs his own online TV station in Michigan and has hair so unreal it could be miraculous. In an age when the average priest seems to get the life – and the theology – sucked out of him at seminary, Voris speaks with clarity and humour. This is the man who dismissed liberal nuns as Marxists “embracing lesbianism”, “yoga” and “witchcraft”. He became a viral sensation after he posted a video arguing that democracy had been corrupted by the stupidity of the voters. It even caught the attention of professional talking monkey Richard Dawkins. Upon first seeing it, the evolutionist thought, “Surely nobody could be quite so blatantly arrogant, saying more or less explicitly that 'Nobody should be allowed to vote unless they agree with me!' But [evidence suggests] that Michael Voris is a bona fide Catholic activist, not a satirist lampooning Catholic idiocy and arrogance.” What a breakthrough for modern science! We now know that apes can appreciate irony. [SNIP]

It's only recently that political scientists have identified a coherent conservative reaction among the laity. American Catholics have traditionally voted Democrat; when Catholic Jack Kennedy ran for the presidency in 1960, he took 78 percent of his coreligionists’ votes. But since the 1980s, that percentage has dropped (to 54 percent in 2008) and the Catholic vote has splintered....

....studies of the 2004 results identified a new hardcore vote of roughly 16 percent of Catholics (nearly 10 million people) who attend church more than once a week and identify as ideologically “conservative”. George Bush targetted these people and increased his percentage of the conservative

"Really? 52% is a "great majority"? Your group it seems is willfully aiming to smear the GOP."

The absurdity of your remarks continues to escape you, my FRiend. That anyone in a club which claimed to be biblically based could possibly vote homosexual agenda, abortion support, union thuggery, hate-mongering, open borders, fiscal insanity, etc. (the Dem platforms) is severely mentally challenged. Please explain the 52% of your group doing so.

"Incidentally, sneers, venom, and name-calling aimed at Catholics and Catholicism on a conservative Republican message board is not going to convince a single one of them to vote conservative. Quite the opposite, in fact."

That's the goal, to have any Catholic who might stray onto FR while considering not voting democrat run into as much anti-Catholic bunk as possible. The democrat fascist line has been that Republicans and Conservatives will always attack Catholics just like they've always claimed that the same two groups are racist. Anyone with ten minutes to spare can find the facts out and the facts prove that it has always been the democrat fascist party that has been dedicated to racism, anti-Catholicism, and eugenics driven fascism. Always.

Fifth columnists play their little games and stir up controversies, divisions, and disagreements, where they wouldn't otherwise exist. You can always pick them out because every day they troll along with the same sort of crap until they get a bite. If they're ignored, some of them will even begin to talk to themselves under other names and make ever more absurd and vile statements in response to their own posted article. Whatever it takes to spread the idea that Catholics aren't welcome in Republican and Conservative circles, Blacks aren't welcome, and immigrants aren't welcome. That's their agenda pure and simple, not any disagreement with Catholicism, or with black folks, or a desire to solve the immigration problems.

Getting Republicans and Conservatives to believe and pass along the democrat propaganda lies about Bush worked so well why would the stop using an approach that works? People stayed home during the primaries and the election due to the propaganda efforts centered on the web and we got Barry, now they're trying to fracture what they know is a huge block of people who will never vote for Barry. If they can get them to stay home or fragment into third party madness again, they win.

That's the goal, to have any Catholic who might stray onto FR while considering not voting democrat run into as much anti-Catholic bunk as possible. The democrat fascist line has been that Republicans and Conservatives will always attack Catholics just like they've always claimed that the same two groups are racist....it has always been the democrat fascist party that has been dedicated to racism, anti-Catholicism, and eugenics driven fascism. Always....

....Fifth columnists play their little games and stir up controversies, divisions, and disagreements, where they wouldn't otherwise exist. You can always pick them out because every day they troll along with the same sort of crap until they get a bite. If they're ignored, some of them will even begin to talk to themselves under other names and make ever more absurd and vile statements in response to their own posted article. Whatever it takes to spread the idea that Catholics aren't welcome in Republican and Conservative circles, Blacks aren't welcome, and immigrants aren't welcome. That's their agenda pure and simple, not any disagreement with Catholicism, or with black folks, or a desire to solve the immigration problems.

What - there are Republican Conservative pro-eugenic racists actively posting on FR, trying to keep Catholics from voting Republican? Or just "democrat fascists", posing as Republican Conservative pro-eugenic racists on FR, trying to keep Catholics from voting Republican? I got lost as to whether their "agenda, pure and simple" was a disagreement with Catholicism, blacks, and immigrants or not. So even though they're "dedicated to racism, anti-Catholicism, and eugenics driven fascism", they don't really disagree? Your post ends with saying they don't.

And while we're at it, who are these Catholics posting on FR who are "considering not voting Democrat"?

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