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"Thanks to Democrats like your crowd giving the GOP a bad-name. Congratulations."

Thanks to Democrats like my crowd giving the GOP a bad-name? Did you go to a Catholic grade school? Read your post...it is not even a sentence.

The problem we are addressing is why Catholics tend to vote Democrat (a known fact). How does a group that claims to espouse biblical morals (a true stretch to begin with), wax eloquent about "following" Jesus, vote with the union power thugs, abortion promoters, homosexual agenda advocates, fiscal insanity and the destruction of America?

Whatever you might have meant about my "crowd", you can rest assured they all distance themselves from folks that hold these views and they vote consistent with that perspective. The Catholics do not. Explain, please.

Why, my FRiend, can we count on Catholics siding with these anti-Christian views in the first place?

The problem we are addressing is why Catholics tend to vote Democrat

Obviously, the idea that "catholics" tend to vote Democrat is, as proven by this article and Alex's research, an urban legend. Real committed Catholics (just like any other committed, i.e., "born again" Christian) vote pro-life.

....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 targeted these people and increased his percentage of the conservative Catholic vote....

The "catholics" who vote for culture of death Democrats aren't really Catholic at all. They are more like cultural/ethnic non-practicing Jews, with no real belief in their own religion. In fact, all these polls of "catholics" rarely distinguish non-practicing "catholics" from real Catholics as Alex has done.

So we can dispense with the old tired canard that "catholics" vote Democrat.

Well, "catholics" might vote Democrat.

But real Catholics vote pro-life.

Unfortunately for us real Catholics, many of our priests and bishops are just "catholics." And that makes it exceedingly difficult to defend real Catholicism from these slurs.

The problem we are addressing is why Catholics tend to vote Democrat

See Alex's post #19. Catholics who attend Mass weekly voted for McCain over Obama.

The sweat-the-details Catholics, a subset of weekly Mass-attendees whom Alex says is about 10 million people (so about 2/3rds the size of the Southern Baptists, not chump change at all), are very conservative.

As for the rest, if they can't obey when the Church tells them to go to Mass weekly, they won't take their (alleged, claimed-but-still-fictional) Catholicism into the voting booth, either. Treat them as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.

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.