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.
So, I am convincing the Catholics around here to vote liberal Democrat? Okay, that is beyond weird. If asking why the great majority of Catholics vote Dem convinces conservative voting Catholics to vote Dem, somebody has dumped something in the Tiber.
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.
Thank you, Campion