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To: sitetest

I made my coherent statement of fact.

“Catholics and liberal is not two different things, the majority of Catholics are part of the liberal coalition.”


47 posted on 12/03/2012 11:53:14 AM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb Fischer's successful run in Nebraska)
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To: ansel12
Dear ansel12,

Actually, you made two different assertions there.

The first assertion is that “Catholics and liberal is not two different things [sic]...”

You equate Catholics with liberals (Or, perhaps, liberalism. Your syntax is fractured; the precise meaning thus is not quite obvious. But the gist is.). Your statement makes an identity between them. You say that they are not two different things. That assertion is false. Catholics are not so readily labeled. Some Catholics are liberals, some aren't.

“... the majority of Catholics are part of the liberal coalition.”

This is a different statement from the first. The first posits and identity between Catholics and liberal, which, as we've already seen, is false.

The second part doesn't mean the same as, “Catholics and liberal is not two different things...[sic]”

Thus, your statement is incoherent.

If you'd have stuck to those two somewhat incoherently juxtaposed clauses, one could chalk it up to poor writing skills, and just say, “What he meant was that a majority of Catholics are liberal - the first part was just poorly-written hyperbole.”

But then you talk about the “Catholic vote,” meaning that there is a relatively-unified, single bloc of voters. You even say:

“The Catholic denomination has traditionally been a dependable democrat voting block [sic],...”

As demonstrated, Catholics don't vote as a bloc. You don't show any understanding of the word “bloc.”


sitetest

48 posted on 12/03/2012 12:26:17 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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