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Catholics: The Universally Desired Voting Block
Tim Rutten has some interesting commentary over at the LA Times about that crucial voting block, the Catholics. It seems these days that church and state are intersecting more than ever. Democrats, who have mercilessly ridiculed the religious right in recent years trot out their Catholic politicians each election cycle in order to perpetuate the lie that voting for pro-choice candidates can be compatible with Church teachings. That is a lie of course. Catholics believe that life begins at conception and thus there can be no moral “choice” to end that life. Bringing out leading Catholic Democrats like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democrat Vice Presidential Nominee Joe Biden is meant to obscure these facts. Abortion is a deeply religious issue and you can not have it both ways. At this point, Democrats wish that the issue would disappear, but it would be silly for the Republicans to allow that. Wedge issues are critical in close elections and the Republicans have an edge on the most powerful of them all: pro-life and pro-gun.
JOE adds, unhelpfully: Catholicism, living up to its name once again.
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