The Catholic Vote in 2012

The Catholic Vote in 2012
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, November 28, 2011

The so-called Catholic vote usually produces a winner in presidential elections. The exception was in the year 2000 when a majority of Catholics in the country voted for Al Gore. However, thankfully a majority of Catholics in the state of Florida voted for George Bush. In 2008 the Catholic vote for Obama was 54%. If the President received 50% of the vote in 2012, he will be reelected. There is an interesting article in Insight Scoop: The Ignatius Press Blog – Fri. Nov. 18, 2011 – Michael Gerson thinks Obama’s ‘Catholic strategy is in shambles:’ I (Carl Olson) thinks he’s wrong.

Michael Gerson: “Now the conscience protections of Catholics are under assault, particularly by the Department of Health and Human Services. And Obama’s Catholic strategy is in shambles… Sebelius is becoming a political embarrassment at an inconvenient time. It will be significantly harder for Obama to repeat his appeal to Catholic voters while a part of his administration is at war with Catholic leaders and Catholic belief…”

Carl Olson: “Although not a Catholic, he (Obama) saw he could take up and tweak the playbook employed so successfully by the late Ted Kennedy and other “pro-choice Catholics”, who use the language of “social justice” and “choice” and “freedoms” and “privacy” to deflect from his core stances, which added up to the most pro-abortion platform ever held by a presidential candidate… Obama used and employed Catholics … Douglas Kmiec, who assured Catholics that Obama was almost as Catholic as the Pope, and Fr. Thomas Reese, who gave cover to Pres. Obama prior to 2009 visit to Notre Dame, come to mind. Toss in the entire staff of National Catholic Reporter for good measure.

Comments to Carl’s article: 1) Candidate Obama knew – and this is essential – that he could not win over serious, practicing, orthodox Catholics, but he also didn’t care, because he knew the majority of Catholics in the U.S. are not serious, practicing, orthodox Catholics. 2) The actual long-term “Catholic strategy” of this administration is to undermine and dismantle the witness and work of the Catholic Church.

3) And Obama has a lot of support for that by many self-hating Catholics, who own strategy is likewise to undermine and dismantle the witness and work of the actual Catholic Church and to reconstruct a church of their own making (just go over and read Commonweal, etc., where everything the Church (bishops, etc.) is bad and Obama is a better Catholic than they are.)

4) I doubt Obama even thinks in terms of “orthodox” Catholics… He seems himself as liberator, conservatives as trying to conserve ideas that keep “his people” down. Think of his radical white college prof mother. Mix in a late in life embrace of his black maleness, a dash of Jeremiah’s Wright, and that tells you all you need to know. For religion, think Katharine Jefferts Schori or Sister Joan C, with Biden think of Fr. James Martin after teaching at Georgetown for ten years. 5) This is an excellent analysis. You have hit the nail on the head. I think that the best thing that can happen to the Catholic Church in America will be for the Catholic Church to lose it’s free tax status. That would free up priests and bishops to preach real Catholic doctrine from the pulpit.

6) Sad to say, but this writer has it absolutely correct. The only thing he overlooks is the active involvement of so many ‘Catholic’ clergy (our own Jesuit pastor and his guest celebrants from Holy Cross) that preach Obamamism, the majority episcopate, who align themselves with &support pro-abortion “Catholics” like Shaheen, Pelosi, Biden … leftist priests who preach class-envy, racial hatred and socialism/Marxism- Chicago…"

George H. Kubeck – This blog is mainly educational and truth seeking. Please e-mail to friends who are Obama oriented Catholic or other Christian voters.