Some of the “Catholics” who voted for Obama are leftist dissidents. But a fair number of them were probably just ignorant.
Frankly, the statement of the US bishops’ conference on the politics of abortion, issued last summer, although orthodox in principle, was exceedingly stupid, because it seemed to qppear racism with abortion as equally serious sins. They are not, unless by “racism” you mean actually going out and killing people.
Also, McCain was an ass. He barely raised this issue, and he completely discredited himself with Evangelicals by treating them with confusion and disrespect. The same with Catholics. He should have attacked Obama as an extreme baby killer, who three times voted to let children die who are born alive; but he refused to do it.
In other words, there was a lot of ignorance, helped along by everyone who should have been outing Obama for what he really represents.
I’m thinking also that there are many Catholics in the liberal east.
I don’t really get it because Obama has been consistently for abortion and Palestine.
Just add this issue to the list of topics left unaddressed by this superannuated dingbat. One show of integrity would have won this election for McCain. He gave up a month out. Much worse than Dole's campaign. Much worse even than George I's miserable effort in '92.
But the addlepated one is still asking me for money! A guy once brave enough to fly an A-4 over North Vietnam just didn't have the cojones to stand up and fight Obama. I have a bad case of cognitive dissonance over this ....
The Lame-Stream Media also has some culpability in that regard.