You should start a thread on that, this is a thread about the possibility of Obama losing the Catholic vote this time around.
>>this is a thread about
Au Contaire. Your assertion was that this thread was about:
“and as conservatives, how we can keep it from destroying us and our goals as conservative”
Did you mean - Our goals as American conservatives - or “our” goals as Religious / Catholic Theocratic statist "conservatives"?
Maybe (before you perch yourself upon the temple steps and set about the bidness of manipulating folk's vote based upon their faith, which may or may not be the temporal product of individuals, “who being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others”) you ought to revisit what AMERICAN conservatism was all about in the first place - by comprehending and CONSERVING the ideals articulated in The Virginia Act for Establishing RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
THAT would seem to be the American CONSERVATIVE thing to do.