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I receive Father Pavone’s email newsletter, so I have considerable respect for the man.

In this instance, though, his illustration does not encompass the entire situation.

There is a 3rd alternative who is clearly and fully pro-life with the record to prove it.

“There is a 3rd alternative who is clearly and fully pro-life with the record to prove it.”

Father Frank Pavone would disagree with your use of the word “alternative” there. Yes, Virgil Goode will be on the ballot in most states, but it is clear that one of two men—Barack Obama or Mitt Romney—will be elected president in November. I wish we had better choices (I supported Santorum in the primaries, and would support literally hundreds of other Republicans as the GOP nominee over Romney), but those are the facts.

You are free to vote for Goode if you wish, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that such vote will limit evil in any way; if Goode wins 4% of the vote in OH and VA and allows Obama to win those states with 48% (and thus win reelection), Obama will appoint federal judges who are as 100% pro-abortion as Sotomayor, Kagan and all of the distirct and circuit judges that he’s appointed over the past three years, and would end any chance we have of overturning Roe v. Wade. I have no illusions that Mitt Romney is a true conservative, but I also know that he will nominate judges who are FAR more conservative than Obama would. Reelecting Obama would be the worst thing that could happen to the pro-life movement, and I would rather limit evil by supporting the one (very flawed) candidate who can stop Obama than to allow evil to triumph by making the (relatively) perfect the enemy of the (relatively) good.

At least that’s how I think Father Frank would frame the issue, and I agree with him on this. Others may come to different conclusions.