I suspect that the Dems are going too far now, even for the foggiest minded Catholic (unless his name is Kennedy). The problem with most voters, be they catholic, christian, jewish, atheist, etc. is that too often, their votes are cast based on "sound bites". My aging parents are a good example of how they 'receive' news. While my father will question what he is being fed by the major networks, he forgets to watch Fox News for a more balanced view. My mother, on the other hand, buys into "the language of cute Katie Couric." She (my mother) stunned me recently by unleashing a vitriolic attack on the president, basing her assessment of his performance on 'direct feed' from the likes of The Today Show. Like my father, she is programmed into watching and LISTENING to one-sided, liberal journalists.
There are a good number of conservative voting Catholics, just as there are conservative Jews and christians from various denominations. They will complain vociferously about the decline of propriety in the US, and shake their fists at politicians who have 'let them down'. But, on election day, once inside the voting booth, it seems their arms are 'hard-wired' to the Democrat line.
I remember a recent poll that found that one in four women had the positions on abrotion between the two parties confused, and something like only haf new the current state of abortion legality in this country - ie no restrictions whatsoever.
Further, it is not unusual to find people who claim to be pro-choice whose positions are in fact prolife (if weakly s); ie someone might support abortion for rape and incest and serious physical health dangers but not want a total abortion ban and therefore call themselves pro-
choice...even though they aren't.
Now obviously the Democrats and their media try to obscure the issue on a regular basis, a prime example is the campaign against Judge Owens. They label her an extremist just waiting to overturn Roe because she found a Texas minor abortion notification law constitutitional - a position supported by something like 80% of the country as a whole and a good chunk of people who are pro-abortion.
The problem here is that the Reps have never really tried to make much of an issue of abortion, which allows the Dems and their media to continue dissembling and distorting.
I've said it before but if the Reps run pro-life, center/left candidate in NE as opposed to their current pro-abortion left candidates they will win, and further it will increase the number of observant Christians the party gets nationwide. Remember that the abortion party currently gets a majority of the Catholic vote and a sizable minority of even the Evangelical vote.
Note that it is your mother who is the Democrat and you who are not. This is a generational thing.