[Resolute Conservative]

What a buffoon.

[ConorMacNessa]

A Catholic in name only.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

John Kerry lamented the fact that he lost the pro-life vote in the 2004 US presidential elections during a talk given at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life yesterday. The Catholic, former Democratic presidential candidate still did not, however, express any regrets about his pro-abortion position.

Question: What do John Kerry and Rudy Giuliani both have in common...?

Answer: Both feel pro-lifers should abandon every last principle and scruple to their names, and happily elect pro-abortion politicians to high office... "just because."

[MWS]

Reflecting an ongoing failure of the most US bishops to adequately communicate Church teaching on the issue, Kerry also claimed that the position of the four Catholic bishops was somehow "not a church position. And what we didn't do was make ... sure the Catholic position was in front of people as much as it should be."

Such arrogance.

Seriously, who is he to claim that he is in a more appropriate place to teach Catholic moral doctrine than bishops and the pope himself?

I'm glad this man wasn't elected president.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Typical, sociopathic politician. Kerry hinted he had turned pro-life through some Catholic epiphany. But when pressed in public he feared offending “progressive” abortion advocates more than he feared offending pro-lifers, quickly calculating votes in his head. To call Kerry a sack of human garbage would be to elevate him.

[NYer]

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[Campion]

My challenge was to prove that I was Catholic enough that I could be president call myself one without being a complete fraud without any trace of integrity

Fixed.

Sorry, John, you failed.

[NeoCaveman]

and that he believes "very deeply that it's not a contradiction to be pro-choice and against abortion."

Flip, flop. Flip, flop.

he's still doing it.

[theDentist]

3 years later and he’s STILL trying to figure out how he lost.

[trisham]

Kerry is despicable.

[Gerish]

Find “common ground” on abortion? This man is truly in love with himself.

[Texas Eagle]

"There are 1.3 million abortions in this country, and I don't think anybody would disagree that that is too many", Kerry said....

Yeah, damn the luck, John. If only we could figure out a way to identify the gene which indicates which child will grow up to be Republicans, maybe we could get that 1.3 million abortions down to a number that you might find a little more acceptable.

[Ottofire]

Well, at least four bishops have publicly denounced Kerry. Too bad that they cannot publicly excommunicate him, forcing the rest to stop sheltering him.

If I remember right, back in the middle 1500’s there were some in Trent who had the power and the cahones to actually publicly throw someone out of the church.

But I guess everything is too political now, with too many supporting abortion in the “One and Only True Church”, that the Pope cannot exercise the power that he claims to have. Now the RCC weakly suggests that the reprobate is self-excommunicated, and can sneak into some parish where the Bishop is less Catholic to receive his dose of Grace for the sin of supporting the child slaughter.

[SaintDismas]

What, is this guy depressed or something, this is worse than Al Gore. At least AG went out, got drunk, got over it, now he’s basking in all his global warming glory. Sheesh. Why is this even being discussed, so irrelevant