(obligatory statement: I am a Newt supporter)
Look, I know what Santorum is trying to say about Satan and Protestantism. But there are millions of people who attend mainline Protestant churches, (maybe just on Easter and Christmas) who are not theologically savvy. I can tell you what they hear when Rick gives such a speech. They hear a Catholic telling them that their church is run by Satan. Now Rick had EVERY right to give that speech. But if he has no idea how that speech comes across to voters, 99% of whom have no idea what he’s talking about, then he may be way too politically tone deaf to beat Obama.
Well said.
It wasn’t a political speech. It was a religious lecture given in the chapel of a Catholic university four years ago. Are Catholic to muzzle themselves even when they are in church? Secular atheists have no problem loudly proclaiming their faith.
Christians, that is members of Christian churches that still adhere to what’s written in the Bible, know they have no quarrel with Santorum. It’s the ChrINOs who have trouble—those who believe in abortion, in gay marriage, sexual promiscuity at any level, married or openly gay “priests,” and SOCIAL JUSTICE as determined and administered by the state.
You think Newt would answer any differently? Only at his peril—politically and otherwise.