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To: ansel12
the Protestant vote is almost a perfect record of supporting conservatism

On what planet???

Yeah, the voting record of conservative, pro-life, pro-family Protestants is conservative, pro-life, and pro-family. Duh. That's a self-selected group; of course they behave consistently with their self-selection.

Check out the voting record of Catholics who demonstrate in front of abortuaries, or attend the "Defending the Faith" conference in Steubenville, or are involved in Opus Dei, the Serra Club, or any of a number of other lay apostolates. Or visit any parish where the TLM is celebrated, and see if you can find an Obama voter. Good luck!

OTOH, ELCA Lutherans are still "Protestant" in any meaningful, historically accurate sense of the word. Think they vote conservative and pro-life? Don't bet on it.

The last four Democratic Presidents were all at least nominally Protestants. Want to tell us how "conservative" they were?

(And no, I'm not going to tell you Jack Kennedy was any better.)

Catholics voted for Protestant George Bush over faux-Catholic John F. Kerry 52 to 45 percent in 2004. Catholics who attend Mass weekly voted for the faux-Republican John McCain over the Muslo-Marxist usurper 50 to 49 percent. That's the definition of a swing vote, not a "liberal voting block".

I think a certain percentage of FR anti-Catholics are liberal as all heck, and are agents provocateurs, here to drive a wedge between Catholics and the conservative movement.

Are you one of them?

16 posted on 08/14/2010 11:48:51 AM PDT by Campion
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To: Campion
On what planet??? Yeah, the voting record of conservative, pro-life, pro-family Protestants is conservative, pro-life, and pro-family. Duh. That's a self-selected group;

No it isn't, the "Protestant" vote includes all Protestants, blacks, Hispanics and all of the none Catholic Christians no matter how left wing, yet the Protestant vote still ALWAYS goes majority conservative, if you leave out 1964 and 1932/1936, Roosevelt could not even win the Protestant vote in 1940 and 1944, nor Truman, or Kennedy, or Carter, or Clinton, (they all and more, of course won the Catholic vote) etc.

Catholics on the other hand have almost always voted left, there are some modern exceptions of course, you mentioned 2004 (but left out the 2000 Catholic Gore vote) when Catholics voted 52% Republican, Hispanic Protestants voted 56% Republican in that election though.

Hispanic Protestants are voting to the right of the Catholic vote, in 2008 for instance when Obama was winning 54% of Catholics, he was only winning 52% of Hispanic Protestants. We do not need more Catholic voters.

17 posted on 08/14/2010 12:07:54 PM PDT by ansel12
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