Posted on 10/30/2013 4:50:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
There may be no more misleading newspaper sentence in the Virginia governor's race than this one from reporter Carol Morello in the Oct. 26 Washington Post: "The two major-party candidates running for governor in Virginia are both practicing Catholics."
The Post did not ask McAuliffe where near his home in Fairfax County he attends church every Sunday and holy day of obligation, which is part of the definition of a "practicing Catholic." When radio show host Hugh Hewitt pressed him in 2007 about his church attendance after McAuliffe repeatedly cited his "Irish Catholic" bona fides in his autobiography "What a Party," McAuliffe shot back, "I don't pretend to be a priest, and I don't pretend to be citing ... I don't cite the Bible once in the book."
This is not how a practicing Catholic would respond.
When Hewitt asked how his liberal-stands clash with the church, McAuliffe snapped: "I wish I could follow 100 percent the teachings of the Catholic Church, but believe it or not, much to your chagrin, I am not Jesus Christ."
So a politician has to be Jesus to agree with Catholic teaching in public policy? Claiming membership in a church usually translates to some level of association on religious issues. As an ultraliberal, McAuliffe doesn't believe in Catholic dogma but in Planned Parenthood dogma, which stretches the definition of what is "Catholic" beyond all recognition. Morello and her editors would not describe someone who appears in steakhouse commercials as a "practicing vegetarian." McAuliffe is no practicing Catholic.
In fact, McAuliffe is running a transparently, viciously anti-Catholic campaign all over television, trashing Ken Cuccinelli as a woman-hating extremist for backing proposals that line up with Catholic-church teachings on abortion, contraception and divorce. Any reporter with 15 minutes to kill can discover that.
In the D.C. area, TV viewers are inundated with McAuliffe ads that claim, "Cuccinelli tried to ban common forms of birth control." Women echo: "Even the pill! Even the pill!" Then four people echo, one after the other, he's "way too extreme for Virginia." McAuliffe supporters in the "NextGen PAC" even accused Cuccinelli of "wanting to eliminate all forms of birth control."
Cuccinelli has never supported a bill or taken a campaign stand for banning contraceptive pills, and McAuliffe knows it. In 2007, then-state Sen. Cuccinelli supported a "personhood" bill that simply stated, "life begins at the moment of fertilization." Abortion advocates have twisted that simple sentence into some kind of church invasion of the state.
In another ad, McAuliffe trashed another of Cuccinelli's Senate proposals: "2008: Ken Cuccinelli writes a bill to give Virginia among the most extreme divorce laws in America. If Cuccinelli had it his way, a mom trying to get out of a bad marriage, over her husband's objections, could only get divorced if she could prove adultery or physical abuse or her spouse had abandoned her or was sentenced to jail." In another ad, a woman claims, "He tried to change Virginia's divorce laws to prevent women from getting out of a bad marriage."
This is why people despise political ads. McAuliffe's painting Cuccinelli as if he had proclaimed his biggest goal in life was to prevent women from divorcing abusive husbands. Cuccinelli offered a bill against no-fault divorce, but it was gender neutral and designed to make it tougher for parents to get divorced quickly. Childless spouses were unaffected.
"Studies show that the dissolution of marriage has long term negative impacts on children and those marriages that last for five years are much more likely to go the distance," he wrote. "For this reason, the state has an interest in marital preservation." Here again, the media and the feminists justify these wild exaggerations by noting Cuccinelli is friendly with "father's rights" activists. Men have rights when it comes to their children? Horrors!
Cuccinelli has every right to be disgusted by these ads. He told radio host Steve Malzberg, "I have never seen an opponent who just lies like he's taking a drink of water like Terry McAuliffe."
Finally, McAuliffe is anti-Catholic when he insists religious liberty is null and void under Obamacare. His website claims, "Terry believes that women in Virginia should have access to birth control through insurance." That is -- surprise -- Clintonian. Obamacare, which he supports, demands the public fund birth control. Abortion, too.
McAuliffe is demanding subsidized access to contraceptives, untrammeled access to abortion and easy access to divorce. His TV commercials insist that if you're religious and oppose that agenda, you hate all women and can't have any access to public office. Pope Francis and all his faithful flock are "way too extreme" to be trusted. This is The Washington Post's description of a "practicing Catholic."
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It doesn't matter about his Church attendance or his nationality, he is a rotten husband.
Really, no one who claims to be a Democrat can, in good faith, call themselves a Catholic since Democrats support abortion(murder) and sodomy.
If McAuliffe wins other then through fraud, then the Virginians deserve what they get
That is all the voters need to know about McAuliffe, he supports it.
Sorry to say this, but can a Catholic be a Republican?
Your post will no doubt unleash the flamers, but I think you’re right.
(Establishment) Republicans are only marginally better than Democrats.
Vivat Christus Rex (last Sunday on my calendar :-))
Fannie Mae is located in Wash, DC.....and both are very troubling quasi govt agencies subsidized and bailed out by taxpayers.
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SALIENT POINTS
<><> A recent Inspector General's report claims Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are masking billions of dollars in losses.
<><>Fannie/Freddie are centerpieces of the criminal enterprise called the Democrat Party-—appointed Dem cronies and collaborators loot the organization, get cushy jobs, bonuses, etc. Fannie Mae’s political machine dispenses campaign contributions, jobs to friends and relatives of legislators, hires armies of lobbyists (even paying lobbyists not to lobby against it), pays academics who wrote papers validating the sub-prime home ownership mania, and spreads “charitable” contributions to housing advocates across the congressional map.
In sum, Fannie Mae serves as an industrial-sized patronage factory — sharing profits with political allies, spreading taxpayer funds to voting blocs——like ethnic groups-——and doling out jobs to left-wing academics, Washington has-beens and back-scratching cronies.
<><> THIS IS AN OFFSHORE WIRE TRANSFER ALERT--POLS READY TO CASH-IN BIGTIME: Obama, himself, says it’s time to ‘turn the page’ on Fannie and Freddie
MarketWatch | 7/24/13 | FR Posted by illiac
Obama's July speech on the US economy spelled out the beginning of the end for federally-controlled mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “We’ll work with both parties to turn the page on Fannie and Freddie, and build a housing finance system that’s rock-solid for future generations,” Obama said, according to a copy of his prepared remarks.
The House Financial Services Committee approved a bill in July that would get rid of the firms in five years, to be replaced by a National Mortgage Market Utility to help "securitize" mortgages. (Excerpt) more at blogs.marketwatch.com
NOTE WELL WHAT OBAMA "FORGOT" TO MENTION Page A15 WSJ report entitled “Treasury’s Fannie Mae Heist“.
WSJ excerpt: The Federal government is seizing the substantial profits of the government-chartered mortgage firms, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taking for itself the property and potential gains of private investors the government induced to help prop up these companies. This conduct is intolerable.” A scathing article follows--a must read.
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A HOLDER F/M COVER-UP? for massive sub-prime mtge fraud perpetrated by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (as vote-crazed Obama/Dems suck-up for latino votes).
Wheeler-dealer McAuliffe is ogling the VA treasury ....and the conniving Clintons are having wet dreams about Terry fixing the Va vote for Hilly come 2016.
VA voters who vote for McAuliffe are making a deal with the devil.
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Don't forget---the "dearly departed" are also McAuliffe voters, too (/snix).
TERRY, THESE GHOULISH THING REMIND ME OF YOU McAuliffe is apparently polling well---and prolly receiving mucho campaign cash---from the "dearly departed" b/c a lawsuit Democrats filed says “the [VA State Board of Elections] is rushing to complete the purging of dead voters in time to have the desired effect on the upcoming gubernatorial election.....to make sure that those who no longer live here don’t vote here."
(cackle) The "dearly departed" are also Hillary voters. Terry is 2016 Hillary's place-keeper. If elected, grave-robber Terry will fix the vote---dead or alive---for Hilly. (That's after he rapes the VA state treasury.)
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DEAD AND READY Another shady example of how the connected ex-DNC chair, Obama suck-up, and Clinton confidant, mixes business with politics to profit himself....with the dead and near-dead as his victims.
<><>McAuliffe apparently lied to VA voters---according to McAuliffe's campaign, he invested $33,000 in the notorious Caramadre death fund and received $80,000 in return, a $47,000 profit. However, documents submitted in Caramadre's trial by federal authorities indicated that McAuliffe's profit was actually $114,000, or $34,000 more than McAuliffe admitted to voters.
<><> According to official RI court records, McAuliffe’s connection to Caramadre came to light via court records linking McAuliffe’s investment directly with the terminally ill, ailing mechanic; official forms identified them as "acquaintances" (apparently a requirement to allow McAuliffe to cash in).
<><> When the irrefutable court records surfaced, McAuliffe’s campaign then said McA did not know the mechanic and doesn’t know why they were listed as "acquaintances."
<><> NOTE: if official files were falsified to profit McAuliffe, that's a felony in any state.
Don't worry about then being republicans, the majority of Catholics vote democrat.
Mrs. Don-o that is your response when someone points out the evil of the democrat party and their platform, to counter with asking them if they can vote against them?
If you will re-state it, I wouldn't be surprised if I find myself in agreement.
I think it's understood that nobody in this here neighborhood --- and certainly not I myself --- could countenance voting for a Democrat. I widened to critique to say it's hard to justify voting for a Republican.
Aren't most of the Republicas now holding national political office --- emphatically including the party leadership --- about the sorriest crop you've ever seen? Don't they routinely take positions which would be considered abominable by the Prophets of Israel and the Fathers of the Church?
I'm inclining toward the Tea Party, myself. That, or monarcho-anarchism.
I think it's understood that nobody in this here neighborhood --- and certainly not I myself --- could countenance voting for a Democrat. I widened to critique to say it's hard to justify voting for a Republican.
Aren't most of the Repbublicans now holing national political office --- emphatically including the party leadership --- about the sorriest crop you've ever seen? Don't they routinely take positions which would be considered abominable by the Prophets of Israel and the Fathers of the Church?
I'm inclining toward the Tea Party, myself. That, or monarcho-anarchism.
Oops. Like I said, thud-headed.
The tea party isn’t a party.
When the question is “can a Catholic vote democrat” the answer is that it is going against Christianity and God to do so.
BTTT!
Well, yeah!
Thanks Kaslin.
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