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Democrats give away the Rust Belt by alienating Catholics
The Washington Examiner ^ | September 10, 2017 | Salena Zito

Posted on 09/11/2017 10:08:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

OHIO VALLEY — A clip of Martha Plimpton's exuberance over the "best" abortion she ever had played out on the television overhead of a gas-station counter somewhere along U.S. Route 422 between Ohio and Pennsylvania.

A woman with a name tag noting her as the manager rolled her eyes and said to no one in particular as she went about stacking the shelves behind the counter, "And they wonder why people don't vote for Democrats around here anymore."

Plimpton, 46, is best known for her role in the 1980's Steven Spielberg classic kid adventure movie "The Goonies." She made her remark in an interview with Dr. Willie Parker at a #ShoutYourAbortion event in Seattle in June.....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2016swingstates; abortion; catholics; catholicvote; culturewars; democrats; trump; zito

1 posted on 09/11/2017 10:08:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Democrats booed God at their 2012 convention.
It’s not just Catholics they chased away.


2 posted on 09/11/2017 10:10:52 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are really two Americas. The one that does the real work and pays the taxes. And then there is the other, a much smaller group that floats like scum on top of a pond.


3 posted on 09/11/2017 10:18:05 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Marxist pope is doing his best to alienate Catholics too. The Catholic hierarchy's position on social issues (which of course is NOT matters of faith or morals and hence none of their business) matches almost exactly the liberal wing of the Democrat party except for abortion and birth control.
4 posted on 09/11/2017 10:29:00 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Democrats simply can’t reverse course or even stand still on their core anti-Western, anti-civilization message. Their vocal constituency will not allow it. Is the author, therefore, suggesting Democratic candidates lie? To do that requires what Saul Alinski called a “dog whistle”. To use that effectively the adherents must be sophisticated and in-the-know. That tactic only works by word of mouth and among the various tightly knit political action cells. I laughed out loud at Obama’s confusion when people were boing him. He was trying to signal a dog whistle and ended up helplessly saying something like, “hey, it’s us. We’ve won.”

It’s hard to fake policies that real citizens want when the loudest and most dangerous “actvists’ don’t realize you are faking.


5 posted on 09/11/2017 10:33:00 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And Pope Francis is giving away Catholics by alienating the Rust Belt.


6 posted on 09/11/2017 10:41:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

They are courting the “Lust Belt” of the LGBTQRSATAAPQZXY which has driven away the good wholesome folks of the “Rust Belt”...


7 posted on 09/11/2017 10:44:23 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And the Pope is doing what he can to bring straying Catholics back to the Democrat fold.


8 posted on 09/11/2017 10:44:34 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So,e catholics are pi$$ed Bannon called rhe church out on getting illegals subsidies and becoming a pimp institution.

We shall see how catholics react. I have seen many appologists for taxing my speech so the church can opinion make me with my money (as their message does not see, to stand on its own two legs).


9 posted on 09/11/2017 10:44:58 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: brownsfan

Yep this reflect my post above (corrected here)

Some catholics are pi$$ed Bannon called the church out on getting illegals subsidies and becoming a pimp institution.

We shall see how catholics react. I have seen many appologists for taxing my speech so the church can opinion make me with my money (as their message does not seem to stand on its own two legs).

I fear many Catholics, especially the French-Mexican kind, seem to be all for the government biscuit, kids “pregnant” with their mum and her pimps be damned.


10 posted on 09/11/2017 10:48:13 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: lavaroise

How many people know a Judge’s fitness for confirmation was questioned because they were Catholic last week by Rats? It was almost universally ignored.


11 posted on 09/11/2017 10:52:57 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They thought they had already changed the population to the point where it didn’t matter. They jumped the gun, but are still working on it, with more than enough GOP help.


12 posted on 09/11/2017 10:57:02 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: All

The USA is edging toward a Democrat-triggered fascist takeover, if the corruption in DC is not steam-cleaned of these political stains.

Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, D/W/S, the Clintons, Obama should all be arrested, charged, and tried. All of Obama’s operatives sucking up tax dollars in the Trump admin should be frog-marched out of our government ASAP.

FACTS ON FILE Democrats demand a special counsel to investigate Trump for a fictitious, unsubstantiated claim of “collusion with the Russians” - w/ exactly ZERO EVIDENCE brought forward to justify a ‘special counsel.’ racking up lawyer billing hours like there’s no tomorrow.

OTOH, there’s MOUNTAINS OF EVIDENCE, actual tangible proof.....Hillary’s private server, the infamous found laptop full of incriminating evidence...plus a DEAD BODY (Seth Rich)....yet still NO SPECIAL COUNSEL! NO INVESTIGATION.


13 posted on 09/11/2017 11:03:59 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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14 posted on 09/11/2017 11:06:32 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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Republicans control legislature/executive in 26 states.

Democrats have control of the legislative and executive in a puny six states.

Population of Dem-controlled states: 50,190,213
Population of GOP-controlled states: 164,139,104

Republican control states holding vast amts of oil, natural gas, minerals,
food supplies, the nation's water sources, thriving commerce....and so on.

Democrats control blue states, bankrupt places where Obamacare is flopping bigtime.

(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...


15 posted on 09/11/2017 11:07:09 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
The Democrats--and their henchpersons--in the press, Hollywood, academia, etc.--are disgusting and chasing away ALL DECENT PEOPLE.

The sooner honest, decent people abandon those evil degenerates, the better.

16 posted on 09/11/2017 11:07:19 AM PDT by Savage Beast (To the insane, the sane appear insane. MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; All
"Democrats booed God at their 2012 convention."

The federal uniparty is winning votes by stealing state powers, using those stolen powers to legalize sin.

17 posted on 09/11/2017 11:29:27 AM PDT by Amendment10
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Finally! finally! someone is talking about the Catholic vote and how is sunk Hillary Clinton. I don’t have the numbers handy but basically it goes like this: Clinton got 47% of Catholic vote (counting Hispanics who sold out the principles for a loaf of welfare cheese) and Trump got 53% - without the Hispanic fake Catholics dragging this number down it would have been 60 /38 Trump support from Catholics. These numbers are important because: since 1952 No Republican that has won the Catholic vote has ever lost. And no Democrat who has gotten 47% or less of the catholic vote has ever won. The media (ABC Langer Research to be exact) hid the truth of how bad Clinton was doing with Catholics and a smothered the facts after Wikileaks exposed Podesta’s plot to take over the Catholic Church it stopped even mentioning it.


18 posted on 09/11/2017 11:44:17 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They gave it away the same way they gave away the south a few generations ago... by spitting in the face of American values and working class ethics.

Reality is the rust belt should have flipped 20+ years ago... it has only been family loyalty to past union members that have kept it D this long. That was one of the most striking things I realized when I moved to the rust belt 30some odd years ago. For the most part these people were as republican as anyone I had ever met growing up in the south... with the exception of a loyalty to unions handed down from several generations of working in the mills and mines...

As those industries collapsed and the D party went further and further whackadoo... these voters refused to vote republican out of historical family allegences to democrats... but they didn’t got democrat either... the nuttier the d’s got the more they just disengaged...

Had republicans made any honest effort to win these voters they could have had them at least 10-20 years ago... had they abandoned “free” trade and open borders... but they were being funded by schlubs who wanted this crap so they offered in no meaningful way a reason for these voters to switch..

Trump made an appeal to them and won, and if republicans are smart they will learn from it, and the upper midwest will be as solidly red as the south. But if they keep the GOPe/uniparty crap going on these people will just go back to disengagement. They won’t vote D. But they won’t vote R by default either.

The GOPe better wake up...


19 posted on 09/11/2017 12:56:46 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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Had republicans made any honest effort to win these voters they could have had them at least 10-20 years ago... had they abandoned “free” trade and open borders... but they were being funded by schlubs who wanted this crap so they offered in no meaningful way a reason for these voters to switch..

Excellent analysis.

20 posted on 09/11/2017 12:59:38 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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