Okay, here is a mixed bag.
On the one hand you have Democrats doing what they do best, lying. They are running a push poll on Catholics, trying to use Romney's religion against him (this is where I get to say, "I told you so," to the Romney advocates in the primaries). Obviously, this is bad. What makes it really bad is that the push poll is being run by Catholic Democrats.
On Wednesday Hudson also revealed that a group calling itself Catholics for Obama had been making push poll phone calls in support of the president's re-election bid. Among the questions being asked, he said, was "How can you support a 'Mormon' who does not believe in Jesus Christ?"
The phone banker making the call, which in this case went to a woman Hudson identifies as "the head of a pro-life committee at a parish I know" reportedly also asserted that "President Obama did not support abortion" and that Planned Parenthood "helps children get healthcare and prenatal care and does not promote abortion." In fact, the group is one of the nation's largest abortion providers.
All this amounts to a whispering campaign that is both dishonest about the president's record on abortion and deviously attempts to divide the Catholic electorate on the issue of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's religion—something the Obama campaign has repeatedly promised it would not do.
But on the other hand there are a lot of fundamentalist Catholics who are fighting back...
With most of the national polls showing the race to be one or two points either way, the fight over the Catholic vote is heating up. In Cleveland, Ohio, the local chapter of Right to Life has issued a formal letter to Bishop Richard Lennon asking him to suspend the Diocese's "Faithful Citizenship" meetings because of their disregard for pro-life issues.
"As a pro-life woman and a Catholic, I am appalled," Cleveland Right to Life President Molly Smith said in a release. "Our Church is under attack by the most liberal, pro-abortion leadership in history. The Cleveland Catholic Diocese is missing a great teaching and unifying opportunity by responding in this manner."
The part of
the USNews article that I liked best, though, were the comments that followed. There were dozens of comments that went like this:
When the choice is between a Mormon and a moron, I'll support the Mormon without blinking.
And there were dozens of comments that went like this:
I'll Vote for a Mormon, Christian, Catholic..Before Voting for a Marxist...
And there were dozens (I'm not exaggerating) of comments like this:
How can anyone vote for a Muslim?
Remember, this isn't National Review. This is USNews and World Report which is as liberal a rag as Time or Newsweek.
It's worth clicking the link just to scroll through almost 200 comments that are probably running 90 to 1 against BO. Yes, it's anecdotal evidence but it's all we have these days with a corrupt media. I would like to believe that a LOT of people have had quite enough of the SCOAMF and are willing to vote for anyone. That would be a referendum election.
