The tricky thing about making arguments based on polls versus principle, as liberals have been doing here and elsewhere over the past week, is that polls can change as people become more informed. That may be happening now regarding America’s 70 million Catholics, a majority of whom voted for Barack Obama in 2008:
Catholics strongly disapprove of the job President Obama is doing as the debate continues over his administration’s new policy forcing Catholic institutions to pay for contraception they morally oppose. While the president’s overall job approval ratings have improved over the past couple of months, they have remained steady among Catholics.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of likely Catholic voters nationwide at least somewhat disapprove of the president’s job performance, while 40% at least somewhat approve. But the passion’s on the side of those who don’t like the job he’s doing: 44% Strongly Disapprove versus 19% who Strongly Approve.
The margin of error is +/- 2. The president’s attack on the first amendment in the service of forcing people to pay for the lifestyle choices of others seems to be backfiring.
This president has sent two very clear messages in recent weeks, with his contraceptive mandate and scuttling the XL: That he places the politics of his fringe base above our bedrock freedoms, and that he is out of touch with the economic realities the American people face around the dinner table every night. His liberal base is with him, but his liberal base only makes up about 20% of the country and they are the rabid yellow dog category of Democrats. They unthinkingly support Obama at every turn. No Republican will win enough of them over to matter and shouldn’t bother trying. The president has to build out from that base but his policies are doing the opposite: He’s losing Catholics, and may lose others as they become more informed about what he is doing, to whom (meaning, pretty much everyone not in his base), and why.
Somebody better medicate that Josh the Scholar, Media Matter’s water boy, that strolls through here before he reads this, Bryan.
For a week, he and his Granddaddy, Flaming Lib, have been assuring the rest of us that this clear infringement of First Amendment by Obama and his shakedown of henchmen (and women) is good politics, and supported strongly by the “vast majority” of Catholics.
Tee hee…
– just reply, “Get a job.” If they say they have a job, then just reply, “Unless it is for the Truth Team, posting all over here 20 times a day is not fair to your employer.” If “self-employed”, then “No wonder you love Teh Won.”
This isn’t going to end well…
I would respectfully suggest that Roman Catholics not spend any time looking at polls. Waste of time and energy.
Please keep your eyes only on Christ and His Cross.
“God commands you to pray, but he forbids you to worry.”
St. John Vianney
Ad Jesu Par Mariam.
There is a pecking order in the Dem Party. Call it, rather, a totem pole.
Women are at the bottom. Blacks and Hispanics are above them. Gays trump minorities. Unions are above them, especially the teachers unions, when there is a conflict between different union interests. Above them are the enviro-whackos. At the top are the big money boys, the trial lawyers and the financiers.
If you want to know which way this administration is going to go on any issue, refer to this totem pole, this pecking order.
Re: lifestyle choices
Fornicating around may be a lifestyle choice. Aborting the natural result of such choice is not: It is implicitly murder, which means the 6th Commandment applies. Regardless of any temporal laws.
So, no change then? Got it.
well now…All you Socialist Catholics are getting what you deserve for voting for your wondrous Marxist leader..you are now feeling the flames of the hell you created..”I will not pray for you.”
Reading the comments here, I am starting to understand why the planet sees the Conservative Republicans as uneducated, violent, bibley types. To have faith in the mythology of religion is ok, as far as it goes. To instruct others to follow you off the cliff of sanity – and to believe in your 13th century fables – is the height of foolishness. The hatred you spew on those you deem ‘unworthy’ is quite the opposite of any teaching from the carpenter named Jesus. Have faith in Yourself – not in some hodgepodge novel written by those high on pot and mushrooms who lived in caves two thousand years ago.
Your children are wondering what is wrong with Mom and Dad – why do you hate the Black President? Why do you hate your Union neighbors and relatives? Why hate those who believe in things you have trouble accepting? Why hate at all? It’s because it is all you have left. Your politics doesn’t work, your heros are all cheaters and liars, your failth is crumbling around you, Priests diddling little boys, Gingrich can’t stay married to save his life, Santorum’s wife gettin abortions – when you shouldn’t, it just goes on and on….
And your comment shows how bigoted and intolerant lefties are of people who don’t march in lockstep with lefty orthodoxy.
Just ask Joe Lieberman what happens when you deviate from even one point of lefty ideology.
Wow Jimbo,
Think of that brilliant rant all by yourself? Sigh….
well jimbo…you Marxist pricks will never be able to drag me down that road your on..I will take death first.
If you had any real knowledge of Jesus the Carpenter, which you clearly do not Jimbo, you would recognize that those bibley Conservative types, though hopelessly fallible like you, are at least making the attempt to live their lives through the instructions of Christ’s guidance, and not some mythology of Hope & Change of Obama and Co.
So really, if you have a beef with the “mythology” of Christianity and you’re not going to continue to be a first class coward and hypocrite, which most irreligious and godless liberals are, you’re going to have to do a couple of things to be true to yourself:
(1) Call Jesus Christ a liar and His message a lie because its message is the most documented, scrutinized testament in history of man with the largest following on earth;
(2) Divest yourself of anything Christian, including the use of its hospital facilities. Otherwise, you’re nothing but a self-serving leech, and completely unedifying opportunist.