True. This was after the Convention when endorsements are usually made. True.
I believe that, for practicing Catholics, Romney was the only one we could have voted for had one decided to vote. Now, it is true that both Romney and Obama supported the intrinsic evil of abortion to varying degrees, but I have not heard a convincing case made that Obama would have done more than Romney to limit the intrinsic evil of abortion. In fact, the Democrat Party now actively supports as part of its platform two sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance: abortion on demand and homosexual marriage.
Amazing, Presidency is one thing, Democrats control the Senate too, Republicans the house.I believe that, for practicing Catholics, Romney was the only one we could have voted for had one decided to vote. Now, it is true that both Romney and Obama supported the intrinsic evil of abortion to varying degrees, but I have not heard a convincing case made that Obama would have done more than Romney to limit the intrinsic evil of abortion. In fact, the Democrat Party now actively supports as part of its platform two sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance: abortion on demand and homosexual marriage.
I believe the U.S. Bishops should have come right out and said, by name, which of the two candidates would have done the most to limit the intrinsic evil of abortion (doing so would not have been a case of the Bishops campaigning but rather a case of them concretely applying the Truth to a specific moral dilemna). Instead, their statements left the resolution of this dilemna up to the subjective judgement of individual consciences.
Now, as to the future of the Republican Party, I think Pat Buchanan (who endorsed Mitt Romney by the way) just took a cold, hard look at the future in latest article “Is the GOP Headed for the Boneyard?” (buchanan.org/blog/is-the-gop-headed-for-the-boneyard-5347).
Now, as to your mention of the economy and Mitt Romney, I don’t think even a Mitt Romney win would have done anything in that regard. As Ron Paul recently said (rt.com/usa/news/paul-fiscal-cliff-obama-364/):
“We’re so far gone. We’re over the cliff. We cannot get enough people in Congress in the next 5 to 10 years who will do the wise things. We have to prepare for having already fallen off the fiscal cliff."
“They’re just looking for the truth,” said the congressman. “They say, ‘Well, all we need is a little compromise.’ Well nobody expects that because they do not admit the truth, and the truth is that we are broke. How do you compromise? The only way you can compromise is if you agree on what to cut. People do not want anything cut. They want all the bailouts to come. They want the Fed to keep printing money. They do not believe we have gone off the cliff or are close to going off the cliff.”
I believe that there are really a few things keeping the U.S. economy afloat right now in spite of our obscene debt: the fact that we can print money out of thin air, the fact that the Dollar is the world reserve curreny, and the fact that our endless “war on terror” has kept at least one sector of the economy growing. But that may all be about to change and even Obama might not be able to stop what comes next.
It may be state level but 23 states is almost half of them.
That so many Catholics voted for Obama shows that human beings are not robots, period. Blindness? How about the ‘new religion’ where the only and supreme sin is abortion? What kind of vision is that?
Because she IS that. I’m quite sure she would have no part of driving people from the faith with derisive, dismissive and judgmental monocular vision.
We need Rubio, no question, and we’ll have to get him ourselves.
Progressive liberals have few kids, so they need minorities as an uneducated underclass to inflate their numbers.
It is not the only sin…but there is no doubt that it is a “supreme” sin…a mortal in…an intrinsic evil.
Individualism can be selfish, but it doesn’t have to be. People need to be free to make that choice. They don’t need a moral theocracy based on religious or secular values. That always backfires. Just look at any other country that governs like that.
Well, it’s going to get rough, that’s for sure. And a lot of people are already learning a hard lesson as layoff after layoff after layoff are coming .I believe that, for practicing Catholics, Romney was the only one we could have voted for had one decided to vote. Now, it is true that both Romney and Obama supported the intrinsic evil of abortion to varying degrees, but I have not heard a convincing case made that Obama would have done more than Romney to limit the intrinsic evil of abortion. In fact, the Democrat Party now actively supports as part of its platform two sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance: abortion on demand and homosexual marriage.
I believe the U.S. Bishops should have come right out and said, by name, which of the two candidates would have done the most to limit the intrinsic evil of abortion (doing so would not have been a case of the Bishops campaigning but rather a case of them concretely applying the Truth to a specific moral dilemna). Instead, their statements left the resolution of this dilemna up to the subjective judgement of individual consciences.
Now, as to the future of the Republican Party, I think Pat Buchanan (who endorsed Mitt Romney by the way) just took a cold, hard look at the future in latest article “Is the GOP Headed for the Boneyard?” (buchanan.org/blog/is-the-gop-headed-for-the-boneyard-5347).
Now, as to your mention of the economy and Mitt Romney, I don’t think even a Mitt Romney win would have done anything in that regard. As Ron Paul recently said (rt.com/usa/news/paul-fiscal-cliff-obama-364/):
“We’re so far gone. We’re over the cliff. We cannot get enough people in Congress in the next 5 to 10 years who will do the wise things. We have to prepare for having already fallen off the fiscal cliff."
“They’re just looking for the truth,” said the congressman. “They say, ‘Well, all we need is a little compromise.’ Well nobody expects that because they do not admit the truth, and the truth is that we are broke. How do you compromise? The only way you can compromise is if you agree on what to cut. People do not want anything cut. They want all the bailouts to come. They want the Fed to keep printing money. They do not believe we have gone off the cliff or are close to going off the cliff.”
I believe that there are really a few things keeping the U.S. economy afloat right now in spite of our obscene debt: the fact that we can print money out of thin air, the fact that the Dollar is the world reserve curreny, and the fact that our endless “war on terror” has kept at least one sector of the economy growing. But that may all be about to change and even Obama might not be able to stop what comes next.
And though Obama is a racially mixed president, where are all of the Democrat Woman governors, okay, they just elected one, but Republicans have a number,and one in New England I’m pretty sure, I forget her name (or she’s a Senator). Republicans have a number of Ethnic Governors we were discussing, Hailey, Jindall, Martinez, 3 off the top, if the Democrats are so gung ho with Minorities, where are these? Where are African American Governors? Has there been one?
Doug Wilder (VA)- First African American Governor
or moderatesMaybe they should become Democrats?
I concur!
The left has to and will continue to, (well “marginalize” is such a nice word), but they’ll keep coming after our minority candidates.
It’s a whole different ballgame in the presidential race. People will vote for someone who looks like them in droves.
So your answer to my 1st question is you’re expecting Scalia to retire? I’m for the sanctity of life, Ishii, and for protecting people’s rights. For me the sanctity of life also includes the lives of women and that of their families. For instance I don’t want Big Brother government forcing a decision on women who have been raped. They know better than me or the government how such a terrible thing affects their and their families lives. Yes I realize Paul Ryan says rape is just another manner of conception. But I am not going to put myself in the shoes of those women. Nor any woman. And I realize in the real world protecting rights is not always black and white. God bless you, Ishii. And God bless America.