Weekly Standard Article on McCain, Obama, & the Catholic Vote

Located here at McCain, Obama, & the Catholic Vote Which one is a natural? (Tip of the hat to Southern Appeal)

A few thoughts. Do people recall when a Democrat was anti State execution and a Republican was pro State execution that was made out to be a huge deal by "Progressive Catholics"?

Almost like by some absurd reasoning it trumped abortion? Even though the Federal Govt or the President rarely has anything to do with execution.

It appears that argument , even in a time when perhaps the Federal Govt will be executing terrorist soon perhaps, is very absent.

The fact that Obama is pro-execution and for the Death Penalty is rarely mentioned. Did Bill Clinton sort of take that issue off the table and make it a non issue when he ran back to Arkansas during a primary to make sure a mentally challenged person was executed? Something to think about as perhaps Republican leaning Catholics are being lectured by the progressive Catholic peanut Gallery

I think it is a good article and right on.

The article states at the end:
The Catholic church doesn't claim to have the expertise to answer the largely technical question of how best to achieve such ends as remediating poverty and providing health care. But judging by the moral standards articulated in Pope John Paul II's social teaching encyclical Centesimus Annus, one could make the case that McCain's proposals are more consistent than Obama's with the Catholic social ideals of subsidiarity, solidarity, and human dignity.

Of course, Catholic teaching and Catholic voting do not always go hand in hand. Conservative Catholics will continue to attack Obama on abortion, embryo destruction, cloning, same-sex marriage, and the judiciary--while liberal Catholics will continue to attack McCain on the war, torture, immigration, and climate change. Against such attacks, McCain appears to have a defense. Does Obama?

I have no clue how so called Catholic liberals can attack McCain on immigration. Especially since it was Obama through his poison pill at the request of the Unions helped kill immigration reform in the Senate.

Mccain has a strong case and a good "defense" But that shall be mute unless the McCain gets moving on Catholic outreach in a public way with Pro-life Catholic faces at the forefront. Such as Senator Brownback. The Catholic Progressives for Obama I feel are ahead of the Catholics for McCain and they are taking no prisoners. We need to get moving in a much more aggressive fashion. Especially with so much at stake.