Monday, March 2, 2009

Courting the Catholic Vote

One of the most reported issues related to the November Presidential election is that the Catholic vote went to Barack Obama. In the 2004 election, the Catholic vote went to George Bush.

The Republicans may have already come up with a way to ensure that the Catholic vote goes to the Republican candidate in the 2012 election. Buried in a recent article about his life in the New York Times Magazine, Newt Gingrich announced that he would soon be "swimming the Tiber". He will change his "ist" from "Bapt" to "Pap". He is converting so that he and his wife (#3 for Newt) share the same faith. Perhaps he will author a document about the need for conservative Catholics to become more active in the political arena. If he does so, I suggest the following title: The Newt Testament.

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