I definitely sympathize with Democrats for Life.
"A Zogby poll showed 40 percent of self-declared Democrats say they oppose abortion."
How many Demcratic politicians are pro-life? I doubt it’s 40%. I’d be surprised if it’s as high as 4%.
“Today, Catholics are so blinded by one issue that they don’t see their chance
to make history again.”
Somebody needs to tell David
McCarthy (Pitt News) that the Catholic Church isn’t merely a sports team one roots for.
To vote for someone just because they are a self-professed Catholic is irresponsible
even when the person demonstrates informed obedience to Catholic moral teachings.
Kerry doesn’t even have that going for him.
Regardless of one's take on the presidential election, there are other important posts up for election this November, including the race for senator, where pro-lifers are running. In the case of the Senate, Jim Clymer is running for Spectre's seat, and I will gladly vote for him over one of the biggest advocates for embryonic research anywhere in the federal government.
For a pdf list of pro-life candidates that LifePAC vetted, click here. You can print out a copy and bring it with you to the ballot if you have trouble with remembering some of the local politicians' names. If you cannot read the pdf, go to the LifePAC homepage, and look at the html list.
Go Clymer!
This election’s shaping up to be another humdinger.
THE HOARY QUESTION OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
In the middle of a contentious election, in the fourth year of an administration that didn’t win the popular vote, in an era of ennui, this is the probably the worst possible time to ask one of the hardest questions of our political life. But that is also why this question cannot be avoided:
Should the Electoral College survive in its current form, or at all?
Newspapers and magazines have been full of stories raising the disturbing possibility that the 2004 presidential election could once again end up in the courts: Will we wake up on Nov. 3 not knowing whether George W. Bush or John Kerry will be president for the next four years? Will the Supreme Court intervene again? How did things end up this way? Didn’t the country learn anything from the Florida debacle of 2000?
Zenit has had a bunch articles apropos to the election season.
How Should U.S. Catholics Vote in the Elections?
What Catholics Should Do About Democracy
How Catholicism Can Renew Democracy
Relativism Threatening Democracy, Says John Paul II
Cardinal Pell on Secular Democracy’s Bluff