Catholic Takeover of GOP?

It makes perfect sense for Catholics to seek out the GOP as stakeholders and as active participants in the contiued success of American political, legal, social  and economic system.  America has been very good to Catholics.  Catholics as sctive participants should be determined to keep America strong, free and prosperous and with the help of other Americans contnue to open up paths of personal opportunity, accomplishment and progress for everyone.  

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Since Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 it has been apparent to politicians with a yen for higher office that being a Democratic Catholic involves negotiating minefields that simply do not exist for Republican Catholics. If I were a Catholic striver, I'd be a Republican, not from any burning sense that all virtue is on that side of the aisle but simply from knowing my life would be easier.

If Obama wanted to be a shoo in for the next term, he would dump Catholic Joe Biden and pick up Catholic Bob Casey.  That would probably ensure Pennsylvania and probably Ohio too.  Would Casey ever consider such a thing?  He is running again and seems unbeatable.

To the extent that Catholics (and the Church) are still interested in exercising a preferential option for the poor, they will probably continue to vote Democratic for the most part. Perhaps one should, instead, consider how right wing idealogues (of various religions) have recently taken over the Republican party. How will GOP Catholic politicians attend to the social Gospel in the current anti-immigrant, anti-social-welfare atmosphere?

Should the title of this article be rather GOP takes over Roman Catholic Church in America?  The Bishops have joined in the war against women, and also taken over the tea party message that Obama is like Hitler.  The Catholic opposition to the Republican Budget will fizzle as prominent Roman Catholic republicans will ignore the few scattered voices that object.  I expect the bishops to adopt the trickle down theology next.

If the GOP bishops ever wonder how a pro-life Democratic like me can ever stay that way.. the answer is easy. I just keep recalling that Reagan & Bush 1 were pro-choice, the GOP appointed Catholics on the SC would never in their wildest dreams overturn RoeWade. and same sex marriage is none of the bishops business anyway,   it will not occur in their churches and only in the basements of city hall. And a lot of things have happened in those basements that should be ignored. Bishops'property is tax exempt, they never do their own repairs needing permits,  they never get married so there is no need for them to ever go to a city hall basement.   

No.  It has been a GOP takeover of sel-appointed, self-serving authoritarian clericalist Catholic leadership and the sheeple who think anything a bishop says is Holy Writ.