Posted By: LOSTDid you purposely pick November 22nd a little past 3:00 PM EST to post the foregoing?
Posted By: mjhhttp://www.esquire.com/features/kennedy-anniversary-112009
A worthwhile read linking the Kennedy assasination with the type of violent hate-speech noted in GL2's post.
Posted By: WootAnd as a reminder, if only Catholics voted in the US, George W Bush would have never been President (according to exit poles). Catholics are largely liberal.
Posted By: WootThat is why I do not equate Catholicism to fundamentalist Christian religions and find it out of place in this thread with your other "Christian Jihad" references.
Posted By: GL2NO WAFER FOR YOU!
Meanwhile, in Little Rhody, Grand Ayatollah Thomas Tobin of the tax-exempt Catholic Church, has decided that Patrick Kennedy cannot receive communion. I wonder how many pro-choice Catholics and women who've had abortions received communion today in America. "Onward Christian Soldiers,/Marching as to war."
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Congressman Patrick Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island, has been denied communion by the Catholic Church because of his pro choice views on abortion. Patrick Kennedy's fight with his own church illustrates the intersection of politics and religion.
Patrick Kennedy, the son of the late Senator Teddy Kennedy, is now in a public spat with Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, who instructed Patrick Kennedy not to receive communion and ordered priests in the diocese of Providence, Rhode Island to deny Kennedy the holy rite.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2419268/patrick_kennedy_abortion_and_the_catholic.html
Posted By: ml1air enough, the bishop is exercising his authority, as is his right. when is he going to start denying communion to pro-death penalty politicians?
Posted By: SMCIt's an insignificant thread, posted on an insignificant message board, started by an insignificant board member who has nothing better to do with his "life". Just ignore it.
Posted By: WootGL2,
But I can understand why Catholicism might disapprove of abortion.
And, I would expect priests to talk directly to Catholic politicians who actively support abortion and remind them of their religious beliefs as Catholics.
Posted By: SMCIt's an insignificant thread, posted on an insignificant message board, started by an insignificant board member who has nothing better to do with his "life". Just ignore it.And yet, you took the time needed to review the comments on this message board, then compose, type and post your own comment.
Marching as to war.
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before!
Christ, the royal Master,
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
See His banner go!
Onward, Christian soldiers,
Marching as to war.
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before!
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In 2009, radical "Christian" jihadists drew blood in NY23. The rotting corpses of both Hoffman and Scozzafava testify to a "kill and/or be killed" religious fervor. But their reign of terror has just begun. Armed with Bible quotes and folk wisdom, they threaten several Republicans in 2010 primaries. Hopefully, this thread will trace the bloody path of entrails and other yucky innards left by the wayside on the road to rapture. It won't be pretty, but someone must take up the cause and document - through stunning copy & paste artistry - the saga of this troubling time; if not for the good of MOL, then certainly for that child, many years hence, who will sit on Granddad's knee and ask, "Poppy, what were Republicans like before they surrendered their party to the crazies?" - GL2
The most deserving of challenge, of course, is Mr. Maverick, the hip-shootin' cowpoke who was irresponsible enough to try putting Sarah second-in-command to an aging president with a history of major health challenges.
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PHOENIX, AZ -- Rasmussen announced a new poll on Friday showing Senator John McCain may be in trouble at home where a polarized electorate has him facing constant criticism from both the left and the right.
The poll shows McCain tied with former Congressman and current talk radio host J.D. Hayworth in a hypothetical Republican primary. Hayworth, who has become an outspoken local hero among immigration-control activists, lost his House seat to Rep. Harry Mitchell (D) in 2006. Since then, Hayworth has promoted the Tea Parties on his radio show and has spoken at Tea Party events, including the April 15 rally in Phoenix. Hayworth has expressed interest in running but has been tight-lipped on whether or not he intends to actually file as a candidate against McCain.
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EXHIBIT B
(CNN) -- The Republican fratricide in the November 3 special election in upstate New York may prove just an opening round of an even more spectacular bloodbath in Florida in 2010.
In New York, Republican feuding lost the party a seat in the House of Representatives. At stake in Florida is not only a senatorship -- but very possibly Republican hopes for 2012 as well.
The battle in Florida pits Gov. Charlie Crist against former Speaker of the Florida House Marco Rubio. Both men claim to be conservative, pro-life, tax cutters. On the issues, they would seem to agree far more than they disagree.
But on one issue they have disagreed passionately: President Obama's fiscal stimulus. Squeezed by his state's desperate fiscal condition, Crist endorsed and campaigned for the Obama stimulus. Inspired by his conservative ideology, Rubio opposed stimulus.
Now Rubio is the darling of conservatives nationwide. Just this week it was announced that he would give the keynote address at next year's annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. He has been profiled on the cover of National Review, endorsed by the Club for Growth, and feted by radio talk show hosts.
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EXHIBIT C
The renewed potency of populist conservatism has been on display since the summer, when health care town hall meetings became a forum for frustrated voters, angry at President Obama and Congressional Democrats over the issue of government expansion, and also at Republicans suspected of not fighting aggressively enough.
But even as conservatives exult in Mr. Obamas declining job approval ratings, the drive for ideological purity inspired by the populists of the right has left many elected Republicans nervous and concerned.
Just ask Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina or Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida, rock-solid Republicans who now are accused of being insufficiently ideological. Consider too the recent election in upstate New York, in which a dispute between conservatives and moderates cost Republicans a House seat they had held for generations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/weekinreview/22stevenson.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
If this thread doesn't have the legs to make it to fall, 2010 - as measured by continuing mainstream news stories about Republican primary challenges - it will die a premature death and disprove the OP's thesis - that the real story of 2010 will not be the obvious one, a pickup of opposition party seats, but the bloodbath within the Republican Party.