Bush's Catholic Outreach Guru: GOP Leaving Catholics Dispirited

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Alvin Scott of HI 6:21AM February 21, 2010

How could anyone be taken seriously who says evangelicals vote Republican out of gratitude for 8 years of death, greed and deceit? They may have liked John McCain or disliked Obama but grateful??? I dont think so. The Republicans controlled the Presidency, the Congress, the Supreme Court for the better part of the last two decades--how do you get blaming a persistent who has been in office less than three months? Bush gave us a failed war resulting in thousands of American lives lost, tens of thousands of Iraqis; a failed domestic policy resulting in the death of the American dream for thousands of people who lost jobs, and millions who lost homes, an infant mortality rate in our cities that's higher than Cuba's (a much poor country); This is the real abomination The Republican Party needs the abortion issue as an organizing hook. Most care nothing about working to reduce abortions. We all need to get back to supporting a CONSISTENT ETHIC OF LIFE in this country.

VK of MI 12:19PM March 09, 2009

The old battlelines don't apply anymore. The GOP seems hell bent on fighting the old battles of God, Gays and Guns. Obama bucked the Democratic establishment, something that youth admire...the youth are always rebelling and take great pleasure in it. They also take great pleasure in knowing that they were likely responsible for Obama's election. And Obama knows how to speak to them.

The GOP is the establishment in their eyes. The GOP needs to start talking in language that youth can understand. Most of these voters don't remember Reagan, or know what Marxism is. You say socialism, and they think of Facebook and MySpace.

The worst mistake the GOP are making is that they are allowing the Democratic party to define Rush as a leader. And the GOP cowers like scared little puppies when Rush demands an apology for every perceived offense. The message of the GOP isn't bad--smaller government, social conservatism, fiscal responsibilty--the problem is they have intolerant figureheads shouting at the masses.

The only smaller government the GOP is achieving right now is government whose members have an R after their names.

The GOP can purify the party, but the numbers will never add up. They will be reduced to a cult and to amusing SNL skits.

Mia of WI 11:16PM March 08, 2009

Note how Hudson turns your question about Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance to an answer about himself. This is the fundamental narcism of Mr. Hudson. I am a conservative Catholic who is disgusted that Hudson is still holding himself out as a moral leader.

What he should have said is that Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance are non-groups, letterhead groups that have no members and represent no one but themselves. But this answer would also describe Mr. Hudson and his new fundraising and attention getting engine Catholic Advocate.

Anonymous of VA 12:11PM March 08, 2009