DEMOCRATS hate Catholics, apparently

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A clip of Martha Plimpton's exuberance over the "best" abortion she ever had played out on the television overhead of a gas-station counter somewhere along U.S. Route 422 between Ohio and Pennsylvania.

A woman with a name tag noting her as the manager rolled her eyes and said to no one in particular as she went about stacking the shelves behind the counter, "And they wonder why people don't vote for Democrats around here anymore."

Plimpton, 46, is best known for her role in the 1980's Steven Spielberg classic kid adventure movie "The Goonies." She made her remark in an interview with Dr. Willie Parker at a #ShoutYourAbortion event in Seattle in June.

After saying Seattle was the home of some of her family, she went on to cheer what she did in her teens: "I also had my first abortion at the Seattle Planned Parenthood. Yay!"

With equal exuberance, she also revealed her Seattle abortion wasn't her last.

Actions like Plimpton's do not help the Democratic cause in achieving power and influence back in Washington, D.C. At least not with Main Street voters. Nor does it help Democrats win local races.

"Democrats used to debate the legal right to have one, and that was a point of view that was shared by most voters," said Michael Wear, a theologically conservative evangelical Christian and Democrat who served in Barack Obama's faith outreach office in the White House.

"I don't understand why, 14 months before a midterm election, why would you push 20 percent of voters who would love to support Democrats out the door? Better yet, why would you speak of pro-life Democrats as though they were some extraterrestrial who just landed on earth?" he said.

It is rare that anyone who has had an abortion celebrates it — Plimpton seems to fail to understand few in this country do. Maybe the privileged class celebrates abortions? Even if they did, that won't help the Democratic Party win back voters. Or is it the intellectual class that celebrates them? Even if they did, that doesn't win back majorities either. Or maybe it's the celebrity class that does? If so, there's not enough of them to win back the House or Senate.

In short, this is not the message you want to win every down-ballot seat the party has let waste away under the thrust of identity politics.

It is not that voters like Republican candidates — it's just that they just dislike Democrats more.




http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-give-away-the-rust-belt-by-alienating-catholics/article/2633808

 

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Thanks to the WikiLeaks disclosures during the 2016 campaign, we know that Hillary Clinton’s aides were trading nasty notes about Catholics, calling them “severely backwards.” DEMOCRATS had long been the party of anti-Catholic bigotry and the exposed emails only confirmed that reputation.

But even after decades of left-wing infiltration of the Church, Hillary couldn’t win the Catholic vote.

Trump’s gibe at the Al Smith dinner — “here she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics” — rang true for many Catholics in the pews.

In defeat, one might have thought that DEMOCRATS would make more of an effort to conceal their anti-Catholic bigotry.

But they haven’t. It was on full display as they browbeat federal appeals court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, whose Catholicism DEMOCRAT senators found very troubling.

DEMOCRAT Dianne Feinstein put her anti-Catholic bigotry in memorable form, saying to Barrett: “When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you.”

Dick "Turban" Durbin asked Barrett: “Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?”

DEMOCRAT senators dug up an article Barrett co-wrote 20 years ago called “Catholic Judges in Capital Cases.” Why they found the article unsettling isn’t clear, as Barrett, with her co-author, argued that Catholic judges should opt out of death penalty cases owing to the immorality of capital punishment.



https://spectator.org/dianne-feinstein-and-the-anti-catholic-bigots/