Sotomayor’s Surprising Supporter

Nobody rational gives a monkey’s about Bill “Torquemada” Donahue, or who he supports or opposes.

Catholics are strange.

Well, this is slightly more relevant than the last eight Catholicism posts, I’ll grant her that.

Amy Sullivan: “conservative Catholic Bill Donohue ….”

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Hint for Sullivan and every other leftist political activist of the Washington press corps: “conservative Catholic” is redundant. Donohue is what is known as a Catholic. Hint #2: “liberal Catholics” are what normal people call non-Catholic. Hint #3: Those so-called “Catholics” who enter a church only for “family celebrations” (see Sotomayor, Sonia) are not “Catholics” either. Got it?

@textee
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Based on my personal knowledge of the religious and social practices of the many Catholics I grew up with and know, if we apply your definition of “Catholic”, we are likely WAY overcounting the number of “Catholics” in our country. And I’m from the Northeast – Catholic central.

So textee, how often does one have to attend church to be considered a member/ believer in that religion? I need to make sure I fill my quota before the end of the year.
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And wait a minute: don’t conservatives hate quotas?

Unless I’m misunderstanding, the quote above would seem to indicate that Donohue is best ignored – regardless of the position he is taking.

Amy, does she have the support of this Catholic?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/brenda-lee-reporter-dragg_n_208772.html
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I am heartened every day that I see a new Amy Sullivan post. It lets me know that even and absolute dumb ass can get and keep a job in this tough economy!

Can anyone tell me…why is the right having to pretend to object to Sotomayor at all? They seem to really be struggling with it, so why do it?
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Here’s what I’m thinking…they’re doing it because Obama picked her, and if Obama likes her, they have to hate her to appeal to their purified, hardcore base. That much is obvious. However, they know that such a base is unhealthy and would like more moderates.
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Therefore, if they came out in support of her, wouldn’t that appeal to the moderates of the party–or at least, righter-leaning centrists? Couldn’t that move the base closer to the center and put the far-righties (Rush et al) on the fringe? Wouldn’t it also give them credibility across the board (except for the far-right)? To me, this would seriously damage the Rush contingent and put them on the true path to irrelevance.
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It just seems like they’re working so hard to look for reasons not to like her even though they kinda do, which has only small immediate gains and little long-term impact. Why don’t they just turn it around and make it benefit them politically?

Meanwhile, from our “1001 Things You Won’t Read in Time” department comes the news that SS was a member of a far-left, pro-illegal activity, anti-assimilation group.
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Even worse, the group she was a member of gave an award to someone who’d made eliminationist comments years before.
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“Wait!” I hear you say. “Eliminationist??? Like genocide??? And, the group she belonged to gave him an award???”
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Yes, really.

“Hint #2: ‘liberal Catholics’ are what normal people call non-Catholic. Hint #3: Those so-called ‘Catholics’ who enter a church only for ‘family celebrations’ (see Sotomayor, Sonia) are not ‘Catholics’ either. Got it?”
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Really? I thought the latter category was deemed “non-practicing” or “lapsed,” the preference in terminology of the church hierarchy itself. In fact, I thought if you are baptised catholic, you are (from the church’s perspective) a catholic all your life.
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But your distinction between true catholics and non-catholics is remindful of other rightist binaries: true republicans and non republicans, true Americans and un-Americans etc. We have so much to learn from objective arbiters of ID like yourself.

Wow, textee, how many years have you put in with Opus Dei? Do you qualify for a pension yet?
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Please feel free to send all those CINOs (Catholics In Name Only) across the street to the Lutheran Church. Coffee, tuna hot dish, and jello salad after the service in the Fellowship Hall! If you want, we’ll dip the wafer in the wine and place it right on your tongue – no sweat.

Friar Tuck Says:
Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 9:40 pm
“Wow, textee, how many years have you put in with Opus Dei? Do you qualify for a pension yet?”

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Friar Tuck:

That is funny. Wasn’t aware of the pension. Will check ….

So how’s about you come out and say that Donohue is a racist for all the racsit things he’s said about Jews? Then maybe down the road we won’t have to care about his opinion and can have a rational discussion among human beings instead of the pie fights you all have been selling as journalism.

FT: Welcome back. I missed your commenting. I was afraid that the rapture had swept you up in it’s insidious net. BTW, I nominated you for the ambassadorship to the Vatican while you were gone. I know there’s travel involved but I hear the pizza is excellent.

I don’t think Donohoe’s response is particularly surprising. The largest demographic of Catholic’s is hispanic. It would seem odd if he attacked Sotomayor, and risk alienating hispanic Catholic’s. Especially at a time when the Catholic Church’s fortunes are waning in the U.S.