The Archbishop hits the nail on the head.  All this "social justice" talk is a lot of hooey if it is not advocating Christian virtue.  There is no "virtue" in calling for illegal immigrants to be handed American citizenship and "free" welfare.   Furthermore, no virtue can be grounded in platitudes that do not include the unvarnished and infallible moral teaching of the Church.  Virtue is above all founded in Truth and moral probity.  Virtue may admonish sinful behavior, but it does not simply "tolerate" it, as if somehow it was bigoted to speak of the Truth when confronting sin.  It does no good to anyone to minimize the evil of sin in what we say, even when we are condemned or hated for what we say.  Better lonely than popular and wrong.

Somehow those who disdain marriage prior to having children are living in an "alternative universe" in which life is about "doing what I want". God's Word and the invisible, real love is unknown,  as are their family members real needs.  What counts?  Whatever gains their attention at the moment, the latest fad, the latest news on the MSM, fearing to "impose judgment" on anyone's immoral behavior, (unless it violates the current moral norms of the political correctness).  Their appearance matters a great deal.  They like Obama, and all his sensational lifestyle.  What kind of a shock will they have on Judgment Day?  I fear to say.    

I stand with those who wish Romney had won.  I am happy he was appreciated at CPAC.  

Nevertheless, Romney was not the candidate the Republican Party needed to win. It appears that Romney tried to beat Obama with one hand tied behind his back.   Yes.  Lombardi was right, especially in the Election of 2012.  Romney was too reluctant to take the gloves off and brawl with the liars who managed to convince "low information" voters of just how scandalous the Benghazi or Obamacare was.  

Then again many refused to vote for a Mormon.  In my opinion, not enough is made of Romney's LDS liability.   Yes, Romney and many of my LDS friends are in many ways exemplary conservative citizens.  No, many of us are reluctant to put their full trust in people who stake their eternal soul on the weird cultish LDS dogma and group behavior.  

Another screaming issue was  "project ORCA" fiasco.  Romney ended up with no vote delivery system alongside the Obama Mob's highly efficient delivery of illegal votes.  

God bless Sen. Paul and his gallant colleagues who have carried on the filibuster.  Let's see   .   .   .  how long can this go on?  Why not have ALL the Republicans take turns until Brennan's nomination is rescinded!!!  It could be a while, but well worth it, if only for the galvanizing effect it will have on the "rest of us" out here who are suffering under Obama!!  We are praying for all of you filibustering senators!

She looks like an old fashioned SMERSH operator in a James Bond film.  Does she have those wonderful switch blade toes in her shoes?

My personal recollection of that night was first frustration because of the noise level of the girls in the audience.  There was no other subject among my fellow students the next day.  Being a Junior High student, I listened to rock on the radio in the mid '60s, and especially to a  DJ named Tom Cole out of WBZ in Boston, whose personal schtick was quite creative.  His signal I was able to pull in during the night in Michigan.  Nevertheless, he had sponsored a "best of" contest among his listeners in every entertainment field, and the members of the Beatles won in every category.  Really, I thought?  Oh, well.  The Beatles certainly were amazing in their musical evolution through stages of style and substance, seeming to me always on the cutting edge of pop stylistic evolution, yet staying clear of a lot of the negativity and noise in rock music of the late '60's.  Their end as a group came as abruptly as their beginning, in the last year of the decade.  Nevertheless we still hear tasty bits from old Ringo and Paul to this day.

Many Nevadans who thought the Republican Party had a big winner were disappointed when Sue Lowden lost in the primary to Sharron Angle, but I would like to defend Sharron from those who will call her a "bad candidate" against Harry Reid in 2010.  Will Nevada ever recover the "Reid Machine":  the barrage of low moral, low information voters that now prevails in Nevada?  

Here in Reno this week, we will hear an interesting speaker, Ryan Bomberger, who will tell a story of his mother's decision not to kill him, the child  conceived by rape.   Is it OK to defend his mother's act of divine  love?  May we defend "bad" politicians who make the apparently unpopular decision to support Ryan's right to life?  May we support his mother's right to have carried him to term and to have given him over for adoption?  Are we willing to make a public stand for the sanctity of human life behind women like Ryan's mom as these "bad" politicians Todd Akin, Richard Murdoch and Sharron Angle have?  Or will we turn and run, and evade the Cross?

Barry has to be the all time liar of liars.

Harry Reid takes the top prize for Dem underlings.  Here in Nevada, his tentacles suck us dry on every front.  

One can never forget Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi in a discussion of those who make a lasting impact on the demise of the American Body Politic.

On the contrary:  the public needs to be clearly shown the real policy choices that contrast to "politics as usual" from the Obama Administration.  Obama's Regime needs to know it is avidly watched. While the MSM will predictably continue its Newspeak,  the principled opposition might light fires out there "all over the place" with "real and inspiring stuff" for "the living" among the public to digest.

I, too, like the term "comportment" with regard to the Second Coming.  With all the apparent Betrayal of Christ that has gone on, if only looking at the leadership of my Church in America, the Catholic Church, it would seem the time is near. 

It is useful to think of "comportment" as a disposition to prayer, both intercessory and contemplative, and a disposition toward the Sacrament of Penance.  If we may credit St. Jean Vianney with the revival of faith in mid-nineteenth century France, it would be as the result of the thousands willing to travel from Paris to go to confession at his little village church.  Is there a direct correlation between the massive lines for communion these days, and the desertion of the confessional in many large parishes across the world?  I think so.  There is a presumptuous quality to that way of practicing the Faith.  Sadly, the Second Coming will be a shock to these "casual" believers that compacently walk in to their local parish without the slightest examination of conscience, and thereby see no reason to receive the Sacrament of Penance.   Sadly again, many clergy today are afraid to challenge this behavior at the pulpit.

While this idea is wrong, it is understandable that one would have this perception based on the " USCCB version" of Catholic economics, as opposed to authentic papal social encyclical teaching.  One observes that most "Catholic" countries are misled in the principles of the kind of economics preached by the Acton Institute.  Sad, indeed.

I feel that this definitely, like the other posts of Dr. Rahe, takes us forward in the discussion of future political strategy.  As a "flaming social conservative", I wholeheartedly concur with the mandate for us to embrace libertarianism.  The terrible "seamless garment approach to pro-life" of the USCCB, that has done so much, along with other policy statements of the American Bishops over the past 40 years, is, in fact, in need of total denunciation.  The comfy relationship of Catholics with Statists needs to be forcefully denounced here, there and everywhere if only for the salvation of so many confused laypersons.  Salvation is accomplished "one soul at a time", and "preferential option for the poor" is, in its most authentic sense, a mandate for local parishes to invest in a better social net in their own vicinity.  This is the meaning of the Pope's recent brilliant encyclical,Caritas et Veritate! 

The final terrible remnant of the sexual revolution was the rejection of the Encyclical Humanae Vitae, and the embrace of a kind of phony appeal to the "conscience" of every couple to decide willy-nilly what degree of Catholic moral adherence they would be willing to embrace.  Nonsense!

Bravo, Dr. Rahe, for another highly encouraging, deeply realistic analysis of what we face in this catastrophic loss.  My interest here is most particularly in your analysis of the failure of the Romney campaign to appeal to "naturally conservative" Hispanics.  The Hispanics are not really at home in the world of Obama Statism.  That is the "old country Mexico" PRI politics of corruption.  They are American  Hispanics, ready for something more.  The answer is addressing the "Catholic connection".  That "Catholic connection" has deteriorated considerably under the very USCCB "Bernardin collaborative approach" still powerful, but now diminishing in American Catholic leadership.  Once the American Episcopate breaks free of the Democratic Party grip, Orthodoxy is free to grow and prosper among all Catholics, not only among Hispanics, but among many Catholics who embrace the "New Evangelism".  The "Catholic vote" can be grown to embrace the "non-negotiable principles" of morality, and then taught to support politicians who choose to embrace those "non-negotiable principles".  Real Catholics will embrace the principles of the Tea Party and build a new and broader Republican coalition capable of taking back the White House.  Let us not forget the spirit of the Mexican historical Cristero movement either!

I have not forgotten a revolting movie starring Edward Woodward, one of my favorite actors in movie where the bad guys win:  Wicker Man.  It wasn't just that the bad guys win, but it was shocking, sort of like Shirley Jackson's the Lottery.  Sometimes movies do their best to picture people bring down humanity a notch or two. This Wicker Man does the trick.

My experience here in a precinct in Reno, NV was that the software sent by email simply did not work.  I could never download any software for my cellphone.  I constantly received the message, even into election day, that my browser was not compatible with the browser site provided in the email.  NO ONE in the local Republican office know ANYTHING about project ORCA.  The Las Vegas help line NEVER ANSWERED THE PHONE, EVER.  I finally used the backup plan on the printout I made, that was to call into the 800 number and one by one type in the voter ID number.  I never heard whether or not any of the work benefitted the callers.  I do know that early voting reduced our election day numbers in the precinct drastically.  I also know that the Democrats turned out every person they could, and that I could not be sure if our Project ORCA even turned out one additional voter for Mitt Romney.  There were a lot of TOTALLY UNINFORMED  voters on the Democratic side, which turned out to be good, because when Obama would win, he had NO COAT-TAILS down the ballot.  

Obviously the plan had GLITCHES!!!

"Yeap!"

We are individuals who stand by our consciences and live by truth.  We will out maneuver these one track minded fiends.   The Mob may even kill the nobility as they did in the French Revolution, or any number of Communist revolutions, but we have a soul that will be saved by our Faith.  We need to stay close to God.