Laura Ingraham is on Fox Sunday. Her bio says she converted to

[Hieronymus]

Catholicism. Can you imagine the priest taking her confessions, after all the lying she does?

[jefferson_dem]

1. One thing about Laura. She's always been modest about expressing her religious faith commitments.

I mean...she definitely needs a bigger cross to hang around her neck.

[Hieronymus]

2. Yes, that cross is what prompted me to post. Guess she's trying to

cover her ass.

[jefferson_dem]

3. It's like severe overcompensation.

One would think she has some seriously hefty "sin" lurking around in there somewhere.

[Hieronymus]

6. Yes, Lee Atwater converted to Catholicism too as he lay dying of cancer....

No doubt fearing Hell for his evil history.

[AllentownJake]

21. More like trying to reform his image and legacy

The bibles were still shrink wrapped.

[democrat2thecore]

26. No, Atwater had a true-blue reality check

Ask some of the Democrats he saw and spoke with and/or sent letters of apology to. Even Michael Dukakis thinks Atwater truly had a change of heart and wake-up call. See the documentary "“Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story”...it's a revolting look at politics, but you clearly see and hear of a different Lee Atwater as the end neared. He saw all the political crap as petty and felt as if he had betrayed his own roots. Truly a fascinating documentary.

[hatrack]

33. Too bad it took a fatal brain tumor for him to realize that his life had been, y'know, shit . . . .

Strange that he couldn't realize that before the diagnosis.

[democrat2thecore]

35. Well...

Oh, what it must be like to be perfect. Heavy shoulders I'm sure.

Learning you have a fatal brain tumor might make you and me think about some things we've done to people differently as well. I'm sure realizing the fragility of life, the brief moment we're all here and how we choose to spend that time are things that come to the top of mind at a time like that. We're all just people. What's strange is that we don't do a lot of things before staring at the end and thinking about how short our time really is. But the fact is that since the beginning of time - staring at death - has always been a wake-up call. Except I guess for those chosen few who do everything right all the time and are well, y'know, perfect.

I wasn't defending his politics. I was writing about what Democratic senators have said and what the documentary showed. There's so much more to this planet than black and white thinking.

[hatrack]

40. Oooh, ZING! Nicely turned - and thank you SO MUCH for pointing out my non-perfection!

But you digress . . .

So let's return to your implied argument - that Atwater couldn't have known that the systematic deployment and use of lies, innuendo, smear, race-baiting and bullshit was maybe, just maybe, not a net positive contribution to American politics before he got his call on the Bone-Phone?

Oh, but I'm so sorry - my lack of perfection means that any of my views regarding amoral Machivellean charlatans in high places should be withdrawn forthwith - as you so deftly point out above!! :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:

Sorry to waste your time!

[Hieronymus]

36. Exactly, he feared burning in Hell for eternity, when he found he wasn't ......

immortal.

[bullwinkle428]

41. However, the documentary also pointed out that Atwater's Bible

was still wrapped in its original cellophane wrapper, so the genuine was the "religious" part of his conversion?

[snake in the grass]

28. She's a right-wing nutjob.

Of course she's got some seriously hefty sin lurking around in there somewhere.

[msu2ba]

4. I'm surprised....

....it doesn't burn her undead flesh.

[Hieronymus]

5. LOL, good one.

[floridablue]

7. Bet she does a hell of a lot of hail mary's

[Kookaburra]

8. Something is up with the right wing loudmouths

It seems like there are an awful lot of them lately converting to Catholicism. What's up with that?

[ZombieHorde]

9. Who else has converted? nt

[3waygeek]

10. Newt Gingrich, for one... n/t

[Kookaburra]

13. Newt Gingrich & Sam Brownback

Now we hear that Ingraham person has also converted. Okay, maybe it's not an awful lot, but it seems suspicious to me.

[ZombieHorde]

16. It is not an awful lot, but it is the beginning of an interesting pattern.

I wonder if it is coincidence, an attempt to connect with a larger voting block, or something else.

[LBJDemocrat]

11. It's because it sounds good

Evangelicalism is out of fashion.

[Brother Buzz]

20. Opus Dei

Rats jumping from one sinking ship to another. Opus Dei runs mostly under the radar and has a growing power base while most of the wacky white wing Fundy outfits are in shambles.

[johnfunk]

24. Russert, Novak, Gingrich -- Opus Dei in DC is...

... Skull and Bomes for non-Yalie elitists.

[Brother Buzz]

25. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, too

Catholic schools helped suppress Clarence's Gullah patois, something he freely admits he is ashamed of.

And all this time I thought the big Kaunas were spawned from that West Coast fraternity, The Bohemian Grove.

[JoePhilly]

31. They want to be seen as Christian, but not far right Baptist.

There is a split in the Christian community.

Many of the far right baptists don't think that Catholics are REAL Christians. They don't mention it much because they don;t want the Catholics to know because they might lose them as part of their coalition.

[Dappleganger]

37. The Catholic Church has a lot of rules

I think that republicans are drawn to being told what to do and how to think, and that they'll go to hell if they don't.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Heh. She really thinks she's something.

The only thing she ever worshipped was Ronald Reagan.

[safeinOhio]

14. Reading some of the papers of our Founding Fathers

they were no friends of Catholicism. This country was not founded as a Catholic Nation, that's for damn sure.

[DrToast]

15. Priest: Laura, are you sure that's all you have to confess?*

*

[Milspec]

17. I can't stand her shrill voice

Let alone anything she says

[JayMusgrove]

18. She doesn't admit to lying.........the priest would have .....

a field day, condemning her to HELL if she only knew how many lies she told to how many people.

She's about as likely to be welcomed into the garden of heaven as

Jeffery Dahlmer.

[Political Tiger]

19. Lying is not a sin to the religious right.

In fact, for those nut jobs it's a virtue!

[snowdays]

23. but it is to Catholics. I prefer to let that issue be between her

and her God and not mix religion with it.

[Political Tiger]

38. I think you missed the point of my post! n/t

[marshall]

22. She also claims to have adopted a baby from Guatemala

Wasn't she expected to get married and have one the old fashioned way?

[ksoze]

30. She wanted a practice baby first - trying to get the diaper pins thing working better

[democracy1st]

27. kind of ironic that all these so called rightwingers keep going Catholic but their constituents dont

want Catholic Presidents LOL

[a kennedy]

29. Good ol' New did too.......

convert to Catholicism..... :eyes:

[dancingme]

32. "Don't come in my ear" Laura

watch this- Laura berates the people who work behind the scenes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3lCfHtaR30

[Supersedeas]

34. classy

[Hieronymus]

42. What a damn bitch.

[Jennicut]

39. We have some major Catholic politicians on our side too: Pelosi, Biden, Kerry

However, they do not agree with the Catholic religion at all times, most notably on abortion (and they get a lot of flak from more conservative Catholics over that). Funny how those politicians brought up to be Catholic seem less willing to agree with the Catholic church but the idiots that convert take it to the extreme. I have nothing wrong with anyone wanting to be any type of religion but these Rethug losers are totally fake and using the religion to try to appeal to the nutso religious fanatics out there.

[olegramps]

43. Converts to Catholicism tend to be extremely far right .

Most people who grew up in the Catholic faith reserve their opinion on a number of issues including pre-marital sex, abortion, divorce, priestly celibacy, ordination of women, infallibility of the pope and birth control. Many do not accept some of the most fundamental teachings of the church, such as the virgin birth, the Immaculate Conception, transubstantiation, the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and the actuality of the physical resurrection.

Converts accept these teaching without reservation. Don't be too surprise when it is revealed that many are members of the radical cult of Opus Dei whose members believe that every utterance by the pope is to be consider infallible. If this cult, which John Paul II recognized and of which he most probably was a member, gains the widespread power that they seek, their attempt to impose rigid acceptance of all Church doctrines will be met with massive defections such as which took place following the refusal of the Vatican to abandon its stance on contraception and priestly celibacy.