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Entry: A Meditation for Guy Fawkes Day Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/a_meditation_for_guy_fawkes_day#8424 Post contents: @Tom Piatak: I'm a protestant and I have (unfortunately) many relatives who have gone into the fringe groups and even with the fundies. I had nonetheless most of my relatives supporting Pat Buchanan and sending him money and passing out literature during his 1996 run. One of my "converts" to Pat was a local Twin Cities kid, a big Swedish guy going to Wheaton College. He was supporting Pat mostly because of abortion, but I won him over to the other main issues and he stuck with Pat thru his Reform run. One of my cousins was going to Bob Jones and went to see Pat when he spoke there during his 2000 Reform run. On Meet the Press, Pat quoted Joe Sobran to the effect that he would rather have the faculty of Bob Jones run American than the Harvard faculty (a take on WFB's famous formulation of phone books and Harvard). Both protestants and Catholics could be better politically. But a very large number of Catholics remain leftists of a very troubling kind. Sure, most of the Prots are confused, but many Catholics seem to be even worse. Sent at: 2008 09 06