{"id":9389,"date":"2012-07-20T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T18:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=9389"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:54:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:54:55","slug":"mitt-romney-says-we-are-all-catholics-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2012\/07\/mitt-romney-says-we-are-all-catholics-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney says, &#8220;We Are All Catholics Now&#8221; UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Why am I choosing the \u201clesser of two evils\u201d come this Fall? Let me show you Exhibit A.<\/p>\n<p><code><object width=\"540\" height=\"320\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/swf.tubechop.com\/tubechop.swf?vurl=AwSk9vlUrDc&amp;start=410.11&amp;end=520.46&amp;cid=442699\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><embed width=\"540\" height=\"320\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/swf.tubechop.com\/tubechop.swf?vurl=AwSk9vlUrDc&amp;start=410.11&amp;end=520.46&amp;cid=442699\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The folks over at <em>The Weekly Standard<\/em> have the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/romney-ohio-i-feel-were-all-catholic-today_648739.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">from a town hall style campaign stop in Ohio<\/a> a few days ago. They\u2019ve just never heard of TubeChop over at <em>TWS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Mitt Romney isn\u2019t an \u201cevil\u201d to choose, but just a <em>weevil<\/em>. Still, I\u2019ll be choosing him. It\u2019s like this, see?<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Lesser of Two Weevils - Master and Commander (1\/11) Movie CLIP (2003) HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XNL0KfD0nts?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to \u201coverthink\u201d the vote. There are just too many other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2012\/07\/ministering-to-the-grieving-in-aurora\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">more important things to do<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Updates:<\/p>\n<p>Exhibits B,C,D, and E<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crisismagazine.com\/2012\/the-election-of-2012\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Crisis Magazine: Post-Comfortable Christianity and the Election of 2012<\/a>.<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/simchafisher.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/05\/why-im-voting-for-romney\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Simca Fisher and I are on the same page.<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/pat-archbold\/my-just-voter-theory\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pat Archbold\u2019s \u201cJust Voter Theory.\u201d<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecatholicthing.org\/columns\/2011\/mormonism-catholicism-and-the-romney-candidacy.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Francis Beckwith on Mormonism, Catholicism, and the Romney Candidacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I choosing the \u201clesser of two evils\u201d come this Fall? Let me show you Exhibit A. The folks over at The Weekly Standard have the rest of the story from a town hall style campaign stop in Ohio a few days ago. They\u2019ve just never heard of TubeChop over at TWS. Maybe Mitt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,36],"tags":[127,31,276,30,102],"class_list":["post-9389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-living","tag-election-2012","tag-in-the-news","tag-mitt-romney","tag-moviestv","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mitt Romney says, &quot;We Are All Catholics Now&quot; UPDATED<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why am I choosing the &quot;lesser of two evils&quot; come this Fall? 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