July 25, 2016

“As a Catholic…” is immediately followed by a ginormous BUT with the BUT symbolizing the infamous “other shoe”, a shoe the size of a 7 League boot circling just out of reach, gathering speed, about to enter the arena like an ascendant gas guzzling Concorde.

Nominal Roman Catholics who become modern American Liberals have “As a Catholic” tattooed on the inside of their eyelids so there is no chance of phumfering as they describe the Map Quest directions on their personal road to Avernus. Having tossed off the moral certitude of the “permanent things” the need to fill the aching void of believing in nothing is filled by the overwhelming impulse to believe in anything. 

The issue, the anvil on which copper bottomed, iron sheathed tautologies are formed, is abortion.

It is empirically self-evident that we can both have our cake and eat it. What Roman Catholic politicians do is to eat their cake and then proudly proclaim that they still have it.

Mario Cuomo, the notorious Roman Catholic Governor of New York, gave the 1991 commencement address at Notre Dame University. It was great theatre, a stroke of pure genius, to do so. Once you have gone over to the dark side, once you have convinced yourself that since the first death didn’t matter, the 60,000,000 that followed it since 1973 don’t mean much either. God’s Holy Trousers but it’s not really important is it? It’s not a big issue like same-sex bathrooms, right? And besides, almost 40% of them are non-Caucasian. Margaret Sanger would have been proud. Her pupil, Hitler, would have been tumescent.

Governor Cuomo said, “As a Catholic”, he was personally opposed to abortion. As Governor he had no choice but to permit it, it being the “law of the land”.

I wrote to him asking what he would have done if Dredd Scott had been captured on his watch. Logic would dictate that while he was personally opposed to slavery he had no choice but to put him on the midnight train to Georgia, it being the Law of the Land

He never replied. And, like father like son, neither has Andrew Cuomo, the current Governor of New York. 

Comes now Governor/Senator Tim Kaine to the lists.  [I am sure there is a reasonable explanation, hopefully short of perjury, for him taking $160,000 in swag and pelf from office seekers and contract petitioners. And, since Hillary had no problem with it, I shan’t mention it.]

If Berne’s assorted loons and wing nuts, along with run of the mill nihilists, don’t burn the place down Kaine, a proud Roman Catholic, proclaim this week that while he t find, and flush procedures, it being the law of the land.

Socrates, Saint Paul, Saint Thomas More, Thoreau, Gandhi, Kolbe, Martin Luther King, and Mandela do not – repeat – do not call your offices. 

Speaking of the law of the land, it didn’t stop Bill Ayers, Obama’s pal from the White hood, from blowing up a building and killing an occupant. With apologies to Orwell and making some noun adjustments some law of the land laws are not as equal as other law of the land laws

Kaine can ask Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Mikulski, any randomly chosen Kennedy, and the ghost of Senator Moynihan – assuming he will come when summoned – or any other dishonest Catholic politician to square the circle.

Just keep pushing and swallowing hard and hope the scar tissue becomes bullet proof. Besides, this time we will make Midnight Basketball work the way it was meant to, the way it was supposed to, the way that modern American Liberals really, really knew it was going to.

After all, what could go wrong?

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – Don’t worry. Debbie’s turn in the barrel is coming.