It seems voting for the GOP may be the wrong move...

[Crusading Philologist]

I would not be so convinced that Gingrich will make good on his word. The man has trouble keeping marriage vows, a much graver matter.

This is objectively wrong, and seriously wrong.

Supporting abortion and birth control are far graver sins than adultery.

I'm not saying this is necessarily wrong, but isn't it a little odd to say that your morality is determined more by your political beliefs than your personal conduct?

[kingtheoden]

CP,

It's not odd at all.  Personal imperfections and weakness are less severe than actions that transgress the First, Second, and Fifth Commandments. 

Obama, in word and deed, has caused or intended to cause infanticide.  Let that sink in.  Not only is he in favor of crushing a perfectly viable yet-to-be-birthed child, he advocated for the legal right of people to leave a fully birthed child on a table to die from exposure.

This is deeply, critically evil.

The problem with your argument CP is that you are saying that actions are everything.  First of all, words are actions.  But beyond that, I am sure that there have been and are deeply devoted sons of Holy Mother Church who have, at times, or even now, struggle with containing lust and fornications.  Do you really think everyone at the local chapel is perfect?

Our actions will follow our faith.  If we feed our Faith supernatural food, bad actions will diminish.  And for all we known Newt really is very sorry for having affairs and is devoted to his wife Calista.

Obama on the other hand is post-modern nihilism personified, the fruits of which are dead babies.  Worse, this satanism is falsely called 'women's health' and 'care.'  And he goes out of his way to say Catholics must tithe in a sort of warped dhimmitude to Obama's animal spirits of Baal and Moloch.  Evil, pure evil.

I voted for McCain, and would vote for Ginch in a heartbeat.

[dcmaccabees]

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't we called to do more than simply vote for the "less evil" candidate?  Aren't we supposed to vote for the most moral of the field, regardless of their perceived "electability"?

[DrBombay]

Just do what I do.  Don't vote. Moral dilemma solved. 

[kingtheoden]

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't we called to do more than simply vote for the "less evil" candidate?  Aren't we supposed to vote for the most moral of the field, regardless of their perceived "electability"?

Yes and we will arrive at different conclusions based upon our subjective conscience formation.  There's nothing per se wrong with that, but it does underscore the innate defect of liberal democracy and republicanism. 

If the government were not for sale every couple of years, people would focus on their own lives and there would be stability.  Of course, this assumes a Catholic confessional state as an American heredity system, at this juncture, would be mysteriously awful.

[dcmaccabees]

Ok, then with that benchmark in mind, does Gingrich, Romney, Sanatorum, or Paul fit into the"less evil" or the "moral" box to you?

[Old Salt]

It would be a gravely sinful matter if any Catholic voted for Barack Obama.

[dcmaccabees]

Agreed, but is Obama the only candidate who it would be gravely sinful to vote for in the presidential election?  Romney, for example, only recently came out as pro-life and then only tepidly.  The history of main stream GOP candidates and their actual impact on matters of pushing back the culture of death has been negligible.  It doesn't take a reversal of Roe v Wade, it would simply take an act of congress to remove the Supreme Court from the issue.  The GOP had Congress and the Presidency and did nothing.

[Guardian]

Ok, then with that benchmark in mind, does Gingrich, Romney, Sanatorum, or Paul fit into the"less evil" or the "moral" box to you?

Santorum and Paul fall into the "moral box".

Gingrich and Romney fall into the "less evil" box. 

Any and all would be better than Obama. 

[dcmaccabees]

With that in mind, remember this quote from Max Lerner when tempted to vote for Gingrich or Romney because they are "less bad" than Obama: “When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.”