Mark Shea: Why Democrats Can't Connect With Religious Voters

Mark Shea posted the following at his blog today:

When somebody calls [Pope] Benedict a "neocon" you may be sure that you are talking to a complete and total ignoramus.

Oh, and a memo to Howard Dean: If you are wondering why the Dems have not been able to connect with "the religious vote", you might contemplate the spectacle of the Daily Kos dubbing the new Pope "Ratf***er". Oddly, even non-Catholics discern in such epithets a worldview that is hard to take seriously when it grins its wolfish grin and assures us that it shares "basic religious values".