Bush's point man in his effort to woo Catholic voters, Deal Hudson, has just
resigned. Seems he fondled two underage students and engaged in public sex with
a third, all in one night.
The bombshell story broke in the Catholic Reporter, and the good folks over at
the Revealer put it all in perspective:
The New York Times is playing the resignation of Bush advisor -- and
conservative Catholic big -- Deal Hudson as a second-tier story, but we think
it should be huge on the front page. Not because Hudson turns out to be a
hypocrite [...] but because of what even a perfunctory investigation reveals
about the administration's approach to the Catholic vote. "'If you wanted to
get something to the top inner circles of the White House from a Catholic
perspective, you could contact Deal Hudson and it was delivered.'"
And yet Hudson hardly represents mainstream American Catholicism. As readers of
his magazine, Crisis -- or his frequent email blasts -- know, he's the Ann
Coulter of Catholicism, a profoundly angry writer who expresses his faith via
vitriolic denunciations not just of liberals, but of anyone within the Catholic
Church who doesn't conform to Hudson's rulings. He's a punisher.
It's easy to see why he fit in nicely in the Bush administration.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/8/19/17420/2834
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