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And you thought the McCain camp was hoping the Catholic blowback from John Hagee’s endorsement would just blow over. Today, McCain rolled out his bigger and better National Catholics for McCain Committee. It’s been around for a while, but the McCain camp is actively growing the effort.

God-o-Meter was just paging through Sarah Posner’s new book God’s Profits and noticed that the very first chapter opens with a quote from John Hagee’s endorsement of George W. Bush for president in 2000. God-o-Meter proceeded to enter the words “Hagee,” “Bush,” and “Catholic” in a Nexis search of all news sources from 1999 thru…

The Huffington Post reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who it notes is the “most prominent Catholic serving in the U.S. government,” is the latest public figure to call on John McCain to reject John Hagee’s endorsement because of the evangelist’s controversial statements on Catholicism: “That behavior is outside the circle of civilized debate in…

John McCain faces a big test with his party’s activist base today when he makes his first appearance before the Council for National Policy, a coalition of hundreds of conservative activists that includes such prominent names as Focus on the Family’s James Dobson. It was at a Council for National Policy meeting last fall that…
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