"Is the Pope Catholic?" is a popular idiom when alluding to something that is self-evident. Apparently not true of our incipient racist friend here, when a recent poll revealed that most Catholics are not voting for him. Which may or may not have something to do with the fact that only 40% of them actually know that he is a Catholic. Mind you, someone like this, pro-war, anti-social policy, pro-assault weapons, pro-torture, pro-capital punishment - those values don't exactly fit with the idea of being a christian, let alone catholic, do they? Well, they might if you were part of the Spanish Inquisition.
The Catholics wrote the book on torture, literally. A favourite form of torture at Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps was strappado, where the hands are tied behind the back and then the victim is hung from them, causing incredible pain and eventually both arms to dislocate at the shoulder. Guess who invented that one - not the Nazis, but Torquemada and his happy bunch of wizards. Makes waterboarding look like a walk in the park.
Perhaps St. Orum here belongs to a more traditional kind of catholic. Well, he has said that he is not a member of the happy clappy fascist Opus Dei, other than the only school his sons ever attended was an Opus Dei school. (All seven kids are home schooled, in case you're wondering. Wonderfully socialised, no doubt). Romney might be wearing magic underwear, but Rick might be wearing underwear made out of barbed wire.
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