Halpin also notes, rather astutely, that what seems to be attracting conservatives to the church is “the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations,” a dynamic that that I’ve pointed to before. Maybe not totally complimentary, but hardly attacking Catholics. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals. I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. This observation prompted Palmieri to surmise: This isn’t a “mocking” of Catholics or an attack on them, it’s merely an observation of the fact that while most people associate political conservatism with evangelicals, the reality is that many of the most wealthy, socially prominent conservatives are Catholics-often, as Halpin notes, converts to Catholicism like CNBC host and supply-side evangelist Larry Kudlow, Newt Gingrich, Robert Bork, and Robert Novak. Halpin went on to say, “Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the and think tanks to the media and social groups.” CEO Rupert Murdoch, and Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thompson, are raising their kids Catholic, noting that Murdoch even had his kids baptized “in Jordan where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.” Halpin marveled that two prominent conservatives, Fox News creator and News Corp. In what the Washington Times is characterizing as an “assault on Catholics,” Clinton campaign spokesperson Jennifer Palmieri discussed conservative Catholics in an email exchange with John Halpin, a senior fellow at the progressive Center for American Progress. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is being pilloried by right-wing media and conservative Catholic activists for supposedly “mocking” Catholics in emails released by WikiLeaks from campaign manager John Podesta’s email account.
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