Obamacan revoution?

Who's the "natural" candidate for U.S. Catholics? Writing in Slate, Douglas W. Kmiec, the former dean of the Catholic University of America School of Law and now chair of constitutional law at Pepperdine University and one-time Mitt Romney devotee says it's Illinois' pride and joy Barack Obama. The Catholic pro-life camp will find it easier to see red than blue this election season, but Kmiec says too many "Republican promises have often left [pro-lifers'] prayers unanswered" before suggesting that Obama sews together a more attractive seamless garment for the Catholic vote.

"Beyond life issues, an audaciously hope-filled Democrat like Obama is a Catholic natural. Anyone seeking 'liberty and justice for all' really can't be satisfied with racially segregated public schools that don't teach. And there's something deeply hypocritical about being a nation of immigrants that won't welcome any more of them."

It's an interesting perspective from a Catholic Republican. Perhaps we've all spent 50 or so years wandering in a political wilderness waiting for another Kennedy to come along. For a lot of folks this election cycle, Obama is providing that same kind of inspiration.