Word: catholicization
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The anti-Catholic controversy had nothing to do with prejudice and everything to do with politics. Bush's decision to make the pilgrimage to Bob Jones was a calculated risk, but if his advisers underestimated the danger of Bush's being seen as tolerating the intolerant, it may be because...
The irony is that McCain's camp did this by using the same tactic for which it was denouncing Bush--mass phone calls to Michigan voters. The calls suggested Bush tolerated anti-Catholic bigotry. Even if the tone of the phone calls was not entirely nasty, the campaign was ambitious...
McCain initially said he had nothing to do with the calls to Catholic voters. As Bush furiously noted after his Michigan loss, the McCain team admitted to the calls only after the polls had closed and the day's stories had been written. McCain doesn't appear to mind twisting...
The Bush team is praying that McCain's direct mail to Catholics backfires. "People resent being manipulated based on who they are," says a Pataki adviser. "But if no backlash kicks in, we'll have to do something." Pataki wants Bush to go before a Fundamentalist group and speak out...
B.J.U. looms large in the early-primary state of South Carolina, however, and almost every Republican presidential hopeful since Ronald Reagan has made a pilgrimage. Reagan was a special friend: his drive to reinstate the exemptions of 111 schools including B.J.U. was thwarted only by a Supreme Court ruling. Thus...