Is the Pope Republican?

I wonder if the genuflecting MSM (mainstream media) folks who couldn’t seem to get enough of the new pope’s coronation will find THIS story worth remembering and repeating . . . Remember, citizens: This guy will probably be around in 2008.

New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign --German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican theologian [and former Hitler youth] who was elected Pope Benedict XVI, intervened in the 2004 US election campaign ordering bishops to deny communion to abortion rights supporters including presidential candidate John Kerry.

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Bush Hails Newly Elected Pope Benedict . . . Bush on Tuesday called newly elected Pope Benedict XVI a "man of great wisdom and knowledge.

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NOTA BENE: OUR PRESIDENT REMARKED THAT ATTENDING POPE JOHN PAUL’S FUNERAL WAS “ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF MY PRESIDENCY.”