Democrats Playing the Religion Card Already?

Say it ain't so,...

Unfortunately, Red State says so,...


Democrats in Louisiana have apparently uncovered the shocking secret that Bobby Jindal is... wait for it... Catholic!

Not only is Bobby Jindal Catholic, he has (*gasp*) identifiable reasons for being Catholic!

This, along with their candidates' anemic standing in the polls, is a good reason for the Democratic Party of Louisiana to attack Bobby Jindal's faith.

The TrekMedic furthers the posting with the "good reason:"


In the TV spot, the announcer charges that Jindal wrote articles that “insulted thousands of Louisiana Protestants,” and she holds up an article in which she says Jindal “doubts the morals and questions the beliefs of Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Pentecostals and other Protestant religions.”

The ads are an obvious attempt to destroy Jindal in Protestant North Louisiana (they are not running in the heavily Catholic southern part of the state), a generally conservative part of the state where he underperformed four years ago, when he narrowly lost his last bid for governor to Kathleen Blanco (D). Blanco chose not to seek reelection – a wise move considering reviews of her performance after Hurricane Katrina and her standing with state voters.