Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, is another pro-abortion Catholic who talks before doing his homework:

Every election cycle, conservative Catholics such as Deal Hudson and Robert Novak seek to perpetuate the myth of the so-called monolithic “Catholic vote” claiming that this will be the election that Catholics swing heavily to one side.

I have never made this argument, anywhere. I have always maintained that the Catholic vote is far from monolithic. (Bob Novak, who is recovering from surgery on his brain tumor, has never made this argument either.)

Here are the four basic points I have made about the Catholic vote since 1998, when I first wrote about it:

1. The real Catholic vote is not the aggregate of self-identified Catholics, but the Catholic voters who attend Mass regularly -- the active Catholic voters.
2. A pro-life, pro-family candidate should target these active Catholic voters by finding a way of getting his message directly to them.
3. If successful, such a candidate can add a small percentage of Catholic voters to his total, say 3% to 8% (although Bush in 2000 did better than that.)
4. These small percentages of Catholic voters provide the swing votes in presidential elections to win states like Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Arizona, and so on.

O'Brien, like many other Obama Catholics (Doug Kmiec is an obvious exception), relies on caricatures -- including a caricature of the Catholic faith -- to make their "arguments."

It would be a happy day to wake up and find one of them really wants to have a serious conversation. Now where is that second cup of coffee?