Blogs For Victory

And no better way to do it than with Our Lady of Guadalupe:

A photo of Senator John McCain in front of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe has drawn mixed reviews from Hispanic voters around the country. Some claim it shows his attempt to reach out to Hispanics…

…The photo, which was displayed by groups at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, has been sized-down and printed on hand-held cards. These cards are being handed out by Republican supporters to attract the support of Hispanics, a group currently dominated by Senator Barack Obama in swing-state polls, reports the Las Vegas Star.

Xavier Rivas, who has one of the cards, maintains that it illustrates McCain’s attempt to reach out to the Hispanic population in the United States. The message it sends, he explains, is that Our Lady of Guadalupe “represents a symbol of our culture, our feelings … and (the photo) is sending a signal to Mexican-Americans that McCain is saying, ‘I know and care about your community’.”

One voter, Fernando Romero, says the card gives him a better feeling about McCain. “He made the effort to visit something spiritual that is in the hearts of all Mexicans.”

Some of you are going, “who is Our Lady of Guadalupe”? Go here to find out.

Of course, tying yourself to the Blessed Virgin doesn’t hurt you with the rest of the Catholic faithful, either – I’m not hispanic, but in my wallet I have a card with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on it. And, in fact, I can’t remember the last day when I didn’t ask Our Lady for some help in some way – its pretty much a common thing among Catholics.

It is almost certain that a majority of hispanic voters will vote for Obama – mostly because they are misinformed about what he really plans to do plus the relentless propaganda from leftwing hispanic groups to the effect that the GOP is racist and doesn’t like hispanic people. Be that as it may, at the core of hispanic America is the Christian faith, and among its strongest symbols is Our Lady. Obama is, indeed, a brother in Christ, but one wonders just what sort of falsehoods might have seeped into Obama’s being via the poisoned tongue of Jeremiah Wright? Given the positions of the two candidates, it is my view that a believing Christian only has one course open to him on November 4th – to vote for John McCain. It is my prayer that my brothers and sisters of hispanic descent and origin will consider carefully what is at stake, and vote based on those truths we know, rather than the false promises of the political left Obama represents.