Douglas W. Kmiec, an erstwhile advisor for Mitt Romney’s campaign and former dean of the Catholic University of America School of Law says today in Slate magazine that Barack Obama should be the candidate of choice.

“However hard-working, intelligent, and policy savvy she may be (and she is), Clinton seldom inspires even the so-called “social justice” Catholics or reveals that rare gift of empathy that defined Reagan and that one glimpses in Obama. Say what you will about not preferring style over substance, modern leadership requires both, especially now when the international community-whose help we need to arrest terrorism-seldom gives us the benefit of the doubt,” says Kmiec.

“Beyond life issues, an audaciously hope-filled Democrat like Obama is a Catholic natural,” he concludes.

Polls say different.