Reply #21: "a record spanning three decades opposing abortion rights" [View All]

Just for curiosity, Nick, how about a cite for that 'three decades' part? I know that if there is a cite, you have it because you're excellent at research. So how about it?

The reason I say 'just for curiosity', though, is because the principal question in politics is always and ever 'what have you done for me lately?'.

Because people change, Nick! Some for the better--like DK on Choice, and some for the worse--like John Kerry on, as far as I can tell, everything. I consistently give Kerry props for his past liberal record--it's why I helped put him into and keep him in office, after all--but his recent past is horrible, and I voted against him in '02 along with the other 25K people that Randy Forsberg managed to organise from a standing start in 2 weeks time.

So the only time I care about what happened in the distant past is if I have no information about the recent past. I deplore DK's original stance on Choice. I would never have voted for him then. But he got right with it, and he explained the change in a credible way, so he's now okay by me on that issue as on all others excepting flag desecration. Has Kerry ever explained, in a credible way, how he went from being the guy who asked 'How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?' to being the guy who's going to do exactly that to some poor bastard in Iraq? Has he ever explained how he went from being a Kennedy-esque liberal to being a DLC conservative? I don't think he has, Nick.