Read the post. I did not say everyone that is opposed to it is inside the beltway. For intense activists, it is a very important issue, but I submit that a wrong vote on that issue should not per se brand that person as a liberal or unacceptable.
In 1967, Reagan signed an abortion bill in California that was presented to him as restricting abortion. In fact, it included a “health of the Mother exception” and turned out to be the most permissive in the nation. Reagan often mentioned it as a huge mistake. Yet no one labeled him pro-abortion in perpetuity because he made a mistake, although it was a very grave one, far graver than McCain Feingold which, after all, can be repealed.
Sorry, but there are certain issues that are so blatantly wrong-headed as to totally contaminate candidates. For me, CFR is one of them--McCain has sworn oaths several times to support and defend the Constitution---not gut it.
There is a difference between being misled (as Reagan was with the abortion bill), and just ignoring the Constitution (as McCain did).