Posted on 09/06/2012 12:32:38 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
After losing the 2004 presidential election, John Kerry had a piece of advice for his fellow Democrats: cool it on abortion.
Kerry told a group of liberals — including the president of Emily’s List and the new head of NARAL Pro-Choice America — that Democrats needed to moderate their tone on the issue. According to Newsweek, Kerry said the party “needed new ways to make people understand they didn’t like abortion.” He even suggested running more pro-life candidates.
The Massachusetts senator had an image of flip-flopping, but he had always been pro-choice. He frequently boasts that his maiden Senate speech was a defense of Roe v. Wade.
So Kerry’s comments understandably shocked some of his liberal comrades. “There was a gasp in the room,” NARAL’s Nancy Keenan told Newsweek.
But many other pro-choice Democrats suspected Kerry was right. “Even I have trouble explaining to my family that we are not about killing babies,” said Donna Brazile, Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign manager.
In his book “The Party of Death,” published nearly two years later, Ramesh Ponnuru wrote that “Democrats were committing assisted suicide.”
“After years in which Republicans had been warned that they needed to have a ‘big tent’ on abortion,” Ponnuru continued, “suddenly it was the Democrats’ turn to hear that advice.”
The Democrats gathered in Charlotte this week have obviously concluded it’s time to take down the big tent. That doesn’t mean that the circus has left town: people are walking around dressed in vagina costumes and engaging in loose talk about a pro-life “war on women.”
This year’s Democratic platform endorses abortion on demand and, if necessary, at taxpayer expense. As The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack points out, public funding of abortion is as unpopular as Todd Akin’s position that abortion should be banned in cases of rape.
What restraint? Aborting a child shows an utter lack of restraint.
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