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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (25236)	5/24/2004 6:57:31 PM
From: MrLucky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Still looking for some clear-cut policy indications from Kerry. Apparently the Boston Herald is too. It's only late May so Kerry has plenty of time to speak out. Will Real John Kerry Please Stand up? By Boston Herald editorial staff Monday, May 24, 2004 He had it right the first time. Or was it the third time? Sen. John Kerry [related, bio] told the Associated Press last week that he wouldn't impose a pro-abortion litmus test on his judicial selections should he become president. Flip. After a bevy of women's groups complained, Kerry said he would impose such a litmus test on candidates for the Supreme Court. Flop. But he's actually voted the other way. Flip. Pro-litmus test Kerry, by the way, was simply reverting back to a position he espoused to win the hearts of Democratic activists during the primary season. Flop. But it wasn't Kerry's position during his early tenure in the Senate when he decried ``the systematic targeting of any judicial nominee who does not meet the requirements of a litmus test.'' Flip. And, of course, Kerry voted in 1986 to confirm anti-abortion Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Flop... news.bostonherald.com