Posted on 07/14/2005 11:44:57 AM PDT by CHARLITE
Former President Clinton, defending his senator-wife's statements on abortion, said Wednesday that Democrats are held to a double standard.
The comment came during remarks to Campus Progress, a left-leaning student group. He said young people in his party should speak directly to conservative voters.
He contended that Republicans have defined the abortion debate in a way that boxes in Democrats.
"So for example, if you're a Democrat and you have sort of normal impulses, you're a sellout, like when Hillary said abortion is a tragedy for virtually everybody who undergoes it, we ought to do all we can to reduce abortion," Clinton said.
"All of a sudden," he continued, the media began asking, "'Is she selling out? Is she abandoning her principles?' But if John McCain, who's pro-life, works with Hillary on global warming, he's a man of principle moving to the middle."
"It's nuts," the former president said.
A speech by Sen. Clinton in January in Albany, N.Y., led to a flurry of speculation that she was shifting slightly to the right. In that speech, she called abortion a "sad, even tragic choice" and said her husband's administration had done a great deal to reduce the number of abortions in the United States.
Conservatives and abortion-rights foes portrayed the speech as a sign that she was edging toward the middle with an eye toward the 2008 presidential campaign. Her supporters, however, said she was simply repeating positions she had stated since her 2000 campaign for the Senate.
"Double" as it was for sKerry?
A sad tragic choice.
But let's keep it legal.
Sick baby killers!
He's right, actually. But he isn't acknowledging that it's people on his side of the aisle -- principally the media -- that makes this so. Republican moving to the left = "grown in office." Democrat moving right = "sellout."
See Miller, Zell; McCain, John
Depending upon the meaning of it's. 1)Reduce abortions? Since when was that the Hildabeast desire 2)McCain a man of principle 3)McCain moves to MIDDLE with Golbal warming? More like the far left. Again the bent-impeached one talking like to used-car salesman that he is.
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