KERRY ABORTION FLIP: ADVOCATED 'STATE ISSUE' "Drudge Siren"

Drudge Report ^ | April 21, 2004 | Matt Drudge

[Fast Ed97]

Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry will attend a rally for women's rights in Washington, DC on Friday. But the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal:

KERRY FLASHBACK: 'I Think The Question Of Abortion Is One That Should Be Left For The States To Decide'...

'I think liberals spend too much time pushing issues which just aren't relevant to the mass of people'...

[Owen]

This whole flip flop theme that Rove has orchestrated is quintessentially brilliant. Kerry can't move to the center from his extreme left wing positions or it gets jumped on as the latest of his flip flops.

Brilliant.

[RoseofTexas]

We should all mail out a pair of flip-flops to kerry's campaign office!! What a riot!

[Grig]

He was for State's right before he was against them..

[RoseofTexas]

KETCHUPMAN=fork tongue!! :)

[r9etb]

Maybe eventually Kerry will flipflop on flipflopping, and then he will never be able to flipflop again. Oh wait, he could flipflop on flipflopping on flipflopping.

That would make him a human violation of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

Only problem with is that he sucks all of the energy out of anything he touches....

[Fast Ed97]

[KQQL]

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[LadyShallott]

Frozen Waffles On Sale: 1.99
Cheap Flip-Flops: .99 cents
Sending Kerry and Lib supporters into seizures because you support Free Republic?: PRICELESS

[ex 98C MI Dude]

Kerry is a violation.

'Nuff said.

[aynrandfreak]

This could be an attempt to move closer to McCain's position on abortion for a possible McCain VP offer.

[Steven W.]

no they eminate from GOP opposition research as a response to the new abortion ad from Hanoi John French Kerry.

[Fast Ed97]

But the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal: Kerry claimed in an interview he was "opposed to abortion."

Kerry told the LOWELL SUN in October, 1972: "I would say also that it's a tragic day in the lives of everybody when abortion is looked on as an alternative to birth control or as an alternative to having a child. I think that's wrong. It should be the very last thing if it has to be anything, and I say that not just because I'm opposed to abortion but because I think that's common sense."

Kerry declared: "I think the question of abortion is one that should be left for the states to decide."

In 1975, SUN reporter John Mullins outlined how Kerry believed there were larger issues than abortion including "how to put people back to work, how to reduce crime and how to keep institutions from breaking down."

"'I think liberals spend too much time pushing issues which just aren't relevant to the mass of people,' Kerry said, including among such issues abortion, the death penalty and amnesty."

Developing...

[Liz]

The state's rights position is NOT, I repeat NOT, a pro-life position, b/c we'd end up with legal abortion in some states.

However, we'd best reconnoiter here how this Kerry flip will affect Bush's pro-life vote.

Kerry has obviously concluded he needs the Catholic vote, so he is mushing out on his radical pro-abortion views (and votes). He has a 100% voting rating from the pro-aborts.

This fliperoo might well siphon off some Catholic votes from Bush.

It will now force Bush to spend money on pro-life ads. Could be part of Kerry's long-term strategy.

In the last analysis, Kerry will never do anything to protect the unborn.

[martin_fierro]

[onedoug]

"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...."

States issues.

[Southack]

"It will now force Bush to spend money on pro-life ads. Could be part of Kerry's long-term strategy."

No, dear. Drudge is simply playing up something that JFK said way back in the early 1970's as if it was a present-day flip-flop.

[kennedy]

"I actually was against abortion before I was for it."

[maryz]

Yes, I believe Ted Kennedy was anti-abortion back in the early 70s, too (along with how many other Dems?).