You would think that after the pounding that the Republicans gave John Kerry in the last election over perceived "flip-flops". The Republican candidates would be a little more sensitive to being seen as guilty of a similar offence. If Karl Rove was a Democrat right now he'd be like a rat drooling over a piece of cheese. You have Guiliani and Abortion, who it turns out after weeks of trying to wiggle around, came out with virtually the identical point of view as John Kerry's, although he did his share of wiggling, that he is against it personally, but would not stand in the way of a woman's right to choose. Which I'm willing to bet is the opinion of most Americans.You have Mitt Romney whose view on Gay Civil Right has sway with the winds of political necessity. Not to mention his abortion gymnastics.Immigration is another issue that will snag a few. The Capitalist purists of the Republican party who have spent years pushing the open boarder, free flow of capital mantra will find their words come back to bite them in the ass. Although on that one they will have the trump card, "9/11 changed everything".The one that struck me the most was the evolution question at the Debate last week. The fact that 3 in ten, 30% of the Republican candidates for President of the United States do not believe in evolution. If your argument is that the natural world is such a wondrously complicated thing that it had to have an intelligent designer. Then why do so many threads in the fabric of that design run contrary to the teaching of the Bible. I would think the last thing they would want to do is subject the Bible to a science class. The pandering to the far Religious Right in this Republican primary cycle, I think, is different then the Democratic pandering to the far left. I think with the Democrats, in their hearts, they are far left but work to pander to the middle, which is probably much safer then the other way around.
