Eileen McNamara (of all people!) poses the right question to Kerry

This surprised me greatly. She hits the nail on the head, even if the hammer she's swinging is coming from the other side of the plank.

How can one ever truly consider conception as the beginning of human life AND agree that ending that life is somehow acceptable? Hearing Kerry's comment the other day, I immediately predicted he'd shot himself in the foot; he could never hope to defend such an oxymoronic stance.

But I failed to predict the other side's (demonic?)finesse: simply do not advert to the dilemma and it will go away. McNamara, I think, was stunned by the reaction of the feminist leader she quotes as being overjoyed by the Kerry-Edwards matchup. In retrospect, I'm not stunned at all.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the other side is under no moral compunction to tell the truth or even advert to it. They are completely end-driven, and will tolerate any means to their end. Their embrace of Clinton (a la Packwood earlier) tells it all -- "If they say the right things, we don't care what kind of slime they are -- we'll support them!"

How devastatingly sad. And how important it is that America (especially American women!) sees right through them.