John Kerry has said that, if elected President, he will only nominate Supreme Court Justices who are pro-abortion. But, he is quick to add, this is not a litmus test,
Litmus tests are politically motivated tests; this is a constitutional right. I think people who go to the Supreme Court ought to interpret the Constitution as it is interpreted, and if they have another point of view, then they’re not supporting the Constitution, which is what a judge does.
Yeah, that’s a lot clearer now.
Of course this is Kerry’s version of what Gore had to do when he was running for president — try to explain away his previous votes and stands on abortions. Specifically, Kerry voted to confirm Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia and apparently now fears that vote will be used against him by Democrats in the primary.
Kerry is running his campaign as if he thinks he only has a small shot at winning and so needs to appeal to the Left of the Democratic Party. But, at least from here, he doesn’t handle flip-flopping on the issues very well — certainly not as well as Joseph Lieberman does.