Bush and Kerry Divided on Most Issues
Bush and Kerry Divided on Most Issues
This election will be one an easy one for liberals and conservatives. The distance between where President Bush and John Kerry stand on the issues couldn’t be greater. We will be studying and analyzing this in the coming months as the election debate heats up.
Kerry says flatly he’ll only nominate Supreme Court justices who agree with his views in favor of abortion rights.
Contrast this with what John Kerry said on the Senate Floor on January 10, 1995…
“As we changed from the majority to the minority, the new majority came in and, as is perfectly appropriate, they did a great deal of new hiring. I have no problem with that. I have been here in the majority and then the minority, and I have gone back and forth four times. I know a lot of staff changes with that. But I was surprised by news reports that the Republican Study Committee required prospective congressional employees to take an ideological litmus test, not so they could be hired but they had to take it before they could even be listed with a placement service.
Mr. President, I think Senators know me well enough to know this is not partisan. I would object to this whether Republicans or Democrats did it. I do not know whether these questionnaires are legal under Federal laws or the rules of the Senate, but they smack of McCarthyism while I was a teenager during the fifties. I know enough about McCarthyism to know how destructive to human beings and the sense of the public comity loyalty oaths can be.”
Here Kerry is saying this kind of litmus test is practically McCarthyism! Liberals’ position on these kinds of issues all hinge on if they are in the majority and in a position of power or if they are in the minority.
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