From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.bush
Subject: Re: Other Flip-Floppers on abortion
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:21:47 GMT
Followup-To: talk.abortion
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Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
%chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney) writes:
%> Now, how's about those Demo flippers: 
%>
%> 1) Ted Kennedy (flipped from pro-life to pro-choice)
%> 2) Jesse Jackson (yet another flipper on the issue, used to say legal
%> abortion over the right to privacy was like legalizing slavery:
%> no personhood because the act's done in private) 
%> 3) Present VP candidate Al Gore, who used to vote 84% pro-life, is now
%> pro-choice totally. 
%> 4) That governor of Ohio who got beat badly in the last election.  
%> 5) Buddy Roemer, LA. Beat badly. Didn't even make the primary. 
	Being from Louisiana, from the district Buddy served, I have to
reiterate the primary system in Louisiana. It is an OPEN primary. In
other words, ALL Democratic and Republican and other candidates run for
the top two positions to make the final runoff. Only exception is if one
person gets 50% + 1 votes.
	All I can say about Buddy is that he caught himself in the worst
of political situations. The very popular former governor Edwin Edwards
seemed to be supported by the most Democrats, and he lost his supporters
-- particularly educators and teachers -- to other Democrats. Meanwhile
you also had the David Duke phenomenon. The history of these primaries
usually has ONE Republican candidate, coronated by the state party.
Obviously the state party did not wholeheartedly support David Duke, so
they convinced Buddy to switch parties and run as their standard-bearer.
He came in third in a primary that picked the top two vote-getters, and
Louisiana was left with choosing between two evils which are much, MUCH
worse than the choices we have for President.

%> Hey, folks! You can contribute with others, here! 
	Well, Ronald Reagan used to be a Democrat and switch parties. So
did Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas.

%I think you might be able to add Bill Clinton to your list of
%Democrats who have changed their positions on abortion.  Here's
%what my local paper had to say about Clinton's changing stance 
%on abortion:
%
%  "Clinton's aides, meanwhile, also have used the word evolution
%   to describe their candidate's shift in views on abortion.  As
%   governor of Arkansas, Clinton declared that ``I am opposed to
%   abortion.''  In 1989, he signed state legislation requiring
%   parental notification.  As a candidate for president, Clinton
%   has moved to a more clear-cut abortion-rights position.  He
%   said he would not veto Medicaid funding of abortions for poor
%   women." 
%
%   The Raleigh News and Observer, Monday, August 17, 1992
%
%It appears that the radical pro-abortionists in the Democratic party 
%have forced Mr. Clinton to embrace a minority-held position.
Thank you! This is what I waited to see in print! (Also having known a
bit what Clinton has/had done for Arkansas.)
 
-- 
Emil Thomas Chuck		DUKE BLUE DEVILS: 1992 ACC CHAMPIONS!
Biomedical Engineer 1993	1992 EAST REGIONAL CHAMPIONS!!
Duke University, Durham, NC	AND 1992 NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!
August 31, 1992 - May 16, 1993	Duke football? What's that?