The top Democratic presidential candidates claim they want to appeal to voters with faith-based values. But such appeals are inconsistent with their continued pandering to hard-left activists. Next month, they will debate before the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign and the homosexual cable TV network LOGO. And last night, they bid for the support of the Planned Parenthood Political Action Fund. Elizabeth Edwards, speaking for her husband, promised a "universal health-care" plan that would include coverage for "pregnancy termination." Yet 74% of the public opposes federal financing of abortion. Sen. Hillary Clinton spoke of her concern for American servicewomen not that they be given the tools to succeed in their military mission, but that they should be provided with "emergency contraception." Sen. Barack Obama lambasted the U.S. Supreme Court for its recent ruling upholding a ban on partial birth abortion, even though 72% of Americans agree this gruesome procedure should be illegal. Obama backs what we might call "the Oprah test" for Supreme Court nominees, saying, "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom" or "poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old." Obama dismissed the "culture wars" as "just so '90s"--but Senator, unlike some, we're not about to cut and run.
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