Here’s another post-fallout with the editor letter that reads as a straight contradiction. As opposed to the sarcasm ash employs toward the subject of her ridicule, whose editorial can be read HERE:
Columnist Kathleen Parker is a very interesting writer. She’s always full of it but expresses herself so politely, with such Southern hospitality, a careless reader might never recognize just how deceptive she can be.
And what a spirited apologist she has become for all things conservative. Whether it’s defending the ultra Judeo-Christian Dennis Prager ‘s insistence that a practicing Muslim nevertheless take the oath of office on a Bible or championing Walmart’s predatory practices, she makes it all seem so reasonable and decent that she practically converts the erstwhile stubborn freedom-of-religionist or workers’ rights protester on the spot.
Or is she really so convincing? In her latest ditty, she attempts to distinguish Senator John Kerry from presidential aspirant Governor Mitt Romney in terms of credibility. While the former practically invented flip-flopping, according to Parker, the latter only appears to be guilty of the same political crime. That is, while Kerry inexplicably shifted from Iraq invasion supporter to critic, Romney has recently contradicted his earlier positions on a whole bunch of “values” issues after studying new information and evidence as it was developed. In other words, while Romney’s flip reflects an intelligent, open mind, Kerry’s flop…well, it was just a flop.
That’s funny. I thought Kerry was prompted to denounce the Iraqi misadventure upon realizing that George Bush lied about the evidence. Yet somehow to Parker that doesn’t constitute the kind of subsequently learned facts that persuaded Romney to sensibly change his views. Nor does Parker cite other matters on which Kerry presumably earned the “I was before it before I was against it” championship.
No matter. Between frontrunner Senator John McCain’s “I was for a huge surge before I was for a smaller one” inconsistencies and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s “I was for partial birth abortion before I put restrictions on it” pandering to distrustful religious conservatives, Parker will have her hands full explaining away conflicting statements on the part of virtually every Republican candidate for President in ’08. Unless, of course, Romney has recruited her as a campaign aide masquerading as a journalist.