Reply #88: I look at the whole picture [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

In an extreme case, I'd vote for an anti-choice Dem who was also anti-war, pro-labor, pro-environment, and pro-equal rights instead of a pro-choice Dem who was also pro-war, thought labor unions were "outdated," said that we had to sacrifice the environment to "preserve economic growth," and said that bigotry was "no longer a problem."

Back in Oregon, I banged my head against the wall repeatedly because my female colleagues voted for Bob Packwood as "thanks" for his pro-choice stand. Well, whoop-de-doo, because he was one of the prime movers of that early salvo in the class war, the Tax "Reform" Act of 1986, and he supported everything else Ronald Reagan did. So he was pro-choice, big deal. That didn't make up, in my mind, for the damage he had done to the country by supporting Reagan.

But no, the one-issue voters of Oregon kept electing Packwood (who had also defeated the brave Wayne Morse--one of two Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution--in a dirty campaign) just because he was pro-choice.

Ironically, his Dem opponent was also pro-choice.

And some feminist Bob Packwood turned out to be, huh?

I think that being a one-issue voter makes you stupid sometimes.