John Kerry doesn’t seem like an awful guy and on many issues I could support him. Even on abortion he certainly doesn’t have militantly pro-choice rhetoric. Yet, John Kerry suffers the fate of Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Dennis Kucinich, and Richard Gephardt: if you want to be ’somebody’ in the national Democratic party you have to support abortion on demand. John Kerry has the enthusiastic endorsement of Planned Parenthood, an organization that promotes and profits from the slaughter of millions on innocents. Planned Parenthood is so rabidly pro-abortion they opposed the partial birth abortion ban (truth in advertising would call it the infanticide ban). Any restrictions on abortion are opposed by Planned Parenthood and other feminist groups. And these same groups are the powers behind the throne (ok one of many powers) in the Democratic party. Look at how pro-life Democrats fare at national gatherings: marginalization, censorship, and ridicule. So much for tolerance. I really don’t care much for most of Bush’s policies and voting for him will require the holding of my nose. In the abstract, I could see myself voting for John Kerry, but I could never vote for Planned Parenthood. And a vote for one is a sure vote for the other. Unless there is a viable pro-life, anti-war third party candidate, I’m going to end up voting for Bush.