Rich Lowry with a good post at The Corner. Quote: "Here we are as conservatives expending an enormous amount of energy to effectively punish candidates for agreeing with us. Since when did it become a bad thing for a candidate to realize the influence of conservatives (and hopefully the correctness of their views) in the nominating process and react accordingly? Now, after excoriating Romney for becoming pro-life, we are seeing the entire foolish process repeated with Rudy becoming anti-illegal immigration."
I partly agree. Although: On the other hand---one reason to look at flip-flops is to question the sincerity of the candidate in question. Has the candidate truly had a change of heart?
Or is it just political maneuvering, to be jettisoned as soon as the election is over?
Remember, conservatives have been burned on this before. See for example George H.W. bush and 1] his appointment of Souter to the Supreme Court and 2] his abandonment of “no new taxes.” We should question changes of heart. On the other hand, we mustn’t deny that sincere changes of heart can happen. And then, if our favorite candidate gets elected, we have to hold him to what he said in the campaign.
