KERRY FLIP FLOPS ON ABORTION!!!!!

...oh, wait, 32 years ago . . . before Roe v Wade was even considered.

Nevermind also that the excerpt from the 1972 article has John Kerry articulating a position on abortion that isn't that far from Bill Clinton's ("It's a tragic day in the lives of everybody when abortion is looked on as an alternative to birth control or as an alternative to having a child", "It should be the very last thing if it has to be anything").

But of course, in going down this particular rabbit hole, Drudge causes a new problem: At least we now have documentation of where one of the two presidential candidates was in late 1972!

Nice try, guys.

UPDATE: And speaking of Drudge, there's also his attempt to paint Michael Moore as a capitalist hypocrite of some sort, all because -- gasp! -- his website was designed by Canadians! This is, of course, another example of rampant anti-Canadianism from Drudge, who last year used his site to attack a reporter critical of the Iraq war as being not only gay, but Canadian.

On this matter, I second Ryan Davis (slightly to my right) of Not Geniuses:

Drudge is just trying to piss off the left before the release of Moore’s new film this fall. It won’t work. If they didn’t get pissed off at him after spending twenty bucks on his last crappy book, they won’t get pissed over anything.

First of all, "crappy" is a very strong word. Second of all, UCSB liberals like myself were indeed pissed last fall that Moore's appearance in Santa Barbara would cost a minimum of $18 (as opposed to $5 at other universities, though his SB appearance was downtown). But we weren't pissed in a "fuck everything he's ever done" kind of sense. That's the sort of thing we save for Saint Ralph! We'll be there for the movie this summer, and nobody, not the Arlington Theater, not Drudge, will stand in our way.

LATE UPDATE: Hahaha, I've never seen this happen before. Drudge had the Kerry abortion (1972) story as his main headline. The previous headline had been that the Pentagon was upset about some Iraq casualty photos had been released online. This evening, returning to Drudge, I noticed that the Iraq photo story was returned to main headline status. Guess the latest Kerry smear didn't fly!