'Kennedy stumbled into the conflict'
Standing up for abortion rights is one thing. Picking a deliberate
fight with the Catholic Church is another. Kennedy would have gotten away with the former. There was
no way he was going to get away with the latter. It was dumb politics.
Update -- Kennedy
last month: Pretending he didn't "understand for the life of me" the church's position, mocking its pro-life stand and calling into question its commitment to health care. As I said, dumb. He was asking for a fight. ...