The headline in the Washington Post is “Abortion Rights Backers Get Reassurances on Nominee.” The article begins, “The White House scrambled yesterday to assuage worries from liberal groups about Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s scant record on abortion rights, delivering strong but vague assurances that the Supreme Court nominee agrees with President Obama’s belief in constitutional protections for a woman’s right to the procedure.”

Am I way off base, or would the headline “Anti-Abortion Groups Get Reassurances on Nominee,” in the event of a pro-life president’s selection, be a teeny-weeny bit of a problem? No? I’m just being a paranoid Republican lifer? Okay.