Well, I’m not always so cynical, Kathryn. President Bush has accomplished a great deal for pro-lifers — if sometimes under duress (i.e. Alito). For that I’m glad.

I just wonder why he doesn’t like to be seen with us.

The last time the national march in favor of abortion took place in 2004, it was bedlam — a bunch of crazies. There were marchers dressed in vagina costumes and shouting the c-word and lots of f-words too. They were, naturally, carrying signs with every possible obscene pun based on the president’s last name. Several of their signs expressed the wish that Bush’s mother (or Ashcroft’s, or some other Republican’s) had aborted him. (Lovely!) Needless to say, none of those made the news.

Howard Dean was willing to be photographed with those kooks. Why can’t Bush ever be seen at the March for Life, which is mostly young people and, by comparison, extremely sane and sober?