A false claim about Heath Mello in a front page diary has been corrected. Thank you, Daily Kos.

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as is the case with everyone else trying to justify support for anti-choice positions.

I get that you don't have good choices in red state America. The point is that Bernie has enormous influence on his supporters, and he is choosing to use that influence to back an anti-choice candidate over hundreds of other, more leftist Democrats. Why? He bestows the title of progressive onto a man who has worked to undermine equal rights for women. He also insists a position in favor of women's rights shouldn't disqualify someone from favored progressive status in his new vision of the party. OS cherry picks statements about Kaine, who now has 100% rating from every abortion rights group--from a decade or more ago. Bernie is doing this now. As we are witnessing, he is influencing his supporters to justify Mello's positions. It is that influence that makes Bernie different, precisely because too many are willingly to resort to anything to defend him OVER the rights of citizens. Few, if any other, politicians have that kind of influence. That is what makes this all so concerning.