Why not use this opportunity to re-open a debate that would be a great wedge issue for Democrats and speak to the real issue here: the ERA. After all, if everyone from the President to Kerry to Edwards, is in favor of equal rights why not say so? And if one of our supposed great achievements in Afghanistan and Iraq is to bring equal rights to women, why not to American women?
I sometimes am amazed at how utterly lacking in political imagination the Democrats are.