WASHINGTON — Reactions among social-issues advocacy groups to Sen. John Kerry’s choice of running mate Sen. John Edwards are as unsurprising as Kerry’s choice.
Reaction was swift to the Massachusetts Democrat’s choice of his Senate colleague from North Carolina and former rival for the Democratic nomination for president. The abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America called Kerry-Edwards “a dream ticket for a woman’s right to choose.”
The conservative Family Research Council, meanwhile, noted they have given both men a zero-percent approval rating, and accused them of having “a history of opposing [President Bush’s] judicial nominees simply because of their deeply held religious beliefs.”
And the Human Rights Campaign praised Edwards for being “steadfast in his support of our community” on gay-rights issues.
The 51-year-old Edwards is in his first term in the Senate, to which he was elected in a 1998 upset over then-Sen. Lauch Faircloth, a conservative Republican. Edwards previously had little political experience but gained a reputation as a trial attorney for beating large corporations in negligence lawsuits.
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