FYI, when PP endorsed Kerry, he was the presumptive nominee. Edwards had dropped out 6 weeks

[Luminous Animal]

prior to the endorsement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2004#Dean_emerges_as_front-runner

In Super Tuesday, March 2, Kerry won decisive victories in the California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island primaries and the Minnesota caucuses. Dean, despite having withdrawn from the race two weeks earlier, won his home state of Vermont. Edwards finished only slightly behind Kerry in Georgia but, failing to win a single state, chose to withdraw, making Kerry the presumptive nominee. President Bush called Senator Kerry to congratulate him that evening.

On March 11, after meetings with Democratic superdelegates in Washington, D.C., and former primary election opponents, Kerry accumulated the 2,162 delegates required to clinch the nomination. The DNC's website acknowledged him as the party's nominee at that time, four and a half months prior to the Convention.

On April 23, Action Fund President Gloria Feldt, alongside Senator Kerry at a noontime rally in Washington, DC, two days prior to the historic March for Women's Lives, formalized the endorsement with the following announcement:
“The Planned Parenthood Action Fund has never before endorsed a presidential candidate, but we have a moral obligation to the women of America to stand up for their rights, their health, their lives. ...

http://www.plannedparenthoodrx.com/ppvotes/PPAF-electionreport2004.pdf

[TDale313]

1. Yep. This is the first time they've endorsed in the primary.

I think it's a huge unforced error on their part. I still support them, but I think it'll alienate people who are natural allies at a time they could ill afford it. It just looks terrible.

[Luminous Animal]

2. I still support them, as well. They do necessary and important work.

[questionseverything]

3. i still support pp

but for the first time in my life,i question their leadership

this is what is so heartbreaking to me

[TDale313]

6. Yes, same here.

[yeoman6987]

18. Most like to endorse a winner. That why it was done.

Kennedy wanted to endorse a winner and he did. Planned parenthood did the same thing. Good for them.

[Ed Suspicious]

30. No. This is helping to create a winner. Chicken and egg.

[senz]

26. Yes, I thought they were uncorruptible "good guys" on a mission.

[questionseverything]

34. maybe this is the lesson

there are no "good guys" coming to rescue us

we are gonna have to stand up and rescue ourselves

i will do that by supporting bernie

[senz]

35. Yes, one of life's toughest lessons

but necessary.

So we do what we can.

Go Bernie!

[mountain grammy]

27. Yes, sadly, me too.

[highprincipleswork]

29. I still support PP. Just think this is an unforced error of judgment.

[brooklynite]

4. IOW - make an endorsement when it doesn't matter.

If you feel one candidate will support your positions and is electable, and the other candidate will support your positions and is not, an endorsement makes sense.

[Luminous Animal]

5. It is a rebuttal to the claim put forward by Hillary supporters that PP had endorsed

Kerry during the primaries. They did not.

[Progressive dog]

7. Bernie was the only Senator to miss the vote

to remove Federal funding from Planned Parenthood. From Dec. 4 Forbes

The U.S. Senate voted 52-47 on Thursday to repeal key provisions of Obamacare including the removal of federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Only 99 of a possible 100 votes were cast — missing one Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), who earlier this week was hailed as a champion supporter of Planned Parenthood by way of an impassioned speech on the Senate floor.

[TDale313]

8. Link with more details

http://onforb.es/1m0ESZQ

Vote was never in doubt and Bernie's position was clear.

[Luminous Animal]

10. There is a reason why there was no link.

[Progressive dog]

14. Try the link on the post that your reply is to.

I figured that Forbes is pretty easy to find and that you could always google it, since Senate votes are a matter of public record.

[Luminous Animal]

16. Like I said…

[Progressive dog]

11. Yeah I read that, Bernie doesn't care to stand up

for ACA or for Planned Parenthood by actually voting. I'm sure the people of Vermont didn't elect him to not show up and vote. Only 1% of Senators missed that vote and that 1% was Bernie.

[Luminous Animal]

22. I'm not sure you want to play this game. Hillary missed up to 80% of Senate votes during

her run against Obama. Surely, some of those were important votes.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/hillary_clinton/300022

Bernie's participation wasn't going to matter. The Senate republicans had it locked up. Not only that, they fast-tracked it so there could be no opportunity to filibuster it. A tactic that the Dems had used in the past to defeat similar measures against PP.

[TDale313]

24. He was there for the amendment votes. There for debate.

When it came time for the final vote, which was already a foregone conclusion, he had a plane to catch. Ya wanna make this a thing? Be my guest. Welcome to ignore.

[Progressive dog]

38. At the first debate HRC was the only candidate

who thought the attacks on Planned Parenthood important enough to bring up. Then Bernie is the only Senator who was not present at the final vote on Planned Parenthood funding.

[Luminous Animal]

9. Two things; 1) Your response has zero relevance to the facts presented in my OP and 2)

His vote would have made no difference and he was confident that Obama would veto it and that the veto would survive and override.

Simple.

[Progressive dog]

12. He was the only Senator who thought that way

and didn't vote.

[Luminous Animal]

15. It is their job to vote when in DC, which apparently, they were.

[Progressive dog]

17. Except only Bernie didn't show up

[Luminous Animal]

20. Good thing Hillary was there for the Iraq vote, eh?

[Progressive dog]

37. And that has nothing to do with the PP vote

where Sanders was the only Senator who chose not to vote.

[jeff47]

32. Clinton missed 80% of her Senate votes in 2008.

Do you really want to open this box? Because I'm sure I can find lots and lots of bills she skipped that will not sound good.

[Progressive dog]

36. Bernie was the only Senator missing the PP vote

The only one out of 100.

[jeff47]

39. Clinton wants poor people to starve.

She missed votes on funding bills in 2008 that include funding for several safety net programs. So clearly, she wants poor people to starve.

Again, this is not a good box for your side to open. You will be crushed by the results, because Clinton missed so many votes in 2008. There is a critical vote for every constituency in that 80%. Including funding that makes its way to Planned Parenthood.

And since it takes you almost a week to respond by regurgitating the same talking point, you will never be able to actually cover the results.

[Progressive dog]

40. I don't believe Planned Parenthood has anything to do wih feeding the poor

or whether Hillary missed other votes. I'll bet though, that Hillary was never the only Senator not voting on a bill that was important to her constituents.

[one_voice]

13. This may have been true...

His vote would have made no difference and he was confident that Obama would veto it and that the veto would survive and override.

However showing up and voting shows unity. Shows your support regardless of whether your vote is *actually* needed, imo.

[Luminous Animal]

19. That overriding importance of symbolism over substance. He has shown his support many times over.

[senz]

23. He's running for president w/o millions of dollars, a hoarde of servants, and MSM support.

He is scrambling to catch up with a rich, famous, powerful, unethical politician. He had to make a choice between casting a SYMBOLIC vote and meeting a necessary campaign obligation. As an American, I'm glad he's making the right choices. Much hangs in the balance.

Bernie has been pro-women's rights his entire life. He is solid. Don't ever doubt him on that.

[jeff47]

33. So why didn't Clinton show up to 80% of the Senate votes in 2008?

How 'bout Obama, who missed slightly fewer votes than Clinton in 2008?

"Unity" not matter back then?

[senz]

21. The Clintons manage to corrupt everything they touch.

I'd love to understand why they operate that way.

[TDale313]

25. Yeah, seems like.

[Ed Suspicious]

31. And then try to project, repuke style, their own corruption

onto others.

[George II]

28. So? They endorse when they decide to endorse.