Kirsten Powers, a Democrat strategist, proves on today's Wall Street Journal that she's a moderate, sensible Democrat, [link for subscribers only] but it's unlikely that her party will listen.

The Democratic Party has made a huge show of reaching out to religious voters, for whom abortion is a central issue. Overtures have been made to acknowledge the moral dimension of abortion, with Sen. Hillary Clinton's famous remarks that, "we can all recognize that abortion in many ways represents a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women."

But terrified by the left wing of the Democratic Party, the presidential candidates are aligning themselves with organizations that malign opponents of unrestricted late-term abortions as misinformed hysterics. Yet some of the people who run those organizations are themselves bereft of factual information about the procedure they champion. Recently, National Organization for Women (NOW) President Kim Gandy was asked in a radio interview to describe the procedure she so vigorously supports. She couldn't. When pressed, she sputtered, "I'm not a doctor."

Of course, abortion isn't the only issue that Democrat candidates are beholden to the wacko left. Heck, this week California Democrats approved a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney -- though you might have a hard time finding that fact in the relative dearth of media coverage.