Lefties Believe What They Believe...

until someone finds out about it!

Seems there is a nice provincial NDP candidate in BC who doesn't see accused war criminal Slobodan Milosevic as being such a bad guy.

"I saw him as someone caught up in a bad time in history," Keith said. "He meant well. He was trying to do his best for his country."

"Categorically Milosevic has been accused of dastardly crimes and I am not the one to say whether he is innocent or guilty," he said.

"I don't know what orders he did or did not give, but I discussed it with him and he convinced me to some extent that whatever he did was for the good of his country and I came away with the sense that this man was not a diabolical war criminal."

Seems that party leader Carole James didn't see her candidates position as being a problem because it was based on personal experience.

"I'm very pleased with Rollie as a candidate," she said during a campaign stop in Vancouver. "He has a long history of peace-keeping and work in the military. I disagree with his comments but he made his comments based on his experience over there."

Seems there was just a little bit of public outrage.

"Premier Gordon Campbell said the NDP mishandled Keith's nomination from the outset.
"Surely the NDP should have known (about his support for Milosevic) and they should have acted on it then, not now," he said. "Given that Mr. Keith has resigned, that's what he should do." "

Seems that once they were clued into the fact that supporting a murderous dictator would look bad for them, said candidate resigned.

Is it possible that they didn't act because they share the same ideological view as their candidate?