For once, Political chameleon Norm Quimby Coleman has taken the correct stance on an issue. But he flipped and flopped before arriving at the decision to support allow expanded stem cell research.

That doesn't sit well with his far, far right wing radical supporters for two reasons--one of them right and one of them wrong. The wrong reason, as articulated by the director of Prolife Across America in an op-ed piece in today's Strib, is that Coleman's new position is contrary to the radical right's irrational insistence on opposing new cures for deadly diseases. The correct reason for the far right wing's displeasure with Coleman is their disdain for his breathtaking political expediency over an issue they consider one of paramount principle.

Coleman's flop on the stem cell issue only highlights his lack of any deeply held beliefs; the only thing the Senator seems to fundamentally believe in is his own political power.