(Mr. Romney supported abortion rights before becoming the governor of Massachusetts, but later changed his position).
Sanders had a long history of supporting LGBT rights before it was cool.
Hanna has supported LGBT rights before -- he signed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to rule in favor of marriage rights for same-sex couples -- while Gibson is a newer arrival to the cause.
Big names in the climate movement, including David Suzuki and Jane Fonda, showed up to lend support (although Fonda bolted right before the actual march began).
"Anybody who is lauded by David Duke, Vladimir Putin and Jean-Marie Le Pen I can't support," Coleman told the Guardian, right before Trump gave a much better-received talk in March to the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
INEXPLICABLY, when Welles finally got to shoot and edit a film, Macbeth, with full studio support, he left the country right before the editing, delaying its release, refusing to promote it and yet agreeing to cut two reels boasting that it was he who mangled it, not some idiot in Hollywood.
Mr. Giuliani's aides argued that Republican voters had been aware of his support for abortion rights before last Thursday's debate.
But again, how can he know what those people have done in support of gay rights before last week And what's the message, then, to allies thrilled by the Supreme Court ruling?
While she has been a widely respected Democratic operative for years — most recently as executive director of Emily's List, the influential fund-raising network for candidates who support abortion rights, and before that in the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s political department — Ms. Moran was not part of President Obama's tight circle of campaign advisers.
The Pew Research poll taken right before Obama's speech found only a moderate level of support for the intervention.
