TAKE NOTE: Political Standing.

[Dark Jaguar]

I don't see anything in my positions post from '04 I would disagree with.

Of course, in some ways I've stayed the same while the activists in the party have moved left -- see drug policy most obviously, which I am still not in favor of legalizing for the most part -- but at least I am consistent!

... Well, now I would be much more insistent about us needing to be carbon neutral in the near future, and not just 'cut emissions before we destroy the planet' or something as I'd probably have said back then, but I'm mostly consistent.

As for health care, in the long term I support single payer but we can't go straight to it, there needs to be a transition, and it might take a while. Having some kind of legal private insurance on top of it may also be a reasonable idea.

Why can't we?

Well never mind about that, here's the one point I'd make.  It's okay to change your mind on things.  It doesn't make you a bad person to look back and realize you were wrong about some things.  That's not what being inconsistent is, that's just being stubborn.  You don't win any prizes for having been "right your entire life", that's a ridiculous and unrealistic standard.  If you have never changed your mind on a single political belief your whole life, that's more suspect to me.  It speaks of stubborness, not consistency.