I had no idea about his antics to evade serving. Listening/watching his antics now on any given subject I find it easy to believe that sitting cross-legged in park somewhere chanting "hell no we won't go" is not his style......everything he does he does for the shock value and the attention it brings.

There are things I stood behind 20 years ago that I no longer agree with....with age comes reason, or something like that, right? His opinions now are not necessarily disingenuous just because they differ from his opinions 30 years ago.

I do not mean to suggest that his many years have made him a perfectly reasonable man...I put him in the same class as Ann Coulter. Both are fun to watch in a debate situation for a little while [[even tho just talking louder than your opponent does not a real debate make), but both manage to let the vitriol completely overshadow any legitamacy their opinion/message may carry.