Huh?

Article about Tim Kaine, newly elected governor of Virginia:

Kaine defended himself against Kilgore's attack on the subject by saying that it is his beliefs as a deeply religious Catholic that lead him to oppose the death penalty and abortion. But he also said he would follow the law on capital punishment and advocate laws that protect the right to abortion.

"The elite never really got that argument," said David Eichenbaum, one of Kaine's media advisers, referring to columnists and others who wondered how Kaine could be, in his words, "morally" opposed and yet pledge not to try to change the law. "But people who heard him got it."

This is downright stupid. So he's "morally" opposed to the death penalty and abortion (I'm assuming he thinks they're the unjust taking of human life - why else would he be opposed), yet he will not work to "change the law." I'm assuming Mr. Kaine admires those segregationist politicians who personally opposed "separate but equal" but never worked to change it.

That's laughable.