When it comes to Amendment 3, the controversial "Raise Your Hands for Kids" tobacco tax on Missouri ballots this fall, the Post-Dispatch can do one better than John Kerry:
They were for it before they were against it before they were for it again.
The daily's editorial board endorsed the amendment Sunday, calling the tax "voters' best option" to stop people from smoking — and passing on the attendant medical costs to the rest of us.
But while that wasn't necessarily a strange stance for the Lee-owned newspaper, it was a bit odd in light of what preceded it: First, an editorial in February supported the amendment, followed by an editorial in April reversing that support. For those keeping track at home, that's an endorsement followed by a reversal followed by a reversal of the reversal.
Tod Robberson, the paper's editorial page director, disagrees with our contention that the P-D has now changed course three times.…