The long-term Senator began his career as an unrepentant (i)____________ for his party's excesses, defending policies which posterity has since judged to be reactionary, even (ii)____________; more recently he has taken (iii)____________ line, denying that those very policies ever reflected the party's values. A. critic B. surreptitious C. an analeptic D. apologist E. acerbic F. an unconscionable G. appellant H. retrograde I. a revisionist