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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Neocon who wrote (121258)	1/8/2001 10:31:34 AM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (2) of 769667

<I don't know, perhaps you are right. I can imagine circumstances where issues would come out late, for example, if the staff were swamped and did sloppy research, assuming that the nominee were a slam dunk anyway.< I could buy that if White hadn't been the Chief Justice of the Mo. Supreme Court and Ashcroft hadn't been AG and Gov. of Mo. He surely knew White and his work well. Pretty clearly an ambush. Remember, this happened at a time that Ashcroft was behind in the polls in his race against Carnahan and Carnahan had appointed White. Ashcroft was looking for some sort of weapon to damage Carnahan with and wanted to label him as a "liberal", "left-winger". Which in Carnahan's case wasn't easy, he was a pretty conservative guy in most ways. So, Ashcroft decided that if he could label White as "pro-criminal" and then link him to Carnahan, as "Carnahan's guy" it would be a good wedge against a very popular guy who looked like he was going to take Ashcroft's seat away. Looks pretty cynical to me...

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