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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective

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To: Mephisto who wrote (9565)1/29/2001 1:22:11 PM
From: Mephisto  Read Replies (3) of 10042
 
Ascroft will be confirmed even though he scuttled civil rights in Missouri, even refused
to let the League of Women Voters go into St. Louis to register voters and lost his Senate
seat to a dead man because:

As a former senator, Ashcroft has an almost automatic level of support among his former colleagues
that would not be given to a Supreme Court nominee from outside the Senate who held the same views on abortion, gun
control and other hot political issues, said Georgetown University law professor Susan Low Bloch.

dailynews.yahoo.com

It's called Senate collegiality. Ashcroft belonged to the Senate's exclusive inner-circle at one time!
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