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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (1287)	1/9/2001 3:00:51 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Ashcroft just isn't going to make it, IMO. I'm looking for the interview he gave Southern Partisan in 1998, but it's not online - so far I've found excerpts in an anti-Ashcroft essay - it doesn't look good. >>"You've got a heritage of defending Southern patriots like Lee, Jackson and Davis," Ashcroft told Southern Partisan. "Traditionalists must do more. I've got to do more. We've all got to stand up and speak in this respect, or else we'll be taught that these people were giving their lives, subscribing their sacred fortunes and their honor to some perverted agenda." Ashcroft was asked what he thought about a schoolgirl being sent home for wearing a Confederate flag on her knapsack. "Well, you know, I was down in Texas the other day and someone asked, "Where was Missouri in the Civil War.' I said, "Frankly it was in Texas.' After Fort Sumter, the legislature seceded, and they were run out when the federal troops came in and they set up a government in exile down in Texas. "The rights of individuals to respect our history is a right that the politically correct crowd wants to eliminate, and this is just not acceptable. Take those history standards: the standards make no mention of Lee's military genius! I guess there's too much space devoted to Madonna."<< riverfronttimes.com

To: Neocon who wrote (1287)	1/9/2001 3:04:32 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Hmmmm. I see Ashcroft is a Yalie, which may explain why Dubya likes him. Skull and Bones? He's got a lot of other "issues", >>Last year, black officials in Missouri criticized him when he led the opposition to defeat a proposed federal judgeship for Ronnie White, the first black to sit on the state Supreme Court. Ashcroft said White was too sympathetic to defendants in death-penalty cases and too strongly in favor of abortion rights. Carnahan and his allies plan to emphasize the White vote as part of their effort to paint Ashcroft as racially insensitive, a strategy that infuriates the GOP. Meanwhile, Ashcroft's attacks against Carnahan also focus on the death penalty and abortion. Anti-abortion legislators, who are a majority in the Missouri Legislature, long have criticized Carnahan for his views. Last year, they overrode Carnahan's veto of a bill banning "partial-birth abortion." Carnahan said he vetoed the bill because it lacked a health exception and because his legal experts believe its wording banned most abortions, even early ones. The measure is now in court. Then in January 1999, during the St. Louis visit of Pope John Paul II, Carnahan agreed to honor the pope's request that he commute the death sentence of a triple murderer, Darrell Mease. Ashcroft has sharply blasted both of Carnahan's decisions. The two men's disputes on the death penalty and abortion are tied, in part, to their mutual efforts to appeal to, or assuage, Catholics -- who represent at least a quarter of Missouri voters. The Catholic percentage is believed to be even higher in the city of St. Louis and its suburbs. Carnahan needs strong support from urban Catholics, who agree with him on some social-justice issues. But many remain publicly upset over the partial-birth abortion fight, and Ashcroft has made it clear he plans to keep the issue alive. When Carnahan called on Ashcroft to return the honorary degree he received from Bob Jones University, making note of its allegedly anti-Catholic bent, Ashcroft replied that he would comply only if Carnahan returned all the campaign money he had received from abortion-rights groups. Black face, wars and videotape But their biggest clashes have involved disclosures over their personal pasts. Ashcroft has had to defend the seven years of deferments he received during the Vietnam War years, his comments in Southern Partisan magazine in praise of Confederate generals and his appearance last year at Bob Jones University.<< speakout.com