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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (9284)	1/11/2001 3:47:13 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

No, I am unable to support Ashcroft. Apart from the Ronnie White affair and apart from Ashcroft's support of the leaders of the Southern Confederacy in a Southern Civil War magazine where Ashcroft called the Civil War a Perverted Agenda, I think excerpts from the following article sums up my feelings about Ashcroft the best: (Ashcroft) "He is what he is, and that is bad enough. The man is insensitive to gays, an antiabortion zealot, a gun nut and hardly a fan -- or even a supporter -- of civil rights legislation. He has shown a certain numbness to minority sensitivities -- women as well as blacks -- but more often than not he has had clear, if repugnant, ideological reasons for his positions. I don't like Ashcroft, but I am not -- I aver -- anti-white……" " Looking back on the Ronnie White episode, it's clear that Ashcroft distorted the record for his own purposes.It's clear also that he represents positions that the American people do not support and that in no way can be claimed to have triumphed in the election. He should not have been nominated and he should not be confirmed -- not because of what he's not but because of what he is. That's bad enough." From Washington Post Article entitled Oppose Him, But Ashcroft Is No Racist By Richard Cohen from The Washington Post Thursday, January 11, 2001 ; Page A27

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (9284)	1/11/2001 4:46:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 10042

I heard a report on Ashcroft yesterday on NPR that pointed out that while in the Senate Ashcroft iced a number of Clinton's appointments to the Federal judiciary on purely ideological grounds. Apparently there's a Senatorial process called a 'hold' that allows a single senator to stop a confirmation hearing indefinitely. There was apparently no question of the judges being unqualified -- and Ashcroft said so -- they were just too liberal for his taste. Well, I say that sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. I do not want to see a far-right ideologue as Attorney General, however qualified he may be, and I hope the Democrats in the Senate get their opposition to him together in time. I particularly do not want to see a far-right Attorney General in the administration of a Republican who ran as a centrist, and didn't even win the popular vote at that.