Liberals are attacking the Ashcroft nomination by
saying this:
Ashcroft is opposed to some laws,
so he cannot enforce them as Attorney General.
As I keep pointing out, one thing
you have to do to be a respectable conservative
is to have no memory at all. In this as in so many
other ways, I am not respectable. I remember.
I remember in 1977, when President
Carter's Director of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service said that, if it were up to her, no immigrant
would ever be turned away. She said she only enforced
the law because she had to.
Nobody said a word except my boss,
Congressman John Ashbrook.
You could find incidents of liberals
being against laws they had to enforce in every
administration, but if you did, it would convict
you of having a memory, and therefore of not being
respectable.
Remember that the liberal argument
against Ashcroft is that you cannot enforce a law
you do not approve of. That would seem to mean that
every member of the entire Federal bureaucracy will
have to be given ideological clearance. Their job
is enforcing the laws. How do you think they would
come out on prohibitions on abortion funding?
Another little memory. Remember that
the Supreme Court voted five to four in the Florida
decision that made Bush, Junior, president?
One of the four liberal justices who
fought Bush all the way was Souter. After the liberals
attacked his more conservative Supreme Court nominee,
Bush, Sr., wimped out and appointed Souter, probably
the most liberal justice on the Supreme Court.
So if you were worried about whether
Bush Junior would do to Ashcroft what he did to
Chavez, you had every right to be.
Respectable conservatives forget anything
they are ordered to. When liberals come up for confirmation,
they will forget what was done to Ashcroft.
Respectable conservatives forgot what
was done to another conservative, Newt Gingrich..
When Hillary Clinton got her eight
million dollar book deal, a few conservatives mentioned
that liberals ruined Newt Gingrich because he had
a four million dollar book deal.
But when liberals told them to, respectable
conservatives shut up about the double standard
between Hillary and Gingrich.
Thank God for Fox News! They are respectable
conservatives, but they still dare to have a memory.
Everybody else barely mentioned the
fact that Hillary was getting an eight million dollar
book deal while Gingrich was ruined by the liberals
for half that. On CNN, Greta Sustern told conservatives
to forget the Gingrich campaign of personal destruction,
and the respectables obeyed their orders as always.
But not on Fox News. Fox News has
Gingrich himself on regularly and O'Reilly simply
won't shut up about Hillary's book deal.
Fox is taking over conservative respectability,
and they have more guts than the minor league conservatives
they are taking over from.
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