Ashcroft was grilled by liberals in his
confirmation hearings. Teddy Kennedy led the attack. Ashcroft
apologized to Kennedy for opposing a racial balance program
in Missouri schools when he was state attorney general.
Ashcroft repeatedly begged Kennedy to understand
that he was "for integration." He has been in
the Senate with Kennedy for a long time, and he knows
very well what being "for integration" means
to Kennedy.
Kennedy sends his grandchildren to private
schools, and he backed the imposition of busing on South
Boston. It was ordered by Judge Garrity, who also sent
his grandchildren to private schools, as do all judges
who order busing. Kennedy fully supported the use of the
National Guard to enforce busing on South Boston.
Kennedy backed busing in Louisville, where
children would be out waiting for the buses at 5 am so
they could be bused into dangerous inner city schools.
They returned home long after dark. In other words, they
had the same hours that we so deplore in child labor from
the
nineteenth century.
Ashcroft apologized to Kennedy for daring
to oppose "desegregation" programs in Missouri.
He assured Kennedy that the ONLY reason he opposed that
particular program was because of the COST. He made it
clear that any cost to the children was of no importance
to him whatsoever.
Needless to say, most conservatives had
no problem with that, but they were sickened by Ashcroft's
groveling in other areas, such as abortion. He licked
Kennedy's boots clean and shiny.
I enjoyed it, because conservatives were
seeing what I watched close up over the long, long years.
I watched all those loudmouth conservative "heroes"
do the same crawl when they were closeted with liberals.
When Mel Laird was in Congress, he was in
committee with my boss John Ashbrook. He started off a
negotiation by saying that pretty well anything the Democrats
wanted was reasonable. Ashbrook leaned toward the microphone
and said, in a stage whisper, "What a prostitute!"
Laird was rewarded by Ford with the position
of Secretary of Defense. He was a true Bush-Ford Republican.
Please don't say you are disappointed in
Ashcroft.
Surely no one is ignorant enough to believe
that what you saw was some kind of changed man. What you
were looking at was a typical conservative leader dealing
with liberals.
When Mitch McConnell was fighting campaign
finance "reform" legislation last year, the
word went around that "He fights like a Democrat."
He was that unique in not backing down on the issue most
important to him.
Inside the beltway, all conservative "leaders"
are wimps when they are dealing directly with liberals.
I watched them cave in and crawl before the liberals year
after year after weary year.
A couple of years ago, I saw Trent Lott
regaling a conservative crowd with his brave criticism
of liberal press bias. A couple of days later, while he
was being interviewed on a network program, a reporter
asked him how the press dealt with conservatives. He declared
they were fair!
So all this is no secret. When faced with
a real reporter or a real Teddy Kennedy, these conservative
"leaders" will grovel right out there in public.
Conservatives pretend they don't see it.
No matter how many exhausted children are
bussed across Louisville or how many Boston working people
might have to be killed for integration, Teddy Kennedy
will never offer the slightest apology for anything he
does. Nor will Barney Frank or any other liberal. Their
liberal supporters won't stand for it.
But if a liberal shouts "racist"
or "extremist" or any of the many versions of
"anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews," any conservative
who wants to get ahead drops on his knees instantly.
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