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...interview in Southern Partisan, Ashcroft praised the neo-Confederate magazine for defending "Southern patriots" like Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson. The magazine has long argued slavery was beneficial to blacks...
Bush's political advisers decided to keep Ashcroft under wraps, away from the press. "They hope that if they don't have John talk," says an Ashcroft partisan, "the conversation will cease." But it had already become clear that Ashcroft's vote count had fallen from 70 to around 60 as the interest groups on the left were able to concentrate their fire on him. G.O.P. leader Trent Lott announced last week that all 50 Senate Republicans were lined up to confirm--it takes only a simple majority--but that was as much a brave hope as a real prediction...
...John Ashcroft's nomination for Attorney General and Gale Norton's for Interior Secretary, the Civil War has appeared like one of those weekend battle re-enactments with folks in period costume. Ashcroft is under fire for giving an interview to a pro-Confederate magazine, Southern Partisan, in which he praised icons like Jefferson Davis while lauding the publication for helping "set the record straight." Two columnists for the magazine are members of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a self-styled "white-rights" group based in St. Louis, Mo., which is part of the coalition supporting Ashcroft's nomination...
...politicians get into trouble when some pro-Confederate groups--who go beyond simply honoring the soldiers and seem to show sympathy for slavery--join today's political fray. One of John McCain's backers in last year's crucial South Carolina primary, for instance, was the editor of Southern Partisan. At the time, Bush and McCain were dodging the question of whether South Carolina should keep flying the Confederate battle flag over the state capitol, because they didn't want to alienate white Southern voters. The flag had flown there since 1962, a states'-rights rebuff to desegregation...
...counting, and the hypocrisy of wanting ballots counted when it suited the G.O.P. and not wanting them tallied when it didn't, the simple truth is that the Bush team prevented a proper recount on the presumption that it had lost Florida and therefore the presidency. Aided by a partisan Supreme Court decision, Bush is now President-elect. He may have the largely ceremonial public endorsement of his former opponents, but this does not make him a legitimate President. Politically speaking, the Republicans got away with murder. JOE MANRESA Schiedam, the Netherlands...