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History and Hysteria
Conservatives and Ashcroft. Trigger fingers. Beirut revisited. And more.
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Your column on some conservatives being upset by the actions of John Ashcroft brings to mind the oft proven statement that the GOP “eat their young” in fighting the opposition.
It now appears that Mr. Norquist et al. are pursuing that same tack and of course the “enemy” as exemplified by the New York Times is gladly seizing that tendency with “above the fold” headline treatment. The same treatment I watched them use to “assassinate” Barry Goldwater.
p>With friends like Mr. Norquist, who needs enemies? br> — Kenneth E. Wyman /p> p> I too, of course, read the latest installment of “Get George Bush” in the Times . Yeah, Grover Norquist, found hip-deep in a Wahhabi woodpile in our glorious Old Dominion, and Paul Weyrich, a blow-hard has-been, are indeed indicative of all of us conservatives. Wouldn’t it have been nice if Neil “Howl, Jr.” Lewis had bothered to interview some other conservatives? John Ashcroft has been GWB’s most-inspired Cab choice. He couldn’t give a rat’s behind what the
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