Often, we hear equally disturbing words in more genteel quarters. To be sure, Senator Lieberman is not unique in his acquiescence to this sickening sin, now exalted to the status of a civil right. And during his campaign for the nation's highest office, former Vice President Al Gore diffidently admitted that he saw no legal or moral obstacle to the execution of a female death-row inmate during pregnancy. But this is perhaps a subject for another day, and a fertile subject at that. We will let the reader draw his or her own conclusions.
Progressivism is sometimes selfish, intolerant, boorish, unfair, mean-spirited and ugly.
As a senator, John Ashcroft voted in favor of elevating more than 20 black judges to positions on the federal circuit courts. He voted against one black judge, the Honorable Ronnie White, a jurist who is not without prudence and intelligence, not without moderation and caution, but also someone who made a puzzling decision, involving the commutation of a death sentence in the case of a particularly violent prisoner. This decision prompted Ashcroft and other death-penalty advocates to oppose Judge White's nomination to a higher bench. On account of his opposition to Judge White's advancement, John Ashcroft is a racist. So we are told.