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Originally Posted by Ustwo
If Kerry was in power for 4 years then yes I would, I can only go by his record, not what he will have done. Ashcroft has been there as a buggaboo of left wingers since the start, and guess what, nothing has happened. Hell there really isn't anything he COULD do, as unlike a liberal judge, he can't write laws. You would only have something to fear in Ashcroft if the law itself changed, which again he has no power to do.
He was just a manufactured bogeyman since it is a lot harder to demonize the likeable GWB.
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Ashcroft had a record before he came into the White House and it was one of far right ideology. He positions on gay rights, abortion, birth control, desegregation and a host of other issues marked him as a far right moral majority type. Why such an extreme individual would be nominated to attorney general is baffling to me but the opposition to him is understandable when seen in the light of his record.
As for what he got accomplished during his tenure as AG, I'd say that he deserves a share of the credit for the policy of secret arrests and "indefinite" detentions for "terror" suspects. Circumventing citizen's legal protections hardly seems like an admirable quality in an attorney general to me.