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Democrats target Ashcroft in 2004 presidential race Bush’s attorney general is under attack for his conservative views and Democrats vow to oust him By Michelle Mittelstadt The Dallas Morning News (KRT) WASHINGTON — While George W. Bush is the top target of Democrats on the presidential campaign trail, his attorney general, somewhat unexpect edly, runs a close second. No one else in the Bush adminis tration — not Vice President Dick Ch eney, not Bush chief political adviser Karl Rove, not Defense Secretary Don ald Rumsfeld — draws the sustained barrage of criticism that Democrats in the crowded nine-candidate field train on John Ashcroft. "When I am president there will be no John Ashcroft trampling on the Bill of Rights," Sen. John Kerry, D Mass., said recendy. "John Ashcroft has proven through bad judgment and divisiveness that he is the wrong man to serve in one of the most important jobs in our nation right now," said Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo. "He will not last five minutes in my administration." "He's not much of an attorney, and I know for sure he's not a general," re tired Army Gen. Wesley Clark quipped. Though some of Ashcroft's prede cessors, most recently Janet Reno, served as lightning rods in some ide ological circles, it's not often that an attorney general figures so promi nently in a presidential campaign, po litical and legal observers say. Ashcroft isn't deterred by the scathing words lobbed his way, aides say. "It is campaign season, and when politicians running for national office are out on the stump, they say a lot of silly things," said Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo, dismissing the rhetoric as "red meat for the most extremist part of their base." "We just kind of shrug it off and keep doing our job, * Corallo said. Tapped for the Bush Cabinet after losing his Missouri Senate seat, Ashcroft has long been a flashpoint for Democ rats and liberal advocacy groups op posed to his staunchly conservative views on abortion, guns, judicial nomi nations and other hot-button issues. That animus was reflected in a bitterly divisive Senate confirmation battle that he won by the narrowest margin ever posted for an attorney general. Ashcroft's response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has proved the most po larizing of his tenure as the nation's top law enforcement officer, drawing praise from many quarters for keeping the na tion safe from further attack, but con demnation from dvil libertarians, Arab-American groups and others for the USA Patriot Act and other anti-ter rorism tactics they view as encroach ment on Americans' rights. The fact that four of the five mem bers of Congress vying for the Democ ratic presidential nomination voted for the Patriot Act hasn't stopped them from seizing on Ashcroft as a handy foil in their campaign to limit the Bush ad ministration to a single term. Look for them to continue harp ing on Ashcroft as the campaign continues, political consultants and analysts say. "One of my informal rules of this presidential campaign is, the first per son to attack John Ashcroft in a de bate wins the biggest applause line," said Anita Dunn, a Democratic politi cal consultant who was a top strategist for Bill Bradley's presidential cam paign in 2000. "When I am president there will be no John Ashcroft trampling on the Bill of Rights." Sen. John Kerry D-Mass. "Ashcroft, in many ways, is seen as the logical conclusion of what many Democrats dislike about the Bush administration, which is the percep tion that he is willing to do anything to further his political goals and to use the mechanisms of government to further an ideological agenda," Dunn said. The Democrats' sustained focus on Ashcroft serves both policy and politi cal interests, says political analyst Nor man Omstein of the American Enter prise Institute, allowing the candidates to showcase in shorthand their policy differences with the current administra tion while also rallying their core con stituencies with pointed barbs. "Now with the Patriot Act and the whole set of issues associated with it, his name is a kind of trigger for the things that they don't like and dis trust about the Bush administration in Democratic Party ranks," Orn stein said. "Anything that gets that base's adrenaline flowing, that gets them convinced even more that they have reason to work night and day to remove this administration, is not good news for Bush." (c) 2003, the Dallas Morning News. Distnbuted by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. CAMPUS Tuesday Author event, 7 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room. Author Suzanne Kingsbury will read from her newest book "The Gospel According to Gra de,” which provides a detailed account of the street culture in Atlanta. Scandinavian film series, 7 p.m., EMU Interna tional Resource Center. Featured movie will be "Jerusalem." Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is pub lished daily Monday through Friday during the school year by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.The Emerald operates inde pendently of the University with of fices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is private prop erty. 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