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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.
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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."
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