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Article #889Re: Supreme Court halts Florida vote count: A black day for American democracy
From: Larry Kessler
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:14
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:14
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:46:13 -0500, "MnD @ PLN" <mnd@pln.cc> wrote: >Can you justify the "Politics of Personal Destruction" by the 'crats w/o >resorting to pointing out similiar actions by others?? In some cases, probably not, because some of the examples I cited (Bork, Thomas, Nixon) were opposed by the Democrats for very good reasons which had little to do with their personal lives. It was wrong and unnecessary to dig into Bork's personal life (his video rental records? I mean!) when his written opinions were more than sufficient reason to oppose him. When Thomas was hitting on Anita Hill while heading up the EEOC that was well within the range of his professional behavior. Nixon's wrongdoing while in office are well-recognized by history. Digging into their personal lives went beyond the pale. In the cases of Gingrich and Livingston, it was the hypocrisy of their campaigning on a platform of "family values" while flouting those values in their private lives which made them so vulnerable, so those personal lives became political.
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