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Pulled football's version of the Triple Crown - accused of being a drunk, a racist and a quitter...
...Ashcroft's written responses; they're also waiting to see FBI financial reports, several speeches, and the complete videotape of Ashcroft's 1999 commencement address at Bob Jones University. Ashcroft's affiliation with the controversial school has raised eyebrows among his detractors, who point to college founder Bob Jones' racist and anti-Catholic convictions - and wonder aloud just how far they actually are from Ashcroft...
...uniting moderate Republicans behind Ashcroft. They became equally angry over what they considered a mudslinging campaign from the White House, civil rights groups and the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, Patrick Leahy, in the aftermath of the vote. "Every Republican who voted against White was branded a racist," says Republican Committee member Michael DeWine, who is proud of his civil rights record. However painful it will be to relive the White vote, it would be hard for any Republican to change his mind...
...nexus between private behavior and public virtue. No one is claiming that Ashcroft himself is anything but a paragon of virtue in his private life. Judge Ronnie White, the black jurist blocked by Ashcroft from ascending the judicial ladder, says that he does not believe the man is a racist. But at some level, what irks Ashcroft's critics is that there is some discrepancy between his private virtue and his public life. He preaches tolerance in private but may not practice it in public. He preaches love of his fellow man in his faith but then doesn't seem...
...shot at explanations, saying of his Ronnie White opposition, "I believe that I acted properly in carrying out my duties as a member of the Senate in relation to Judge Ronnie White," and responding even more forcefully to questions about his inclusion in the neo-Confederate (some say racist) Southern Partisan magazine. "I repudiate racist organizations, racist ideas," he said. "[The] question is, will people have confidence in me, and I assure them that they will, because I will serve and I will serve well. I will enforce the law. I reject racism. I reach out to people, all people...