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- Subject: Re: Zoe Baird, Support Her !!!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <93022.001903KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- From: Kurt Ludwick <KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:19:03 EST
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- In article <C18EDD.5zx@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer
- kyle cramm) says:
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- > Conservatives: now is the time to suppport a Clinton nominee. Mrs. Baird
- >is a good lawyer who believes in many conservative ideas, but she is being
- >publicly lynched over a MINOR infraction.
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- Sorry, no, I can't support this. This is just like when all those feminist
- groups supported Senator Packwood, who virtually confessed to sexual harass-
- ment, because he believed the "correct" things about women's issues.
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- For us to support Zoe Baird would be doing essentially the same thing.
- The situations are not identical, but they are very similar. I will not
- excuse someone of committing a crime just because I like what she stands for.
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- Zoe Baird has been nominated to be the nation's chief law enforcer. How
- credible can she be if she knowingly breaks an immigration law for no
- reason. (As Cokie Roberts said, she could have afforded Mary Poppins.)
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- > Bill's next nominee will not be as conservative as Zoe Baird, and we can't
- >afford someone more liberals.
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- I think (as one of Rush's callers theorized) that Clinton -knew- that Baird
- would not get confirmed. He wanted to make a pretense of wanting some
- conservatism in the cabinet, so people wouldn't think he was a liberal. He
- never intended for someone like Zoe Baird to be attorney general. He just
- wants you to think he did. Ingenious little ploy of his.
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- Kurt E. Ludwick | If PRO is the opposite of CON, then
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- kel111@psuvm.psu.edu | what's the opposite of Progress...?
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