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I have followed John Ashcroft's career for a long time. If you think he will be put off by the fact that he will get beat, you really don't know much about him.

As State Attorney General he took two or three Missouri laws re abortion all the way to the Supreme Court, knowing fully well he would lose at every step along the way. He did it to ensure his support by his political base, and for idealogical reasons.

I hope you are right about porn.

It's really hard to say whether Ashcroft would have done better than Reno did back in 94(?) - she did give the order and accepted responsibility, but the inability of her underlings to deal with the situation was institutional, not political.

I don't see a lot of sense in trying to make this a liberal vs conservative issue. The only way you can shoehorn constitutional rights into this issue is to drag in the 2nd Ammendment into it - and to do so would put you very far outside of anything resembling mainstream opinion. As far as the right to a fair trial or trial by their peers for the wackos from Waco - we never got that far. Are you questioning the right of the government to detain suspects? That's really what Waco was an attempt to do. A clusterfuck, to be sure- but they denied themselves their day in court by refusing to be apprehended.