From: Gene McAloon 

Your attempt to portray the Democrat's objections to Estrada a racism is
not only inaccurate but dishonest as well.

It is the Democrats who favor minorities, not the Republicans. Estrada's
only qualification for the appointment is his extreme conservatism. Much of
the opposition to his appointment comes from Latinos who see his
appointment as contrary to their overall agenda. The remark made in the
memo about it being difficult to oppose Estrada if he should get the
appointment and later be nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court concerns
the all too frequent fact that minorities will sometimes support a minority
candidate for high office just
to get one of their own race such a position, regardless of his politics.
Think Thomas in that regard.

From an electoral politics point of view, most Latinos vote Democratic, not
Republican, and do so because they see the Democrats as favoring those
policies most useful to them. Bush nominated Estrada only because he is
sufficiently conservative and because he hopes to attract Latino votes. It
points up how cynical the far-right can be when it nominates minorities to
high positions assuming they are sufficiently conservative and doing that
despite the Republican party's long history of racial bigotry.

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:32:09 -0500, "Mark Hessey"
 wrote:

>
>"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
>news:40134ff3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > I don't know if I should talk to you anymore 
>>
>> Just trying to get you to think rather than willingly give up your rights
>> for *nothing*.
>
>I've been thinking about it and I still have no overwhelming problems with
>the act. "Patriot Acting Out The phony case against an antiterror law:"
>http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004586
>
>> I still don't think we'll have long to wait for the election of a
>democratic
>> president, and if anything more like that computer tampering story today
>> happens, we'll have a democratic congress as well.
>
>Oddly enough (or not) if a Dem had unethically accessed a Rep directory and
>found this kind of crap...
>"...the memo contents, which demonstrate the influence of liberal interest
>groups in choosing which nominees Democratic senators would filibuster.
>Other revelations from the memos include Democrats' race-based
>characterization of Estrada as "especially dangerous, because . . . he is
>Latino," which they feared would make him difficult to block from a later
>promotion to the Supreme Court."
>
>...there'd be a big to-do with news anchors everywhere staring out of the TV
>with sad eyes, downturned lips and quavering voices decrying that content
>and those nasty racist Republicans with nary a mention of the unethical file
>access (except perhaps to blame the Reps for making it possible by hiring an
>incompetent IT guy).
>
>While I don't support the means of the access, if same does anything to help
>curtail their racism in the future, it'll have been worth it for a few staff
>to lose their jobs for the access. But what it'll do is have all
"strategic"
>planning done orally only (and only after sweeping Martha's Vineyard for
>bugs) providing bug locatons .>
>
>

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