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Date: Saturday, December 30, 2000 1:19 AM
Subject: [CCNN] Bipartisan?


>
>   December 29, 2000
>
>   Affirmative amnesia
>
>   [INLINE]
>
>   Ward Connerly
>
>        Everyone is counseling President-elect Bush to "heal" our nation,
>   "reach out" to the other side, "bridge the gap" between Republicans
>   and Democrats, and "govern from the center." The premise is that Mr.
>   Bush ran on a platform that was decidedly different from that of Vice
>   President Al Gore and because the election was so close the victor
>   needs to share the spoils.
>        This is a flawed premise. On many issues, the difference between
>   "compassionate conservatism" and what Mr. Gore offered the nation was
>   six of one and half-a-dozen of another. For the most part, Mr. Bush
>   has no difficulty governing from the "center," because that is how he
>   campaigned and, I believe, that is how he would govern even if he had
>   won by a decisive majority.
>        What troubles me most about all of this healing stuff is the fact
>   that Republicans are always expected to "feel the pain" of Democrats
>   but the roles are never reversed. You can bank on the fact that
>   whenever civic "healing" is proposed, it is always those
>   left-of-center whose wounds need to be licked.
>        I would feel a lot better about the good faith and sincerity of
>   this healing process if the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus and
>   Jesse Jackson felt our pain and apologized for characterizing Mr. Bush
>   and other Republicans as racists hell-bent on dragging black people
>   behind pick-up trucks to their deaths. The cries to "bring us
>   together" would not ring so hollow if Mr. Gore would apologize to
>   Justice Clarence Thomas for maligning him when addressing black
>   audiences during the campaign.
>        And while we are at it, it would sure be a nice gesture if Mr.
>   Jackson said he overreacted when he announced his intention to open an
>   office of the Rainbow Coalition in Tallahassee because "Florida is the
>   scene of the crime. It is what Birmingham and Selma were 30 years
>   ago." If horse manure were music, Mr. Jackson's "disenfranchisement"
>   theme song would be a symphony.
>        There is another aspect to this healing talk that I want to get
>   off my chest. What about some of the rest of us who were shunted aside
>   during the Bush campaign? We seethed in silence, as we watched the
>   Republican convention not from the convention floor as delegates but
>   from our television sets. We were good soldiers and did whatever we
>   were asked to do to support Mr. Bush's election. Whenever
>   solicitations were made for funds, we contributed. Whenever bodies
>   were needed for rallies, we rounded up the troops. Whenever our own
>   supporters needed to be energized, we traveled far and wide to give
>   speeches urging Republicans to go to the polls and deliver the votes.
>        We witnessed our candidate distance himself from us in an
>   appearance at the national convention of the NAACP. We were abused by
>   Colin Powell in prime time as he mocked us for opposing race
>   preferences but not speaking out loudly enough about "preferences for
>   lobbyists."
>        How about a little healing of our wounds, huh?
>        Sometimes I just don't understand my party's leadership, such as
>   the occasion when former Speaker Newt Gingrich invited Jesse Jackson
>   to sit in his box for one of President Bill Clinton's State of the
>   Union addresses. No one bashed Mr. Gingrich more during his reign as
>   speaker and after he resigned than Mr. Jackson. Similarly, no one was
>   more vituperative against Mr. Bush than Mr. Jackson.
>        From the convention floor of the Democrat Party, this political
>   operative bellowed, "Stay out the Bushes." Throughout the campaign,
>   Mr. Jackson characterized Mr. Bush as essentially the Second Coming of
>   George Wallace and Lester Maddox. After the election, he likened Mr.
>   Bush's election to something that would happen in Yugoslavia. The
>   morning of the day that Mr. Gore conceded, Mr. Jackson could be seen
>   telling Katie Couric that the Bush brothers had conspired to deny
>   black people their right to vote.
>        What did Mr. Jackson, as one of the primary cheerleaders of one
>   of the most racist campaigns in American history, get for his efforts
>   to delegitimize the election of Mr. Bush? He gained legitimacy by
>   being able to talk to Mr. Bush on the day after Mr. Gore's concession.
>   Will someone please explain this to me? Is it a function of the
>   principle that the squeaky wheel gets the grease? Is it because Mr.
>   Bush is more comfortable healing the wounds of his enemies than those
>   of his allies? I wonder how many of us who strongly supported Mr. Bush
>   and from an early stage but who were forced to stand on the sidelines
>   being taken for granted and seething in silence, would have had our
>   calls accepted as Mr. Jackson did. How many of us would receive an
>   invitation to meet with the president-elect?
>        Deep in my soul, I want Mr. Bush to be the president of all
>   Americans. But, charity begins at home and I would urge him not to
>   forget those of us who toiled in ways far more significant than he
>   will ever realize to bring about his victory. But, most importantly,
>   he should remember that those who want him to feel their pain should
>   be made to feel a little of his own.
>
>    We welcome you opinions. Please email your letters to the editor to
>   [30]letter@twtmail.com. All letters may be edited for clarity and
>   length. Please include your name, daytime telephone number, city and
>   state.
>
>   Ward Connerly is author of "Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race
>   Preferences" and President and CEO of Connerly & Associates, Inc.,
>   based in Sacramento, Calif.
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