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Subject: Der Fuerer BUSH and the Weyrich SS
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Date: Tue, Nov 21, 2000 10:27 PM
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George W. Bush: stealth candidate of the ultraright
By Tim Wheeler
"Stealth" is the operative word in describing the
ultraright�s low-profile ties to Republican presidential
candidate George W. Bush. He is their Trojan horse as the
GOP seeks to recoup setbacks suffered in recent years.
Just how many secret strategy sessions Bush has held with
the Rev. Pat Robertson, founder of the right-wing Christian
Coalition, and other gurus of the ultraright is anybody�s
guess. Reports have surfaced of several of these closed-door
meetings, indicating that Bush is counting on these
extremists to turn out the foot soldiers � and the voters �
for the Nov. 7 election even as he keeps them at arm�s
length.
Last October, Bush spoke to a meeting in San Antonio of the
Council for National Policy (CNP), the most secretive
leadership body of the ultraright. People like the infamous
Lt. Col. Oliver North, Golden Rule Life Insurance CEO J.
Patrick Rooney, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and Robertson are
CNP members.
Tapes of what other speakers said at this secret confab were
sent out to CNP members, but Bush refuses to release the
text of his speech. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said the
media is on a "wild goose chase" if they expect to hear that
he told the right wingers "something that he hasn�t said
publicly."
But Democratic National Committee Chairman Joe Andrew said,
"If Governor Bush just gave his normal stump speech, then
what is he hiding? Why is he refusing to release a copy of
his address?"
Did Bush promise these rightwingers that if he is elected
president he will pack the Supreme Court with clones of
Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas who will
overturn abortion rights and nullify the Voting Rights Act
of 1965?
Bush also spoke last October to the Christian Coalition�s
"Road to Victory" conference in Washington. His anti-
abortion rhetoric was greeted with standing ovations from
the 3,500 in attendance.
Later, Bush held a private meeting with "about a dozen
conservative religious leaders," according to a brief report
carried by the Scripps-Howard News Service Oct. 8.
The 90 minute meeting was convened to "assuage concerns that
Bush might be soft on abortion, homosexual rights, school
choice, state-church separation and other issues," according
to the story.
Organized by Michael Harris of the right-wing Home School
Defense League, those attending included ultra-right guru
Paul Weyrich, Eagle Forum head Phyllis Schlafly, Randy Tate
of the Christian Coalition and Morton Blackwell of the
Leadership Institute. Again, strict secrecy was imposed.
The Republican Party high command knows full well that their
popularity with voters is in steep decline.
Their record, which has caused a sharp dive in their
support, includes:
� Arrogantly shutting down the federal government in 1995;
� The impeachment of President Clinton;
� The "Contract on America;"
� Their assault on affirmative action, abortion rights and
civil rights;
� Failed attempts to push through "Paycheck Deception"
ballot measures like California�s Proposition 226, which
would hog-tie unions from involvement in elections;
� Their drive to privatize Social Security, Medicare, public
education and prisons;
� Their refusal to support legislation to curb hate crimes.
Voters punished them at the polls in two successive
elections in 1996 and 1998 forcing then-House Speaker Newt
Gingrich to resign. Now the ultraright fears it will fail to
regain the White House and could lose majority control of
the House where they now hold a razor thin six vote
majority. They risk losing even the Senate.
They look back nostalgically on their high-water mark, the
election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984. They see in
George W. Bush some of the same "affable" and "amiable"
qualities that made Reagan such a skilled demagogue.
But they know Bush will never win if voters understand that
his folksy manner hides a mean-spirited right-wing heart.
It is a paradox that, while posing as a "compassionate
conservative," Bush and his family have the longest standing
ties with outright fascism of any U.S. political family.
George W.�s grandfather, Prescott Bush, later a U.S. senator
from Connecticut, had profitable ties to Adolph Hitler�s
Third Reich back in the early 1930s. As a partner in the
Wall Street investment bank, Brown Brothers, Harriman and
Co., Prescott served as U.S. financier for Fritz Thyssen,
the German steel magnate who bankrolled Hitler�s seizure of
power.
When Prescott agreed to serve on the board of Thyssen�s
Union Banking Corporation, Thyssen had already published a
notorious pro-Hitler tract titled, "I Paid Hitler."
Under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the Franklin Roosevelt
administration seized Prescott Bush�s holdings in Thyssen�s
Union Banking Corp.
These links, never publicly repudiated by the Bush family,
help explain the elder George Bush�s "damage control"
assignment during the Nixon Watergate crisis, thought by
many to be the closest the U.S. ever came to a fascist coup
d�etat.
Nixon appointed Bush chair of the Republican Party with the
assignment of unifying the party in support of his
administration as the calls for his impeachment reached a
crescendo.
Bush sided with those urging Nixon to fight to the finish.
Bush later was appointed CIA director to oversee damage
control at the spy agency and save the CIA from a growing
chorus of calls for its abolition.
As Vice President in the Reagan administration, George Bush
was also at the center of the Iran-Contra "hostages"
conspiracy in violation of a congressional ban on aid to the
contras. His office became the headquarters for the illegal
and unconstitutional wars in Central America against the
Sandinista government of Nicaragua and liberation forces in
El Salvador.
Of course, the major event of President George Bush�s one-
term in office was the Persian Gulf War and the embargo of
Iraq, which continues to this day with hundreds of thousands
of Iraqi children dying of hunger and disease.
Until this week Bush kept a low profile so as not to rattle
the skeletons in the family closet, endangering his son�s
election hopes.
But the father couldn�t resist when it came to the selection
his son�s vice presidential running mate. George senior
strongly urged the nomination of his ultra-conservative
Defense Secretary, Richard Cheney for the vice presidential
slot. The elder Bush and Cheney became fast friends during
the Persian Gulf War.
George W. Bush�s own close ties to the ultraright are
underlined by his selection of Ralph Reed, former executive
director of the Christian Coalition, to serve as one of his
closest political advisers. Bush�s donors have so far
contributed $73 million to his presidential election and the
list is heavy with ultra-rightists.
A report, "The Governor�s Gusher" by Texans for Public
Justice, discloses that Fred Malek has given $10,000 to
George W.�s campaigns. Back in 1972, Malek served as deputy
director of Nixon�s Committee to Reelect the President. At
Nixon�s request, Malek drew up an "enemies list" of people
in the Bureau of Labor Standards whom Nixon described as a
"Jewish cabal" out to get him.
In 1988, Malek was named manager of the Bush/Quayle
campaign. He was forced to resign when Russ Bellant, an
investigative journalist, uncovered his and then Vice
President Bush�s close ties to �migr� Nazi war criminals.
Bellant wrote a report, "Old Nazis, the New Right and the
Reagan Administration," exposing the GOP�s links to �migr�
Eastern European organizations riddled with Nazi
collaborators. Bush had even attended a "Captive Nations"
banquet in Warren, Mich. July 20, 1988, in which he hailed
the "patriotism" of these fanatical anti-Communist, anti-
Semitic �migr�s.
Today George W. contiues to cultivate the links with the
extremist right wing. Here is a partial roster of some of
his ultra-right donors:
� Ray L. Hunt, son of the notorious Texas oil billionaire
H.L. Hunt and the moneybags of the John Birch Society, has
given Bush at least $105,000.
� Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who orchestrated Margaret
Thatcher�s rise to power in England and also backed Reagan�s
quest for the U.S. presidency, has given $10,000 so far.
� J. Patrick Rooney, CEO of the Golden Rule Life Insurance,
has given $7,700. Rooney was a top donor to House Speaker
Newt Gingrich. He is a supporter of privatizing Social
Security and Medicare since it would enrich his firm. Rooney
also poured money into California ballot initiatives like
Prop. 226.
� James R. Lighter of Dallas gave Bush $15,000. He is the
owner of Electrospace Systems, which depends heavily on
Pentagon and NASA contracts. He has contributed heavily to
the election efforts of David Duke, Grand Wizard of the Ku
Klux Klan.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell convened a closed-door meeting in
Dallas last fall to plan an all-out drive to mobilize
evangelical Christians for Bush and other GOP candidates.
A decision was reached there to launch a "People of Faith
2000" campaign to raise tens of millions of dollars and
mobilize millions of voters for the election. Falwell plans
to register 10 million religious conservatives between now
and November and to turn out 35 million voters Nov. 7.
On April 14, Falwell�s front group, Liberty Alliance
Institute, mailed out fund appeal letters seeking $25
million for the election drive. In his letter, Falwell
denounces Vice President Al Gore for "lying" about his
meetings with Bush and Robertson.
"By fabricating this false story, Mr. Gore is sending a
clear signal that Christians will be the target of a focused
assault by his campaign in this election."
Gore, he charged, is "openly courting the radical homosexual
movement," adding, "If Christian voters fail to vote in
record-breaking numbers in 2000 ... the anti-Christian Left
will very likely end up taking control of all three branches
of our federal government."
Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for
Separation of Church and State, convened a Washington news
conference May 11 to announce that his group had filed a
complaint with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) accusing
Falwell of violating federal tax law, which prohibits tax-
exempt groups from engaging in partisan politics.
"If the IRS needs a smoking gun, this is it," Lynn said.
"Falwell�s letter makes it abundantly clear this voter
project has blatantly partisan goals."
Meanwhile, Robertson shrugged off reports that the Christian
Coalition is sharply divided and deeply in debt, with many
chapters dissolving. He announced at a March news conference
in Washington that his group will raise $21 million and
distribute 75 million voter guides � all aimed at electing
Bush and a GOP Congress.
Green Party presidential nominee Ralph Nader says there are
no genuine differences between Democrat Al Gore and Bush.
Saying this, Nader helps reinforce the media campaign to
cover up Bush�s ties to the ultraright. In effect, Nader
assists the drive to transform Bush into a moderate
conservative.
In fact, hoping to lure votes away from the Democrats, Nader
directs most of his fire at Gore. So does Reform Party
candidate Pat Buchanan, a neo-fascist. And, of course, so
does Bush. Gore is the target of all three.
But defenders of the Bill of Rights, racially oppressed
minorities, women and organized labor sharply reject this
dangerous "pox on both your houses" line. They see that Bush
is the agent of the oil monopolies, the military industrial
complex and the ultraright. His defeat is imperative.
Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Employees and chair of the AFL-
CIO�s Political Action Committee, put it bluntly:
"For the first time in modern memory, everyone on the right
� big business, the wealthy elite, conservative extremists �
have united behind one candidate. And they are behind Bush
because he is their shot. He�s their opportunity to turn the
2000 elections into an eight-year mandate to take on labor,
destroy government programs, put profits before people and
roll back every meaningful step we�ve taken towards social
and economic justice."
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>> Here's another wonderful quote: "You fucking son of a bitch.
>> I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this."
>> -George W. Bush to writer and editor Al Hunt, 1998
>> WHORE / JEWBERMAN 2000 (<A HREF="http://www.algorethelyingwhore.com)">
http://www.algorethelyingwhore.com)</A>
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