Before the Clarence THOMAS hearings, when DANFORTH nannied him through, all I remember from my much lamented youth was that he was one of those "moderates" willing to "reach out" and "work with" his wingnuts' enemies. Wiki fills in the blanks, that THOMAS was his assistant at the state level, and guess who the cabal of "wunderkind" included: ASHKROFT.
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http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/10/registration_fraud_creates_a_p.html.... John Danforth, a former senator from Missouri and a former United Nations ambassador, said he is deeply concerned "that this election night and the days that follow will be a rerun of 2000, and even worse than 2000." ....
"We believe that this is a potential nightmare," Danforth said this morning at a news conference at the National Press Club. He and Warren Rudman, a former senator from New Hampshire, chair McCain's "Honest and Open Elections Committee."
Rudman described the committee as mostly lawyers who have a lot of experience with elections. The committee proposed that Barack Obama's campaign as well as McCain's identify potentially troublesome precincts in battleground states. Then the campaigns could task volunteers to monitor voting in those precincts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Danforth.... In his first bid to run for public office at any level he was elected in 1968 at the age of 32 to be Missouri's Attorney General. On his staff of assistant attorneys general were Kit Bond, John Ashcroft, and Clarence Thomas.
In 1970 Danforth ran for the United States Senate for the first time, against Democratic incumbent Stuart Symington. Danforth was defeated in a close race.
In 1972 Danforth's colleague Bond was elected Missouri Governor at the age of 33, and Danforth was re-elected Attorney General. The two projected an image of Missouri's young Republican wunderkind in a state that traditionally had been Democratic. ....
...Litton and his entire family were killed when the plane taking them to their victory party in Kansas City crashed on take off in Chillicothe, Missouri. Hearnes, who had finished second in the primary far behind Litton, was appointed to challenge Danforth. Danforth easily won even though Jimmy Carter of Georgia won Missouri in the presidential election. ....
During the 1991 Senate hearings regarding U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Danforth used his considerable clout to aid the confirmation of Thomas, who had served Danforth during his state attorney general years and later as an aide in the Senate. The bond was further strengthened in that both men had studied to be ordained. Thomas was studying to be a Catholic priest at Conception Seminary College in Nodaway County, Missouri when a racial comment he heard at the college about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. caused him to quit. After leaving the seminary, Thomas attended Episcopal services, and Danforth is an ordained Episcopal priest.
A political moderate, Danforth was once quoted as saying he joined the Republican Party for "the same reason you sometimes choose which movie to see —
the one with the shortest line". ....
Battles with the Christian Right — On March 30, 2005, Danforth wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times critical of the Republican party. The article began: "By a series of recent initiatives, Republicans have transformed our party into the political arm of conservative Christians...". The article by an ordained Episcopal priest (followed by a June 17, 2005 piece headlined "Onward, Moderate Christian Soldiers") ignited considerable debate both pro and con. The Washington Post on February 2, 2006, headlined its article "'St. Jack' and the Bullies in the Pulpit". Danforth is the author of the book Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together. ....
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