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Bush's Efforts to Court the Catholic Vote Takes a Slight Detour
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| MisterOpus1 |
Oh so slight:
| quote: | Catholic publisher quits Bush campaign
David D. Kirkpatrick
New York Times
Published August 19, 2004
Deal W. Hudson, the publisher of the conservative Roman Catholic journal Crisis and the architect of a Republican effort to court Catholic voters, said he is resigning as an adviser to the Bush campaign because of a Catholic newspaper's investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct. The accusations involve a student at a college where he once taught.
"No one regrets my past mistakes more than I do," Hudson wrote in a column posted Wednesday on the online edition of National Review announcing his resignation. "At the time, I dealt with this in an upright manner and the matter was satisfactorily resolved long ago," he wrote, without specifying the accusations. Hudson, 54, said he had been happily married to his current wife for 17 years. Called for comment, he declined.
At Fordham University, a Jesuit school in New York where Hudson taught from 1989 to 1995, a university spokeswoman confirmed that the episode had led to Hudson's resignation. The spokeswoman, Elizabeth Schmalz, said: "Fordham followed its policy rigorously in this matter and initiated an investigation upon receipt of the student complaint. The professor later surrendered his tenure at Fordham." Schmalz added, "Something inappropriate was done."
A person involved with the university's investigation said that a female undergraduate in one of Hudson's classes reported to the university that, after she had become drunk at a bar, Hudson made sexual advances toward her. After several weeks, she charged him with sexual harassment. The accusations were made near the end of a school year, and Hudson left academia.
Hudson, a former Southern Baptist who converted to Catholicism at the age of 34, has been an influential adviser to President Bush and a close friend of White House political strategist Karl Rove since the late 1990s. Hudson first caught Rove's attention by publishing a study in Crisis in 1998 arguing that Republican candidates could make inroads among traditionally Democratic-leaning Catholic voters by focusing on regular churchgoers, a strategy that dove-tailed with Bush's emphasis on "compassionate conservatism."
Hudson signed on as an adviser to Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, and for the last four years has been a prominent participant in a weekly conference call held by the Republican National Committee with influential Catholic supporters.
© Copyright 2004 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4935870.html
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| JM |
so i assume you want me to comment to that story right?
drunk college chick. bar. a guy.
you're gay.
enough said.
>JM< |
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| MisterOpus1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by JM
so i assume you want me to comment to that story right? |
Nope, you don't have to comment on it at all. In fact, I don't recall explicitly asking for your particular comment, esp. when you have cute little sophmoric ad hominem attacks like the one below.
But of course I have no control over your immature impulses and trivial attempts at flaming, so oh well.
| quote: | | drunk college chick. bar. a guy. |
The guy was a ing professor at a Jesuit school for Christ's sakes, hitting on a student!
Strike one
Bush's advisors failed to do a little background checking on this guy. Serious egg on their faces.
Strike two
| quote: | you're gay.
enough said
>JM<
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Well I guess I can oblige and stoop to your level for a quickie:
You're a half-wit, ignoramous typical conservative tool who goes by the typical conservative playbook when confronted with an issue that doesn't work in your favor:
Go ad hominem.
If that's the best you can do, I suggest you go back to your little COR playground and let the adults do the talking here.
'kay, son? |
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| Shakka |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
I suggest you go back to your little COR playground and let the adults do the talking here.
'kay, son? |
Coming from a guy who talks about sticking pickles in his honker!:D
just joking. I think we're getting more and more COR spillover as the election approaches and everyone becomes a political aficionado. I know I'm one! lol.:wtf: :disbelief :D |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
Nope, you don't have to comment on it at all. In fact, I don't recall explicitly asking for your particular comment, esp. when you have cute little sophmoric ad hominem attacks like the one below.
But of course I have no control over your immature impulses and trivial attempts at flaming, so oh well.
The guy was a ing professor at a Jesuit school for Christ's sakes, hitting on a student!
Strike one
Bush's advisors failed to do a little background checking on this guy. Serious egg on their faces.
Strike two
Well I guess I can oblige and stoop to your level for a quickie:
You're a half-wit, ignoramous typical conservative tool who goes by the typical conservative playbook when confronted with an issue that doesn't work in your favor:
Go ad hominem.
If that's the best you can do, I suggest you go back to your little COR playground and let the adults do the talking here.
'kay, son? |
LMAO! That was hilarious. :toothless |
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