“Bill Bennett has joined the Cain attackers”
No real surprise here.
Not the first time Bill Bennett has attacked a conservative. Makes me wonder what is in it for him this time.
Then-Democrat Bill Bennett got his National Endowment for the Humanities job during the Reagan administration by savaging the scholarly Mel Bradford in order to get him out of the way.
It was one of the first political hit jobs by the neoconservative faction within the GOP and showed their true colors.
Mel Bradford’s defenders included John East, Jesse Helms, John Tower, Strom Thurmond, Jeremiah Denton, Dan Quayle Russell Kirk, Jeffrey Hart, William Buckley, Gerhart Niemeyer, Stanton Evans, Andrew Lytle, and even his old debating foe Harry Jaffa.
Bennett’s gang of character assassins included Bill Kristol and Norman Podhoretz. When it came to political street fighting the courtly Bradford and his defenders proved no contest to these thugs.
Bill Bennett is a true believer in the power big government to do good.
Big government conservatives are just as dangerous as big government liberals.