Compassionate conservatives.Just hours after Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan Melvin Eugene "Mel" Carnahan (February 11, 1934 – October 16, 2000) was an American politician who was Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000. A Democrat, he died in a plane crash on the Pevely and Hillsboro, Missouri border during a campaign for the U.S. was declared dead in the Oct. 16 plane crash, the chatter on St. Louis religious right radio was that Carnahan must certainly now be in hell for his stands on abortion rights. The radio talk became decidedly more compassionate after the new governor, Roger Wilson, declared that he would ask Jean Carnahan Jean Anne Carpenter Carnahan (born December 20 1933) is an American politician and writer who served in the United States Senate from 2001 to 2002. A Democrat, she was appointed to the Senate to fill the seat of her posthumously elected husband to serve a two-year term as U.S. Senator, as stipulated under state law, should her late husband outpoll out·poll tr.v. out·polled, out·poll·ing, out·polls To win more votes than: She outpolled her rival by a wide margin. incumbent-Sen. John Ashcroft John David Ashcroft (born May 9 1942) is an American politician who was the 79th United States Attorney General. He served during the first term of President George W. Bush from 2001 until 2005. Ashcroft was previously the Governor of Missouri (1985 – 1993) and a U.S. on Nov. 7. Wilson's declaration about the possibility of a Jean Carnahan appointment prompted apocalyptic fits of compassion among many on the religious right. Suddenly there was heartfelt sympathy for Jean Carnahan's right to grieve, to have time for healing, to be left alone--to be spared sordid political talk. |
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