> Actually Casey was a huge liberal on domestic
> spending stuff, outside the abortion question.
>
> I've also heard that the ban on his speaking
> at the convention entailed more than his anti-
> abortion posture. It's somewhere in the archives
> of my blog, from way back, but I have no idea
> where.
My understanding is that it was because he had refused to endorse Clinton, even after he was the certain nominee. I've also heard that it wasn't a total ban, but a refusal to give him a prime-time slot.
Best, Peter
> mbs
While most of the black Republican speakers defended the GOP on social issues, the final speaker at the event, former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, came equipped with a big wet blanket. "I am ashamed of some of the policies of the party," Brooke said to the suddenly silent crowd. "Conservatism unfortunately has come to mean opposition to civil rights, to reformers, opposition to campaign finance reform, to urban Americans, opposition to new programs ... which would improve the quality of their lives." He went on to slam the party's environmental record, its neglect of the poor and even its stand on abortion. Brooke urged the GOP to return to advocating a small government approach without all the fire and brimstone.
Alicia Montgomery, Salon Magazine