What Josh doesn't realize is that they were all failing that test for years. The CCC to which Lott and Ashcroft have links isn't tops on the ADL's list either, given their association with Christian Identity and other anti-semitists. Conservatives all ran for cover when Paul Weyrich made his "Jews Killed Jesus" comment, and lined up to join the metaphorical firing squad against Evan Gahr. Similarly, when John Ashcroft spoke at Bob Jones University and claimed that "we have no King but Jesus," he didn't stop there
“My mind thinking about that [phrase, “no king but Jesus”] once raced back a couple of thousand years when [Roman governor Pontius] Pilate stepped before the people of Jerusalem and said, ‘Whom would ye that I release unto you? Barabbas? Or Jesus, which is called the Christ?’ And when they said, ‘Barabbas,’ he [Pilate] said, ‘But what about Jesus? King of the Jews?’ And the outcry was, ‘We have no king but Caesar’.”
In the Bob Jones speech, Ashcroft then contrasted this supposed outcry of the Jews of Jerusalem with the supposed principle behind the American Revolution. Ashcroft said:
“There’s a difference between a culture that has no king but Caesar, no standard but the civil authority, and a culture that has no king but Jesus, no standard but the eternal authority. When you have no king but Caesar, you release Barabbas – criminality, destruction, thievery, the lowest and the least. When you have no king but Jesus, you release the eternal, you release the highest and the best.”
The anti-semitism in Bush's campaign was also widely ignored. Taped calls were made attacking Warren Rudman in ways he considered to be anti-Semitic. Marvin Olasky, a Bush regular, referred to Jewish journalists as followers of the "religion of Zeus" with "holes in their souls." Bush himself is reported to have quipped that upon arriving in Israel he would tell all the Jews they were going to hell. And, of course we cannot forget Reagan's laying of the wreath at a memorial for Nazi Soldiers at Bitburg.