Graduates and allies of BoJo hold political offices ranging from city council posts all the way to Congress and the White House. I lack the time and interest to catalog all the BoJos of politics. This page highlights of some of the more colorful characters.

• John Ashcroft - former U.S. Attorney General; former Governor, U.S. Senator, and state Attorney General. Accepted honorary doctorate from BoJo in May, 1999, at which time he delivered the now-infamous "No King but Jesus" speech. In 1998, Ashcroft gave an interview to Southern Partisan, a group advocating "a gumbo of racist apologias."  He praised the magazine for "setting the record straight."
   

• David Beasley - Former Republican Governor of South Carolina; accompanied Bush to BoJo in 2000.
   

• George W. Bush - Twice-defeated Republican candidate for President.  Made Bob Jones University a household name by campaigning there in March, 2000.
   

2000 Campaign: Bush had a little extra help  from the BoJos in addition to his speaking engagement. Time magazine reports that, during the South Carolina primary, BoJo professor Dr. Richard Hand "sent out an email falsely alleging that McCain had sired two children out of wedlock," and a Cox News Service story tells of email from Hand that "denounced McCain as bent on 'partying, playing, drinking and womanizing.''' According to McCain, these emails numbered in the thousands.

2004 Campaign: After Bush was electronically shoe-horned into office a second time, Bob III sent him an over-the-top congratulatory letter containing such bon mots as... "God has graciously granted America -- though she doesn't deserve it -- a reprieve from the agenda of paganism."   "You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ."   "...exercise forceful leadership with the Congress in passing legislation that is defined by biblical norm...." [I must have missed the meeting where all the other pagans voted to adopt a uniform "agenda of paganism."]

• Jim DeMint - U.S. Senator; former Congressman (Republican, Greenville, South Carolina, 4th Dist.); one of his advisors is or was BoJo Political Science professor, Tim Keesee. Famously said of black Republican  (former) Congressman, J. C. Watts: "[He] has changed the whole complexion of the Republican Party." Mighty white of him to mention it.
   

• Lindsay Graham - U.S. Senator; former Congressman (Republican, Seneca, South Carolina, 3rd Dist.); honorary degree from BoJo; holds Strom Thurmond's old Senate seat; endorsed by Bob III.
   

•   Ernest "Fritz" Hollings - Retired South Carolina Senator defied the BoJos; called the school "a national embarrassment" and its administrators "jackasses".
   

• Asa Hutchinson - Former U.S. Congressman (Republican, Arkansas 3rd Dist.); former head of the DEA and Under Secretary of Homeland Security; unsuccessful candidate for governor of Arkansas, 2006;  BoJo alumnus; served as "House Manager" for the Clinton impeachment hearings.
   

• Tim Hutchinson - One-term Republican U.S. Senator from Arkansas; BoJo alumnus; ordained minister; divorced his wife of 29 years while a Senator and married an aide with whom he was having an affair.
   

• Bob Inglis - U.S. Congressman (Republican, Greenville, South Carolina, 4th Dist.). Spoke at Bob Jr.'s funeral (as did then-Governor David Beasley), and at other BoJo-related events, such as this "Traditional Family Values" rally, where he expressed his outrage that gays "are marching in our streets." [Damn right. Let 'em get their own streets.] Unsuccessful Senate candidate in 1998.
   

• Dan Quayle - Former Vice President and presidential candidate; appeared with George W. Bush during this campaign speech at BoJo in 2000. Bonus: Dan Quayle Quotes
   

• Mitt Romney - Massachusetts governor, 2008 GOP presidential contender, and a Mormon (which the BoJos consider "a cult which calls itself Christian). Hired BoJo alumnus Jared Young as his campaign mouthpiece, presumably to hedge his bets with the rapture-ready Republican red-state retards.
   

• Bob Taylor - Greenville County Councilman (Republican); Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at BoJo. Taylor wasn't above spreading innuendoes about McCain during the SC primary:

The New Republic: "When I visited Greenville's Bob Jones University...I encountered the campaign firsthand. As I sat in the administration office under the mounted head of a deer, Bob Taylor, the school's dean, who had helped coordinate Bush's recent visit to the school and had Bush bumper stickers stacked on his desk, told me he was worried about McCain's second wife's family values, among other things. What do you mean? I asked. He leaned forward, his voice dropping several notches. 'She owns,' he confided, 'one of the biggest beer distributors' in the country, and he feared her family might have 'friendships among organized crime.' When I asked him for evidence, he leaned back in his chair and said, 'I don't have any firsthand knowledge, but that's just the kind of thing that's out there.'"

• Jerry Thacker - Former BoJo employee nominated by George W. Bush to serve on the the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS. Later was forced to withdraw his nomination when it came out that he had referred to AIDS as the "gay plague"  and to homosexuality as a "deathstyle."  He also asserted that "Christ can rescue the homosexual."  White House spokesman (at that time) Ari Fleischer disavowed Thacker's comments on behalf of the president. The Commission chairwoman who recommended Thacker also lost her job over the incident. Thacker got AIDS from his wife, who contracted the virus through a blood transfusion. He founded the Scepter Institute.
   

• Tony Trout - Greenville City Councilman; he reports:

"A lot of people who followed my campaign...know that a handful of Bob Jones administrators and staff people worked hard to keep me from being elected, often times playing hardball, hitting below the knees, attacking my family and even playing a key role in my signs disappearing overnight. And when I beat my opponent a second time, that wasn’t good enough so they mounted a write-in campaign for him, leading to his third defeat in a single election cycle. While I have not forgotten the depths some of these people sank to, that is largely their problem that they carry with them. I forgave them long ago — but I’m not so foolish as to turn my back on them either."

This Greenville, S.C. native grew up in the shadow of  Bob Jones University	Neo-Confederates in nearby Spartanburg, S.C.
BoJo alumnus John Weaver: Why the South Must Rise Again Think the BoJos have mellowed? This neo-Confederate propaganda is still broadcast on BoJo's SermonAudio.comom

Greenville Antiwar Society

More Information on the Fundamentalists' Political Agenda 

Christian Reconstructionism - To understand the fundamentalist mentality and agenda, read this.

• Americans United for Separation of Church and State

• People for the American Way

• Interfaith Alliance

• The American Religious Right

• Christian Reconstructionism, Dominion Theology & Theonomy

• School Prayer Persecution

• A Christian Looks at the Religious Right

• Protect My Children from the Ten Commandments

• Religious Freedom Coalition of the Southeast

• Freedom from Religion Foundation