This is from Bill Buckler's "The Privateer" dated today:
"The recent events in Florida make a strange spectacle. Late on November 7, Mr Gore called Mr Bush to concede and then
got into his car. Two blocks away from the place where he planned to make his concession speech, he took a call in his car,
did a U-turn, and then called Mr Bush back to retract his earlier concession. That was followed by the even more amazing
spectacle of each and every political and legal manoeuver in the book being tried to re-gain a victory in a lost election.
Somebody got to Mr Gore. Somebody with enough political heft to cause the U-turn and the retraction and also to initiate all
the manoeuvres currently taking place. Politically, these are acts of desperation.
This poses the obvious question: Why the desperation? If this had been a "normal" U.S. election, one side would have won,
the other lost, and political life would have gone on as before. Both sides of the U.S. political Establishment would have gone
about their business as before. To lose a particular election would not be politically fatal to the losing side. But the
developments after THIS election make it clear that a loss IS seen as being potentially politically fatal - BY THE
DEMOCRATS.
A Fatal Fear Of - What?:
That poses another question: What do they have to fear? It cannot be Mr Bush and the Republicans.
Neither Mr Bush nor the Republicans have demonstrated any intent to politically destroy the Democrats and Mr Gore. If the
Gore/Democrats, and that portion of the political Establishment behind them don't fear the Republicans, they must fear
themselves. More precisely, they must fear the possibility that something they have done will come to light, something which
could, potentially, destroy them politically. If (repeat - IF) this is the case, then it is obvious that the best means to ensure that
whatever it is that they have done never comes to light - is to WIN this election - by any and all means."
I personally feel that he is stretching things just a bit but then again maybe he is right on. It has been demonstrated that it would take the legislative and the executive branch to do a proper look at things.
Clark |
