Rande,
I agree very much with what you said, it was obviously from the perspective of someone with no dog in this fight.
But from someone who does have a dog in this fight, the bottom line is, it is Al Gore and his armies of trial lawyers that are changing the rules after the election. I refuse to believe that if Bush had lost the first and second counts he would have relied on lawsuits and any other possible means to win. Maybe I'm biased, but you will never convince me of that. For the record I supported McCain, and I am much more anti-Gore than pro-Bush. I do not want someone of Al Gore's character to be my President, is it too much to ask to have man with some actual values in that office?
The thing that bothers me the most is that Gore will get to keep hundreds of votes he picked up in Broward county that were granted to him by partisans in a 2-1 vote using standards that had never before been used in an election. (basically any mark near a gore hole was considered a vote.)Now, when they count Bush leaning counties, a tougher standard will be used. In effect, all voters were not treated equally.
The Supreme Court has to step up, otherwise, a partisan body will have changed the rules after an election in order to allow their candidate to win.
Uh oh, Barbara Boxer on my TV, gotta find the remote.... |
