The problem Dems have with "the fact that they lost" is that they didn't lose.
My guess is that if Bush won the popular vote by 500,000 plus, but had lost the electoral college because, in Wisconsin, he lost by 900 votes after a machine tally, had huge undervote totals in 3 of the strongest GOP counties, was in the middle of a manual recount that was showing him gaining all of the votes he would have needed to win and then some, but was blocked by a Secretary of State who was Gore's campaign co-chair in Wisconsin, by a liberal judge in Madison, and then by 5-4 vote of a liberal Supreme Court, who shot his efforts to count the uncounted votes in the head by staying the recount, and then saying it was flawed and that there was no time to complete it fairly, the GOP would be going postal over it, literally -- I mean going COMPLETELY NUTS about how the Dems stole it, etc. Lord knows the GOP was whining like a dog that had just sat on cactus at the possibility of a hand recount of any kind in Florida (though strangely it wasn't such a problem in New Mexico, where it would have helped Dubya, or in Texas, where it helped at least two local GOP candidates this year).
Be real -- if the GOP were on the receiving end of what Dubya succeeded in doing to Gore in Florida, we would never EVER hear the end of it. So bitter?? You bet your rear end we're bitter . . . and for good reason. And we are NEVER going to forget. |
