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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (65408)	11/9/2000 9:08:20 AM
From: microhoogle!	Respond to of 769670

I have no idea about that. I will look into that. I just heard about it this morning.

To: Ish who wrote (65408)	11/9/2000 9:30:53 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

A must read. If you can't read ballot, you shouldn't be voting by Howie Carr Thursday, November 9, 2000 Two words for all those Florida Democrats: Shut the bleep up! Can you imagine these old-timers down there in God's waiting room, claiming they didn't know what to do with a punch ballot? If it was a bingo card, do you think they'd have had any problems? If they were playing a lottery punch card, do you think they'd have ever missed spotting a one-dollar payoff? Now, though, they've been robbed. Just because every precinct in America has signs saying Read Directions Carefully, why does this mean they have to Read Directions Carefully? How many of those old biddies do you suppose have ever mistaken the gas pedal for the brake? Now, though, they want a new election, or, failing that, how about a gift certificate to the Early Bird Special at Red Lobster? And their spokesman - Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Boca Raton). Where is his credibility? During Clinton's impeachment hearings, he was the Marty Meehan of Florida's Gold Coast. And by the way, don't tell me that there's no way Pat Buchanan could get 3,000-plus votes in Palm Beach. I've lived there. Ever hear of any ``restricted'' clubs over on the island? Believe me, there's plenty of people there who understood Pat's every note. But now the old ladies say they were confused. They voted for the wrong guy. They knew they made a mistake but somehow they didn't mention it to anybody until they got outside and met that nice young Wexler boy . . . Aren't these the same people who get cold calls from boiler rooms, and they immediately turn over their credit card and Social Security numbers to some fly-by-night grifter? If they're this bad off, they ought not be voting, or driving. Not that Boca Raton is the only place where panic now grips the Beautiful People. Imagine Alec Baldwin's house Tuesday night . . . pack the car . . . unpack the car . . . pack the car . . . unpack the car. I talked to Marty Meehan about this matter yesterday. He recommended a ``bipartisan'' approach, which means you're supposed to let Gore steal the election, and if you try to stop them, you're engaging in the politics of personal destruction. That's a hate crime. Naturally, I assumed Marty would be shocked, shocked at the fact that a Gore soft-money ATM from Park Avenue named Connie Millstein had been giving away free smokes to bums in Milwaukee Sunday night. ``That wasn't authorized,'' he said. Of course not. When you give $400 large plus to the Dems, you don't need no stinkin' authorization. Meanwhile, the vultures float into Florida. Jesse Jackson says the returns don't pass the ``sniff test.'' Please, Jesse. Your deep sympathy for the residents of Boca Raton is touching, especially considering that so many of them used to live in the city you once called Hymietown. And the challenge being announced in the pre-dawn hours by Gore campaign manager Bill Daley, the son of the late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, he of the massive 1960 voter fraud on behalf of JFK in the Mob wards on the West Side - was ``surreal,'' as The Wall Street Journal said. Didn't Chicago always use ``butterfly'' ballots very similar to the ones that stumped the AARP life members in Palm Beach County? Isn't the supervisor of voting down there an elected Democratic official? How many votes did Bush lose when the networks called the state for Gore with the polls still open for more than an hour in the Republican Panhandle? And please, no more complaints from anyone who calls it the ``Electrical College.'' If you don't know how many votes Vermont has, just off the top of your head, you shouldn't be voting anyway. I got an e-mail yesterday from a high school kid in Wisconsin. ``We used these ballots last week in a mock election at my high school,'' he wrote. ``And not one kid (15-to-18-year-olds) had a single problem.'' It would have all been very different, kid, if only your high school had been in Bob Wexler's congressional district. bostonherald.com