To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (39506 ) 11/11/2000 2:16:40 PM From: Gary Burton Read Replies (1) | Respond to O/T--Brian, you may well have a point here--but if I were Bush, it wouldn't erase my inner anger at winning the way I did. The last thing I would want is to hear about the 19000 or the mistaken Buchanan votes in the swing state that determined the overall outcome. That is NOT the way I would have wanted to carry Fla or the nation. And no matter what I might say publicly, inwardly I would now feel the need even more stongly to somehow vanquish the inner demons so to speak. Reasons not to feel that way-like you have enumerated--somehow wouldn't really sway me, particularly if I had a famous father who went before me and didn't win the way I won. When Dad won, few questioned the legitimacy of the outcome. Most papers 'I' pick up tell the world that I'm not fit, that I was spoon fed by my family, that I've never really accomplished much on my own, that I'm a dim bulb...ect etc..Under such circumstances, it is bittersweet to win last Tues under the conditions that I won. I wanted so much to win outright, where I didn't hear about large blocks of 'disenfranchised' Gore voters. Above all, I wanted the opportunity to erase that inner tape that has been playing in my head since I was a boy-and Tuesday only reinforced it instead of erasing it....Gore in contrast gets to walk into the sunset telling himself-and believing it-that he won in the moral sense and therefore being at peace with himself.--------Rest assured, W is going to start out trying to be the most consensus building president for many years. He will bring D's into his cabinet and he will distance himself somewhat from the GOP in Congress-more than most of us currently think is likely.--And it will all be driven by the need to eradicate the way he won the election.
