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

To: Neocon who wrote (72572)	11/13/2000 12:13:27 PM
From: phbolton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The New York Post's Rod Dreher: "It sounds like a plot from a Carl Hiaasen novel: The fate of the world's only superpower depends on 3,000 elderly South Florida nitwits and their lawyers. These poor lunkheads might have screwed up their ballots, and failed to exercise their right to ask for a new one. That's a shame. But that's all it is. "Despite what some in this overlawyered culture seem to believe, the courts have no obligation to protect people from their own carelessness. The attitude that one sues to cover for one's incompetence is destroying the American character. And it may soon destroy America's faith in its political system. ...The Bushies figure, no doubt correctly, that a hand examination of the 10,000 ballots which showed no presidential selection by machine count will turn up a large number of Gore votes, legitimately or by fraud ñ probably enough to tip the election. Yet a hand recount is the Gore campaign's right under Florida law. It's hard to feel good about a potential Bush win based on a federal judge's refusal to allow those ballots to be hand-examined, for fear of discovering what to the GOP would be unpleasant truth."