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

To: Techplayer who wrote (79196)	11/17/2000 9:42:25 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Gore was not offering Bush dignity. He was planting a trap. The trap was already there. Bush never won the Florida vote, he only wanted to claim victory and get Gore to concede before the public noticed. Once that didn't happen Bush should have bowed out. I can't blame him for not bowing out in the first day or two because nobody was really sure what had happened with the polls and chad and Pat Buchannan. It was pretty clear by the time Gore made his statesman's address. Bush could have looked Nixonian with a "it's for the good of the people that I put an end to this even though I am ahead" or something that would have made him a legend in the minds of conservatives. Instead, finding himself in a hole he decided to dig. TP