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

To: lawdog who wrote (89519)	11/27/2000 2:16:52 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Article...Gore must concede for the good of all... A Boston Herald editorial Monday, November 27, 2000 bostonherald.com For the fourth time this month George W. Bush has won the right to claim Florida's 25 electoral votes. If there were a shred of honesty and decency left in Vice President Al Gore he would do what he began to do on election night. He would concede this election to the man who won it then and who continues to hold the lead no matter how many times the rules of the electoral game are changed to favor the Democratic pretender to the Oval Office. Bush won Florida and the presidency on election night. He won the state again after the first recount of ballots. He won it - and would have been certified the winner after overseas ballots were counted - had not Florida's Supreme Court decided to rewrite the state's election laws and set their own arbitrary deadline. And let's not forget that Bush won the overwhelming number of overseas ballots despite efforts by Democratic lawyers to disqualify ballots of American men and women serving in the military. Again last night George Bush won the Florida vote count - this time by 537 votes, pending possible revisions from Palm Beach County - for what certainly should be the final time. He won it even though Broward County jumped through legal hoops in its efforts to count so-called dimpled ballots. He won it even though yet another judge ordered Palm Beach County to abandon the policy it has applied for the past 10 years to give the benefit of the doubt to dimpled ballots. Four Bush victories should convince Gore that it's over, that behaving like a grown-up sometimes means acknowledging defeat and moving on. It's time the Democratic Party's elders helped the vice president preserve what little dignity he has left with a gracious concession. As state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Crawford, acting as a member of Florida's statewide Board of Canvassers, said last night in certifying the election, ``This has been a tough election. It has not always been pretty. Well, it's over. We have a winner, and it's time to move on. ``One thing the lawyers can't do for us and one thing the courts can't do for us is bring us together.'' Only the candidates - winner and loser - working together can do that. It's time that process begins. For Education And Discussion Only. Not For Commercial Use.