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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (7700)	11/28/2000 5:07:03 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

It seems that shaggy-dog Gore's pettifogging tactics has backfired..... News Analysis: Governor Taps Into Public's Desire for End David S. Broder Washington Post Service Tuesday, November 28, 2000 WASHINGTON Governor George W. Bush of Texas has moved appreciably closer to winning the White House and has rattled the sensibilities of Washington's Democratic establishment by demanding he be treated as the president-elect. Mr. Bush, who had refrained from claiming victory after drawing criticism for starting transition talks barely 48 hours after the original and achingly close Florida tallies were announced, made an even bolder assertion of authority Sunday night just two hours after the official Florida canvass showed him ahead. At the end of a talk couched in conciliatory language and emphasizing areas of bipartisan agreement on the national agenda, he bluntly said it was time for Vice President Al Gore to stand down and for the Clinton administration to meet with his representatives to prepare for the change of governments. A new Washington Post/ABC News poll suggested 60 percent of the public agrees. [snip] iht.com President-elect GW Bush has already rallied 60% of the public around him! At this rate, by Friday, he may well end up with 80% of the poll.... The problem with the Bilderberg/pro-Israeli lobby is their hastily generalizing of their own baseness: they purport to cast themselves as the sole champions of the "one-man-one-vote" principle while everybody, even in the remotest Midwest Podunk, has figured out what the Democrat pettifoggers are really playing at: if they really cared about the public good they'd just step aside and let the winner move ahead with the transition cabinet. A statesman doesn't go to court to win an election --even if he's got the best, fair motives. A statesman doesn't plead for his cause before a rank of judges but rather call the people themselves to witness of his right --let the public be judge. After all, Gore wouldn't have a stronger legitimacy than Bush as President: it's not, after all, a matter of a landslide winner vs. a razor-thin ringer! There was no massive fraud and all Gore may hope for is to tilt the election scales in his favour by a tiny weeny amount of dubious votes. Now, the irony is that if the Dems persist in their smear tactics to cast GW Bush as an usurper they'll just dig their own political grave --if the current backlash in the polls is any measure.... Gus.