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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cutiger who wrote (3126)	11/30/2000 4:54:01 PM
From: MasonS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

"winner is actually the candidate with the second highest vote total" Good one!

To: cutiger who wrote (3126)	11/30/2000 5:11:10 PM
From: chomolungma	Respond to of 3887

You must be a Republican, Democrats don't concede. They just try and change the rules until they win. Why yes, I am. And if this ballot dispute were being held in Texas, I think it would have been resolved much more quietly due to the way the law spells out, with exactness, the method of a recount. You have to credit someone in Texas for that foresight. Unfortunately, the laws of Florida don't spell these things out. Therefore there has been much confusion as to what is a "vote." We are left to divining the intent of the voter without guidelines to help us out. That has left each county to make their own rules. If these counts had been done within the seven day period and submitted to the Secretary of State of Florida, we Republicans would be SOL if Gore had been the leader. We would be bemoaning our fate and cursing the unfair way the law was written. We would be shouting that the canvassing boards were politically motivated and gave the election to Gore. We would have been right on all these points. But that's not the way it happened. The handcounts were botched. They were given an extension (possibly illegal) by a partisan Supreme Court. They still botched it. So the Secretary certifies a count, as she is legally entitled to do, and now the Democrats are shouting about partisanship and politically motivated actions that gave the election to Bush. They are right, all these actions are politically motivated. But it is they that are shit-out-of-luck this time. You can't go back and change the laws after election day. That is clearly the law of the land. Was Gore damaged by the flaws in the law? Yes, maybe he was. Do I feel sorry for him? No, no more than the Democrats would be weeping for tears if the scenario I mentioned earlier had occurred. Remember, we live in a country where murderers have gone free because they weren't read their Miranda rights. Criminals have gotten off because the police did an improper search. That is the law and that's the way it stands. Let's change the election laws, to be sure, before this happens again, but we have to move on with Bush as our president. Polls show that 2/3 of Americans feel this way - just goes to show that Americans aren't so dumb after all.