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To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (118064)	12/4/2000 3:07:26 PM
From: Lane Hall-Witt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 120523

JJ: It's too early to tell how history will treat anyone in this episode -- both because we don't know enough about what is happening right now and because we don't know what the longer-term effects of this process will be on our systems of politics, governance, and law. Today, Gore might look like a sore loser who is prolonging our national nightmare through gratuitous appeals to the courts and the public. In the future, Gore might look like the defender of the principle of one voter, one vote against a direct assault by the Bush machine. Today, Bush might look like he's trying to run out the clock on a legally sanctioned democratic process. In the future, Bush might look the defender of the rules of the electoral game against frivolous manipulations by the Gore machine. I believe both Gore and Bush can help themselves, in the eyes of posterity, by upholding the fundamental principles that underlie our democratic way of life: one voter, one vote; the rules of fair play; the subtly nuanced relation between state and federal powers; checks and balances among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. To the extent that either man, or their surrogates, undermine these principles, then I think history will treat them as villains. (And they'll deserve this treatment!)