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To: Steve Lee who wrote (38544)	12/4/2000 2:07:56 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

I disagree with so much of what you just said that I don't know where to begin. But since it's pretty much off-topic, anyway, I think I'll just leave it at that. I disagree. Charles Tutt (TM)

To: Steve Lee who wrote (38544)	12/4/2000 3:09:49 PM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Steve, nicely stated. The guys around here "HATE" lawyers with a passion. Unless they're THEIR lawers. <G>

To: Steve Lee who wrote (38544)	12/4/2000 3:43:32 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Now some of those same people are cheering for the guy who says he will fight for the presidency whatever the courts say When I hear this frequently-made remark, it "begs the question<g>": What on earth makes you think that things would be one iota different if the situations were reversed? Nothing gives me that idea. The media blaboisie takes it as a given that Bush's legal dept. was all ready to challenge the legitimacy of the electoral college if Dubya won the popular vote and lost the election, as was expected in the early going. They would have been screaming "We won the popular vote! We won the popular vote! The people want us!" Rush Limbaugh would have become an outraged pure-democrat (small "d"). Bush would have had just as many lawsuits in the courts as Gore does now. Now, however, Republican editorial cartoonists (viz. Ramirez in the L.A. Times and others) are drawing nasty little pictures showing just how badly the noble but empty states of the mid-U.S. would be shortchanged if the election process were rigorously democratic. The electoral college is the very heart of our Republic. God Save the Electoral College (which I agree with--unconditionally). I can't figure out how anybody can remain partisan after this fiasco. What has been incontrovertibly demonstrated by all this crap is NOT the "My guy good, your guy bad" that everybody is clamped onto like gila monsters (and which twister even attributes to me!<g>). It is that we are not given a choice of statesmen. We are given a choice of reptiles. Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. --QS