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

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (104468)	12/7/2000 3:40:50 PM
From: Frank Griffin	Respond to of 769667

America's Low Budget Movie By Tom Bevan He won't quit. He won't stop. He may NEVER go away. After a full month of legal battles in which Al Gore has been almost categorically rejected by the courts and the American public, he still will not accept the fact that he lost this very close election. Democrats, complicit in propping up "Fightin' Al" over the last thirty days, keep telling us what a wonderful civics lesson this has been watching the wheels of democracy turn. In truth, it has been more like a low budget horror film where the bad guy just won't die. Two days ago, Judge Sanders Sauls effectively put a stake through the heart of Mr. Gore by ruling against his contest of the election on every single count. But that didn't stop the Vice President from continuing to stagger blindly forward, yesterday holding a delusional press conference outside the White House where he asserted that he still had a 50-50 chance of winning the Presidency. Gore even went so far as to encourage the disqualification of ballots in Seminole and Martin Counties while refusing to accept the Florida Supreme Court's upcoming decision as the final word. The Vice President should have conceded while he still had a technical, legal chance to win in an attempt to salvage a shred of dignity for himself. However it is clear that Gore, like his mentor President Clinton, is incapable of putting the country's interests ahead of his own. And because of his selfishness - or more accurately his self righteousness - the Vice President has insured a difficult end to this horror movie. By waiting until his final appeal has been exhausted, his last legal option extinguished, Gore's concession will carry no grace or healing power at all. Instead, the country will know, even as he stands before us and says the right words, that he fought with every fiber and every breath against the final outcome. We will know that the Vice President has not conceded, but has been defeated - and there is a world of difference between the two. Democrats will say George Bush stole the election. African-American leaders like Jesse Jackson and Kweisi Mfume will further divide our nation by promoting the falsehood that there was a concerted effort by Republicans to stop blacks from voting in Florida. As instructed (some would say begged) by the Democrats, some liberal scholar will go to Florida next year and produce a bogus study declaring Gore the true winner in Florida, further undermining the legitimacy of the Bush Presidency. Though we haven't seen this movie before, we certainly know how it will end. It's a bad movie, and one that we can't get up and walk out of. So until it's truly over, all we can do is sit and watch