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

To: amadeus who wrote (104926)	12/7/2000 11:06:05 PM
From: Dave Gore	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I know Amadeus, but I just can't believe that these people are ignorant of the laws or believe that laws should not be followed and even ignored. Partisanship is fine, but when carried to extremes it is downright ugly and lacks fairness and integrity.

To: amadeus who wrote (104926)	12/7/2000 11:06:36 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 769667

You know, amadeus...even his best friends are talking openly....Dick Morris has this to say....Geeze, if this was a Republican saying this, what would you say??? LOL! THE FIGHT'S NOT WORTH THE PRICE, AL Tuesday,December 5,2000 nypost.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AT last, American democracy has found an honest man who is willing to rise above party and deal only with the law. Judge N. Sanders Sauls, a Democrat who likely just destroyed his career, deserves a place in any future update of "Profiles in Courage." Judge Sauls, who could have chosen partisanship, opted for merit and justice instead. In doing so, he stood up for the rule of law and against the kind of banana-republic "justice" that puts party ahead of country. Now the question is: Will Al Gore follow suit and concede this election? The most recent poll by Fox News/Opinion Dynamics shows that the vice president - even before yesterday's double-barreled judicial reversals - has run out of public sympathy and patience. As he refuses to throw in the towel, Al Gore is hemorrhaging his hard-won national popularity. With each legal maneuver and each refusal to be daunted by yesterday's setbacks, his support in America slips further. The Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll shows Gore's dropping popularity - from 54 percent favorable, 39 percent unfavorable on Nov. 3 to 46 percent favorable, 48 percent unfavorable on Dec. 1. Meanwhile, George W. Bush moved from a favorable/unfavorable ratio of 56 to 36 to 60 to 34. As Gore paraded from talk shows to press conferences to media interviews, Bush has remained relatively quiescent. The result: Gore has lost 17 percentage points in popularity, while Bush has gained 6 points. If the election were held today, the poll says that Bush would defeat Gore by 49 percent to 36 percent. (And Fox News' pre-election survey was revoltingly accurate in its prediction of a dead-even Bush/Gore tie, so its conclusions now are worth taking seriously.) The survey shows that 11 percent of the voters who backed Gore on Election Day wouldn't support him now, while Bush still wins 97 percent of his voters. By 56 percent to 25 percent, voters believe Bush, not Gore, won the election; they want the vice president to concede by 56 to 39. And here's proof that Gore isn't helping his case: By 50 to 29, voters believe that Bush has acted more presidential since the election than Gore has. Even Joe Lieberman has taken a hit as his favorability has dropped from 53 percent to 47 percent in the last month, while Dick Cheney's has risen from 55 percent to 64 percent. There are defining moments in politics when the stubbornness of one or the other political parties so inflames the electorate that it takes years to recover. We saw the Clinton administration destroy itself over Hillary's health-care plan and witnessed the GOP Congress self-immolate over the Gingrich agenda and then again during impeachment. Now it is the Democratic Party which is digging itself a deep, deep hole from which it may not soon recover. Were there a serious chance that Al Gore could become president, this defiance would make sense. It would be worth the political cost to capture the White House on virtually any terms. But as court decisions pile up against him (and the U.S. Supreme Court reverses the only one he has won to date), the fight he is waging is not worth the cost. In fact, as he forces us to focus on each day's maneuver and each moment's trial, the fundamental fact that Gore won the nationwide popular vote is lost to public view. The moral high ground that this victory should gain him is eroded by the sense that he is behaving badly in the election's aftermath. <b?When President and Sen.-elect Clinton call for a post-inaugural recount under the Freedom of Information laws to undermine Bush's legitimacy, the party suffers as surely as the GOP bled during its extremism in attacking Clinton. As the Gore camp's allies seek to suppress votes (rather than to count them) by litigating to throw out absentee ballots on technicalities, the public grows more alienated. It's time for Gore to fold and throw in his hand. Not only is he squandering the claim on our sympathies, but he is making himself radioactive, losing his otherwise good shot at the 2004 nomination. As he drags the nation through uncertainty even after a slap by the U.S. Supreme Court, he is bringing his party down with him. There is a time to stand and fight. And there is a time to go home.