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

To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (105185)	12/8/2000 2:12:34 AM
From: lawdog	Respond to of 769667

I wish the Florida legislature would just get on with it. We all know they're going to do it, and that there will be a severe backlash. I'm looking forward to that a lot more than a Gore Presidency.

To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (105185)	12/8/2000 9:45:29 AM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: "You are then admitting that you are conceding the election to Bush and that your strategy is to simply stall the election just long enough with your barrage of frivolous lawsuits to FORCE the Republican majority Florida Legislature to select its own slate of electors? This will give you propaganda for the next battle in two years for the Senate election." Reply: God, you're smart. First of all, the election should never be conceded. Not by Gore, nor by any Democrat. To concede bestows a legitimacy on the winner, and in this election, Bush has no legitimacy by virtue of the fact that he stymied a manual recount of every county in Florida. Such a recount would have ended all doubts about who got the most votes in the Sunshine State. None of the lawsuits Gore has filed has been frivolous. If Bush had been 900 votes down in Florida, would he have done nothing? Don't be so naive. Re: forcing the Florida General Assembly to select its own electors: This will not only give the Democrats propaganda fodder for the next battle in two years in the House and Senate, it will stick with the Republican Party for the next 20 years: The Grand Party of Usurping. Sounds like pretty good politics to me.