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

To: zonkie who wrote (111470)	12/12/2000 12:10:09 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

WHY WOULDN'T NIXON'S 1960 LOSS QUALIFY?????? HUH???

To: zonkie who wrote (111470)	12/12/2000 10:21:24 AM
From: Blaine K	Respond to of 769667

<<Name me a republican that could have contested the results in any one close state that would have given him a victory. I don't know of any. I don't think Nixon or Ford qualify.>> I know Ford lost Ohio to Carter by a VERY narrow margin, but cannot attest whether that would have turned the college. I also know that Nixon lost Illinois and Texas to Kennedy, and that would have turned the electoral college. In both, but especially in 1960 there was obvious fraud involved, yet Nixon and Ford retrained their impulse to power to avoid the mess we're in now. I can't be sure Bush would measure up to resisting temptation, but I believe he would. I tire of all of the comments of "moral equivalency" between the parties, similar to the crap used to justify leaving Clinton alone for perjury, and to place the U.S. and U.S.S.R. on the same moral footing [for the last, look to CNN's "Cold War" magnum opus]. Some people behave better than others. Gore has behaved badly, and I don't think it's self-evident that Bush would have done the same.