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

To: Neocon who wrote (111592)	12/12/2000 1:58:28 AM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Nobody would hold Dubya accountable for thinking anything through, period. No argument there. But it is his signature on the piece of paper. Good enough for Texas . . . . but not the rest of us. As for inherent rights to a manual recount, the problem is that, in this case, Gore requested it legally, and the counties involved voted to conduct them in accordance with the applicable statutory standards. Harris tried desperately to narrow those standards, and abort the recounts before they started -- "erroneously" to quote the FSC. And here I thought you guys were so concerned about changing the rules after the fact -- who would have imagined that it would be SO difficult to ask for and receive a manual recount in Florida in an election decided by less than 1/100 of 1%. My reference to prior restraint was by analogy only -- Bush does not want any reading to take place, with or without standards. He does not want ANY of these votes to count, and he does not want the public to ever know what these ballots say. His legal strategy from Day #2 has been to suppress this at all costs. It diminishes your argument and your credibility to suggest that is not the case.