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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (86792)	12/13/2000 3:08:32 PM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 132070

we'll never know now ...

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (86792)	12/13/2000 4:57:10 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Respond to of 132070

Nadine, >>Had they set a standard, they would have been overturned for writing law from the bench and taking over the prereogatives of the legislature, imho. I think they were really between a rock and hard place on this one.<< I absolutely agree with you on this one, but I have no problem with it. The whole reason for my satisfaction with the decision is that I think neither the court or the legislature should be able to change the rules in the middle of the game - even if the result is unfair. You should make things fair for the next election. I think it is ironic that if Florida had the same rules as Texas we would have had a manual count with standards already defined and in all probability Gore would have won. Maybe this means Bush is a lot smarter than people give him credit for. He signed a bill that would have prevented this kind of nonsense from happening in his own state. Pretty smart - NOT :-) Wayne