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

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (117072)	12/17/2000 7:52:28 PM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 769669

Sour grapes? The second place finisher steals the election and you call it sour grapes? No, just an indelible memory that will never go away. As they say, payback is hell. As for trial lawyers, they serve a purpose but tort reform is not an issue that I feel that strongly about. Most of my clients are very conservative republican businessmen, I am not a trial lawyer, and I actually have a moderate view on many issues. I consider myself liberal only on the social agenda -- reproductive freedom, environmental protection, separation of church and state, free speech, etc. And though I do think some social safety net is important, I also think that government cannot solve all problems, and that it is not appropriate to use government solely as a tool to redistribute wealth. The reason I could not bring myself to support Dubya is two fold -- first, I think he is anti-intellectual, by which I mean seriously lacking in intellectual curiosity -- he doesn't read books, and he is prone to making statements that suggest contempt for those who do. Second, I think he is dishonest -- that he ran as something he wasn't in order to win, a sense that was only reconfirmed by the unprincipled manner in which he "won Florida -- by suppressing votes, by igniting (or allowing his proxies to ignite) the most caustic imaginable partisan rhetoric in support of an immoral position, by using agents of his campaign to abuse their official capacities to benefit his position in a baldly partisan fashion, and by the many improper acts committed prior to the election by him, his brother, and his brother's political apparatus -- cheating (by violating the law in the issuance of absentee ballots while holding the the other party to a different standard), stealing (by falsely having the names of thousands of black voters illegally removed from the voter roles -- carried out by a GOP vendor hired by Jeb Bush which has admitted widespread errors in its actions, and that it disenfranchised thousands of voters), and using immoral and corrupt tactics after the election to suppress legally cast votes (litigation to prevent a simple recount like thousands conducted in thousands of jurisdictions before November 2000 and then tactics used to corrupt the recount and undermine its fairness). When the full story of how the GOP stole Florida is fully know, it will involve blatant acts of voter fraud and many more improper acts that are less blatant, but no less immoral and corrupt. The level of anger that you see now will seem mild by comparison when the truth comes out. and make no mistake, the news is going to come out - the press is already putting the pieces together. And when it happens, Dubya will have to answer for his conduct, and that of those who acted in his name and on his behalf. And it won't be pretty.