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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (9179)	1/3/2001 9:35:48 AM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 10042

The so-what goes to his "legitimacy" or lack thereof. He may have the title "President" but 1/2 the public knows he's a fraud, and the other half knows it too, but are too happy to have taken power in whatever way they can -- even by a 5-4 Supreme Court appointment -- to think anything but "so what". You call it sour grapes for 1/2 the public to be agitated that the guy who won is out, while the guy who lost picks a bunch of ancient retreads and conservative ideologues to implement a decidedly conservative agenda that lost in the general election? I call it a natural and completely reasonable reaction. There will be hundreds of thousands of people in Washington DC to protest this inauguration. This will be the start of four years of civil unrest in America -- inevitable unrest if Dubya does what his first three weeks of "governing" show us he wants to do. And that's good, it will galvanize the left in ways that they could never have accomplished on their own. And it will be the first of six keys to his defeat in 2004 (possibly more, depending on how awful he turns out to be): 1. Civil Unrest 2. The GOP loss of Congressional seats in 2002 3. The lack of any major or profound accomplishment or major change in domestic policy -- he has no profound changes to propose so none can be implemented. 4. The lack of major foreign policy accomplishments -- unless he finds a weak middle eastern dictator he can defeat in an air war like his dad did. 5. Lack of political charisma -- starting with his intellectual and verbal deficiencies. 6. Long term economic growth over his term will be less than that during the preceding 4-year term. If short term economic factors (like a recession in 2004), foreign policy failures, personal or political scandals affecting Dubya (including scandals arising out of the theft in Florida), a charismatic challenger or a challenge from the right in his own party emerge, his defeat in 2004 will be that much more dramatic. So yes, we will live with him for 4 years -- we have no choice. But unite around this man who stole the white House and is now acting like he won the popular vote? You and your buddies in the extreme right may think that is what we should do (just like you right wingers guys would have united around Al Gore if the will of the people had been respected -- ha ha ha) but I have a different view. Those who care for democracy and respect for the voters should let their dissent be heard -- this man who was appointed by a political act of 5 conservative justices of the US Supreme Court should hear the voices of those whose votes were not respected for each day ofthe next four years.