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

To: AmericanVoter who wrote (9360)	1/16/2001 8:34:19 AM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10042

You have it all wrong. No matter how close he came to losing, the fact is that Gore beat Bush - he got more votes nationally, he got more votes in Florida, and the only way Bush won was to cut off the count judicially with help from 6 conservative judges -- Judge Sauls and 5 justices of the USSC. I know it's hard to feel good about winning an election when your guy actually loses -- especially when your guy is a mental midget who promises to be a constant source of embarassment to this nation for the next four years. I am almost over having the election stolen by the GOP (and their scorched earth legal tactics which succeeded in disenfranchising thousands of voters in Florida. Now it's time for you guys to get over the fact that your boy will be sitting in the White House despite the fact that he lost big. The left now has 52% of the popular vote in this country in a National election (Nader was no Perot - less than 10% of Nader's supporters would have voted for Bush, whereas about 1/2 of Perot's supporters indicated that they would have supported Clinton had Perot not been in the race). 52% of the voting public in November 2000 voted for a candidate who was left of center. The conservative mandate that Bush is claiming does not exist, and his attempt to conjure it up are only going to piss off the majority that voted against him. I'm glad he's doing it, because it will give us democratic control over both hoses in 2 years, but it sickens me that GOP is trying to claim, with a straight face no less, that Bush won this election when he got less votes than Gore nationally and electorally (but for the 5-4 USSC decision), and far less than 50% of the total vote. Believe me, you have the easier part of the "get over it" equation. The first step, BTW, is to get past denial -- i.e., stop pretending that Bush really won. He lost, by a much wider margin than anybody on the GOP side would have believed going into election day.