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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (5485)	2/28/2001 12:34:20 AM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Selectric II (Was there a Selectric I?) ... good to hear from you again. I've been hanging out over here on JLA's RWET for the past few weeks. My time may be limited, though, if James McGowan, the slide rule guy from California, is successful in getting me banned from this thread. (See post 129064 on the GWB thread.) No "freedom of speech" for some of these right-wing boys, thank you. Since you specifically asked me a question, I'll answer it. You ask what is my reaction to the Florida news stories showing that Bush won Florida after all. Actually, I think the Democrats have accepted Gore's loss better than the Republicans have accepted Bush's win. Think on that for a moment. When the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to make GWB the President-Select, I accepted that fact, as did 99 percent of the Democrats. There were no riots in the streets. There was no gang hooliganism like we saw in Miami from the Izod political hacks that DeLay and Armey sent to Florida to disrupt the Dade counting. Many Republicans, however, continuously sought validation -- after the fact -- over the fact -- that Bush lost the popular vote and may, in fact, have lost Florida. So, for their sake, I'm happy that Bush has been crowned the Florida winner in the media recount. But the bottom line remains this: If the U.S. Supreme Court had stayed out of the Florida fray, there would have been a recount in parts of the state and Bush still would have won. Wouldn't that have been preferable than to have a tarnished U.S. Supreme Court? I think so. But at least now Sandy O'Connor and Bill Rehnquist can retire to Arizona, so I guess that's good, and Bush can appoint Orrin Hatch as the next chief justice of the United States.