To: Srexley who wrote (160172 ) 7/12/2001 1:54:18 AM From: CYBERKEN Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667 Having already witnessed the most massive vote-creation fraud in the history of any free and democratic nation, the Republicans then watched as Gore marched every lawyer he could get ahold of into Florida like an invading army. These highly specialized Clinton/Gore soldiers then began a systematic bastardization of the counting process in Florida, in a desperate attempt to complete the heist that the vote manufacturers had failed at by just a handful of ballots. The Republicans, given their history (1960, 1976), were holding concession as a contingency so as not to put the public through the realization that voting is the mess that insiders have always known it to be. Their problem this time, though, is that that lead, while it tended to shrink, simply wouldn't go away. That's when the line was drawn. They called in their time-honored fire fighter, James Baker, for one more miracle. Starting from many points behind, and facing a younger team with no idealistic or moral scruples whatsoever made the old warrior fight just that much harder. In the end, he chased the 21st century version of the Mongol hoards back to the fortress of their narrow and partisan-minded state supreme court, which rendered a decision so preposterously defective their own chief justice went public to disavow his association with it. The USSC was a formality. The Justices put a stop to the insane nonsense of the resumed manipulation and mutilation of the worn cardboard ballots, then spiked the Democrats' crime once and for all. The main shock to the Democrats is that, despite the planning and determination to destroy the election process by whatever means necessary, they still couldn't get it done. And now, their methods and attitude are no longer a secret, except to many liberals who won't admit that they and their party crossed the line big time in 2000. I believe the shock of losing their imagined "sure thing" will carry forward for them into both 2002 and 2004, damaging their prospects in both elections. If America is lucky, those subsequent losses will be of a magnitude to consign the Democrat party to low minority status for at least the next decade or two...