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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (397644)	4/23/2003 4:53:07 PM
From: Jerrel Peters	Respond to of 769667

Bush just got rid of the Frogs. The locusts will be history late next year.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (397644)	4/23/2003 5:02:09 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: "If Bush stays if office how long will it be before we have locust and frogs?" From today's The Note, regarding the influence of environmentalist's votes in the 2000 election: ...One 2000 Gore supporter wrote in to say: "A very interesting analysis of the environment and Presidential politics. But, isn't something missing … ." "Like … " "HOW ENVIRONMENTALISTS COST DEMOCRATS THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2000!" "How GREENS — who ran around the country telling folks that Bush and Gore were exactly alike — deprived Gore of a greater than 50% total of the popular vote — which would have made him the first Democratic Presidential candidate since 1964 to get that amount, and only the second since 1944 to do so!" "How GREENS cost us 90,000 votes in Florida, an electoral outrage that DWARFS the consequences of all the liberal complaints about Florida — non-registered felons and butterfly ballots and snake ballots and off-duty cops near polling places and Seminole and Martin Counties and the like — COMBINED. We spent 36 days in Florida, whittling an initial Bush win of 1,800 votes down to a final tally of 537 votes — moving 2% of the GREEN vote to Gore would have made it all moot." "How GREENS cost us 20,000 votes in New Hampshire — a state Gore lost by 7,000 votes, and which would have given us the electoral votes to win EVEN WITHOUT FLORIDA." "How GREENS made NM, WI, and MN close — very close — and required the campaign to spending time, energy and $$ there that could have been used to win MO or FLA." "And how about the enviros who attacked Gore for not being pure enough on environmental issues (see Phil Clapp, National Environmental Trust) and ran ads attacking Gore early on in the cycle, and then fool hardily embraced Bush in October when Bush took 'an even tougher stand on mandatory emissions controls than Gore' — a commitment that, oops, was dropped when he came to office." "The environmentalists are ineffective? I don't think so. No group did more — except, perhaps, the Christian Right — to put George Bush in the White House." abcnews.go.com