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To: combjelly who wrote (195936)	7/27/2004 11:55:50 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584760

"Clearly, the left wasn't paying close attention" You got that right. And not just the left, it was everyone to the left of, say, Genghis Khan. Assuming, of course, that the whole left-right dicotomy is really valid. Gore lost. Or, at least, he was close enough that a single state with an electoral history at least as colorful as Texas made the difference. Ralph gets the blame for that, and it is pretty unfair. I don't think that's all that unfair. Nader mostly took votes away from the Dems.......in fact, he took enough votes in key states to make a difference in Gore's electoral college total. Gore, and by extension the Democrats, didn't make their case. And they lost. Smirk was vulnerable on so many fronts, but Gore couldn't exploit any of them. All they had to do was bring up his record as a failed businessman, the way he manipulated a city government to condemn private property to use for a sports stadium and then pass the cost of the resulting lawsuit onto the city, the way he raped a state government to further his own ambitions, the way he has lied and cheated his way through his whole life. None of that was an issue. And it should have been. To add insult to injury, they allowed him to distort Gore's record and accomplishments in a way that made him look like Dubya really was. My biggest complaint about Gore is that he lacks the killer instinct. If he wanted the WH badly enough, the things you mention above would not have happened or happened as need be. He would not have rolled over and played dead when Bush ran to the SC. More than anyone else, I blame Gore and his campaign for the mess we are in. BTW, I, for one, had no idea that someone with the record of Bush could make it all the way to the presidency. Yes, there was Reagan but I thought he was a Hollywood fluke that happened because he had been a movie star at some point in his life. I think its imperative that we establish some kind of screening process to insure that our presidential candidates have enough of the right stuff to run for office. And now they are angry. For what? They dropped the ball in 2000. It'd serve them right if there really are backdoors in the Diebold code to allow for only the "correct" votes to be registered... I think the anger is good.....its good for them; its good for me. Its woken me up to the possibility that the wrong president could ruin this country; that we can't take our elections so lightly. Hopefully, others will get the same message. ted