Reply #67: Incorrect? [View All]

How so? Bush is in the WH. Winning the popular vote is not the way we do things in the USA.

Bush, if you recall, was ahead in the original count. Bush was ahead after the recount. Gore had to go to court. If he had not, Bush would be President. So he did. Bush knew that he would do this, therefore he also went to court.

Decisions went back and forth, but in the end, the Supreme Court said "enough". The decision did not go the way that I wanted, or that you wanted, but when you go to court, you take a chance. After all, the courts aren't really about justice but about the law. The system is set up to end disputes, not rancor or pain.

So we were stuck with 4, count 'em 4 years of Bush as President. Then there was another election. For whatever reasons our leadership was not able to solve the problems, be they election fraud, or failing to appeal to enough people, or more likely, both.

So we got another 4, count 'em 4, years of Bush.

And instead of trying to figure out how to win in 2008, and spare us another 4, count 'em 4, years of neocon misrule, we keep trying to replay 2000??

OK, if that works for you. But it doesn't work for me. I think we should keep changing the playbook until we find the way.

However, good luck to you and Al Gore, if he chooses to run. Rest assured that if he wins the Democratic nomination, I will give him the same support in the general election that I would to my own favorite Democratic candidate, and the one I'm putting a plug in for right here, Clark.

:)