"... handed the presidency ..."
I love how they make this stuff up. Bush WON! And .. the reason I'm sure of that is because of some little known actions that were taken by the drive-by media.
One year after the 2000 election, as the law allows, several media groups, including the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and the rest of the assorted lefties in the news media, petitioned the govt for a recount. They paid their money for the priviledge (hundreds of thousands of dollars) .. and began the recount. NOT ONE TIME DURING THE MANY RECOUNTS WERE THEY EVER ABLE TO ESTABLISH THAT GORE WON THE ELECTION; ONLY IF THEY CHEATED. SO AFTER MANY, MANY RECOUNTS - IT WAS FINALLY DETERMINED THAT BUSH DID WIN THE ELECTION - AND THE ACTUAL RECOUNT NUMBER WAS SOMETHING LIKE 1500 - instead of 537.
The fact that the same media groups NEVER REVEALED THIS INFORMATION EXCEPT ON THE BACK PAGES OF THEIR NEWSPAPERS - and never on the internet .. approximately 35% of Americans still believe Gore won the election. When you have media groups willing to deceive the public in order keep the hatred of Bush viable, that's more than dispicable .. it's traitorous.
Once they pulled off that deception .. the lies about the war were a cinch.
And .. as far as the courts were concerned .. the FL Supreme court were the ones who RE-WROTE the election laws of FL .. which is illegal. Once the election is in progress .. you cannot change the laws. This was the real reason the USSC stepped in to stop the fiasco.
All the court action was also deceptively reported on over and over and over. It ended with - the USSC "... handed the presidency to Bush ..." as if he hadn't actually won it.
I've never forgiven the media for this total deception.
'Forgive' them? You aren't naive enough to have believed they wouldn't lie to you. You don't forgive the sworn enemy who is doing everything it can to destroy you, you kill it. And that's what the Net is doing, little by little. I only hope there's enough time to save the nation from the corrosion the mainstream media bastards have created.
Another factoid which has been drilled in the American psyche. The 5-4 ruling was to immediately stop the umpteenth post-election vote manufacturing recount. Two of the justices thought a few extra days (at most) could possibly be allowed.
The real vote in Bush v. Gore was 7-2 against counting some votes (winos, hanging chads, duplicates, overvotes and undervotes) more than others (military, people who understood how to mark a ballot). The only two in this key vote were the two Clinton appointees.
7-2 was the key vote in the ruling. 5-4 was only about the timing.
Was there egg on their faces when it showed Bush had won even after playing games with chads.
I don't know the disposition of the contested overseas ballots that arrived late but were postmaked prior to election. Of course, those ballots, if counted, went over 70% for Bush.