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You are exactly right; Gore made his bed but didn’t want to sleep there. There isn’t much more to it as far as the truth about 2000 is concerned. My brother and I were guessing which way each state would go in ’04 last night and the subject of Florida came up. The butterfly ballot voters who were too idiotic to read the ballot won’t make the same mistake next time, meaning that Bush will have to make up around 20,000 votes there. Does Bush have a much stronger position in Florida this time then in 2000, because if he doesn’t he better get moving?

The true legacies of the 2000 election are:

1. African-Americans finally discovered that literacy, or rather the lack of it, has consequences at the voting booth. Naturally, the Revs. Jackson and Sharpton chose not to highlight this embarassing, and tragic situation: they were too busy threatening riots if they did not get their way (i.e. Gore in the White House).

2. The issue of vote fraud was finally moved from the darkened, smokey back rooms of politics and was exposed to the clear light of day. Examples:
- The City of Philadelphia reported (with a straight face) 103% voter turnout.
- Missouri Democrats reversed a long-standing tradition and got live people to vote for a dead man. SOmehow, his wife got his job, leading me to try to remember just where it is stated in the Constitution that one could inherit a Senate seat.
- Illegal aliens all over the country were hastily supplied with flimsy paper notices from the then Commander-in-crotch...errr...cheif, suddenly bestowing upon them the right to vote. Amazingly, most of these showed up in Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Chicago.
- Creditable stories of people being offered money and goods for their vote were a dime a dozen at the time. From the homeless in Milwaukee being given food asnd cigarettes to vote for Al Gore, to the tales of vote buying on Indian Reservations in North Dakota.

3. Certain subsets of Americans finally proved that Western Civilization is the greatest invention on the planet, that allows the feeble and the feebleminded to not only survive, yet prosper, regardless of your inability to poke a hole through a piece of cardboard with a sharp piece of metal, count, or read signs directing you to help with your ballot pasted on every vertical surface every 4 inches, or even be aware of just what the heck you're doinig in a voting booth.

4. The judicial system was finally exposed for what it truly is: a bunch of people in black robes, faking dignity and accountability, and making up the law as they go. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Florida, where the state supreme court refused to enforce the very election laws they are sworn to uphold.

5. America was finally given the opportunity to the see the REAL Democratic Party in action, using every means available to make a naked grab for power.

6. We saw Al Gore for what he really is: a spoiled brat, who throws a tantrum when he doesn't get his way.

7. We learned that the intensive media coverage of elections, more to fill airtime than anything else, has consequences at the voting booth --- the early call for Gore in Florida may have hurt Bush (the state straddles two time zones). The media has no business projecting winners, since it has the power to manipulate the results, and should wait until the tallies are in before making such announcements.

8. We were introduced to the lovely, and gutsy, Catherine Harris.

The butterfly ballot was a canard floated by the RAT's. The ballot was designed and approved by the RAT controlled board of elections. The ballot was similar to other ballots used successfully throughout the country. The phony ballot issue implies that the RATs were too stupid to use it. It resulted in a sign used during the time of the great inconvenience that said, "Hey Al! Stupid is as stupid does."

Part of any good get out the vote effort is voter education on the ballot. In addition, polling places have detailed instructions on how to vote.