[vollmond]

Al Gore missed his chance. Had he accepted a single machine recount and then bowed out gracefully for "the good of the country", his stature would be much higher today. His concession speech would only have to say that he had won the popular vote, and a fight in the courts might change the electoral outcome, but he would not be the one to subject the country to that kind of acrimony and division. And he'd be back in four years.

Hindsight is 20-20, but if he had taken that kind of principled stand back then, he'd have the Democrat nomination sewn up and be blowing President Bush away in the polls right now.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Al Gore missed his chance. Had he accepted a single machine recount and then bowed out gracefully for "the good of the country", his stature would be much higher today."

His own constituency hated his guts so much that they gave the state to Bush. If Gore wins Tennessee Florida becomes irrelevant.

One day the libs will get this.