Posted on 11/04/2004 1:04:51 PM PST by kathy4500
Lets take a quick look at Kerry's motivation for conceding:
1. He waited until the analysis showed he would lose. 2. If he was to wait 11 days for the full count, he knew he would lose anyway. He would be perceived as a sore loser. 3. This way he is the gracious loser so he can still be welcomed to drink wine on the sidewalk cafes of Paris and Antwerp and else where in the Continent. Plus real surf-boarders are sportsmen 4. If he had extended the process, he would have been regarded as a sore loser and much less welcome to wine over there. Even the French dislike sore losers like Gore. 5. This way he maintains his image and ticket to the bon-vivant society.
He lost...had no avenues to sue...that's why he "conceeded" if you want to put it that way..Even without the "concession speech" he still was the loser.
I don't think he could afford to take a chance that the votes in PA. and MI. might end up being scrutinized.
I rather suspect that the "underlying reason" was this scene from about two weeks ago...
The phone rings.
Kerry: Hello?
Karl Rove: Hello, Senator. Karl Rove here. Got a proposition for you.
Kerry: Um... well... [looks around nervously]
Rove: Tell you what. We have come across a little artifact from the early '70s. Seems you were dishonorably discharged.
Kerry: I have an honorable discharge.
Rove: Thanks to Jimmy Carter five years later, yes. But just like you voted for the troops before you voted against them, you were dishonorably discharged before you were honorably discharged. Don't insult my intelligence. You know what I'm talking about.
Kerry: [long silence]
Rove: So what I propose is this. I propose to do nothing with it. Got that? Nothing. Bringing this up now would merely lower the lofty tone we're both striving to maintain, don't you agree?
Kerry: [long silence]
Rove: On the other hand, should a situation like Florida in 2000 arise, and you are under pressure to send out your legal buzzards to pick through chads, you might want to remember that we have this.
Kerry: Is that a threat?
Rove: Did I say threat? On the contrary, I am proposing to do nothing with this. Nothing at all. I was very clear about that. I am also soliciting your ...support... so that we won't drag the country through another sore-loserman affair, only to have you be disqualified for the presidency for reasons of collaboration with the enemy.
Kerry: So... to win, I must win, is that what you're saying?
Rove: Beyond the margin of lawyer, yes. Look, I gotta run. Have a nice day, Senator.
[click]
Kerry: [silence]
Kerry: Teresa, where do you keep your raisins?
He didn't want to end up being a doppleganger like Al Gore. Nor would I.
May I suggest that he got wind of the Swifties planning to file charges of Treason, based on new evidence??
Excellent -Ping.
A concession is not legally binding. Don't ignore what's under the radar.
Ignoring the worries that he might still be planning something ...
Other possibilities:
- worried about his own senate seat in '08
- the DNC told him a legal fight would expose OH Dem fraud
- the DNC told him, go right ahead, but YOU have to pay the
lawyers, because the Clintons are satisfied with you as the
Designated Loser, and have closed the DNC purse
Another word for "gracious loser" is "LOSER".
I think neither his speech nor edwards was particularly conciliatory. They both sounded like whinny losers.
Regards,
GtG
and Wisconsin.
Did I forget to mention that's a FEDERAL FELONY that just might have found some serious Dem operatives in hot water? Not to mention the National damage even GREATER that the exposure would have inflicted on the party?
DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner!
Kerry got at least 52 electoral votes in states that were CLOSER than Bush's margin in Ohio. If Bush had picked up NH, WI, MI and PA he would have won the electoral college by 138 points. Kerry won some of these states under very fishy circumstances.
Wonderful! Can we have it made into a movie?
Agreed. Kerry's speech would have seemed much more "gracious" if it was given on the night of the election.
Priceless....
It's worth a peek.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270690/posts
could you put my mind at ease?
Is there still a question whether OH could turn to Kerry and turn this around?
People at work were saying Yes.
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