Thank you! I sometimes forget there are other brothers on Free Republic!
The one point where I disagree is that I think there really was systematic disenfranchisement in Florida in 2000. That doesn't mean I wanted Gore to win; I didn't. But I'd rather Bush have won fair and square.
Now, are the Democrats hypocrites for crying about Florida but not, say New York or Illinois? Of course! Were they hypocrites for not complaining about John F. Kennedy's victory in Illinois in 1960? Of course! But even a broken clock is right twice a day. Pointing out their failure to be right in other situations is not a rebuttal of their argument about Florida.
Black it would seem that Democrats only care about so-called voter disenfranchisement, when it affects their candidate. I lived in Maryland in 2000 and I was unable to vote along with 20,000 others due to a so-called computer error thru motor voter, but did the NAACP and the whole host of other so-called voter's rights groups care? No the state went firmly to Al Gore and thus no harm no foul.