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John Bolton v. Democracy
The Nation Online ^ | 4-27-05 | John Nichols

Posted on 04/27/2005 8:09:38 AM PDT by stan_sipple

Bolton was a key player in the fight to delay the Florida count long enough to allow for the Supreme Court's intervention, and he got his reward quickly. Despite his record of making controversial and sometimes bizarre statements regarding international affairs, he was selected by the Bush administration in 2001 to serve as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control. And he is now in line to become the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Before he is given that position, and charged with the job of promoting the spread of democracy around the world, however, senators would do well to consider the disregard John Bolton showed for democracy in Florida.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2000election; bolton; democrats; floridarecount; getoveritwewon; johnbolton; republicans; soreloserman; ussenate
The REAL reason the Demos want Bolton out, he's the cop who stopped Gore's liquor store robbery of the 2000 presidential election
1 posted on 04/27/2005 8:09:41 AM PDT by stan_sipple
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To: stan_sipple

Gore was the guy who brought court action first in Florida;

Gore was the guy who demanded a recount in only four heavily democratic counties in Florida;

The action-causing event of the debacle in Florida in 2000 was Al Gore's campaign going ballistic - not the Bush people.

Viva Bolton!


2 posted on 04/27/2005 8:16:29 AM PDT by RexBeach ("I can see it now. You and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you." -Groucho Marx)
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To: stan_sipple

Gore was the guy who brought court action first in Florida;

Gore was the guy who demanded a recount in only four heavily democratic counties in Florida;

The action-causing event of the debacle in Florida in 2000 was Al Gore's campaign going ballistic - not the Bush people.

Viva Bolton!


3 posted on 04/27/2005 8:16:50 AM PDT by RexBeach ("I can see it now. You and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you." -Groucho Marx)
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Gore-Boies didnt really want all votes counted, even confined recount request to only certain precints in those democrat voting counties. Plus democrat voting boards disqualified thousands of military ballots when under 1982 federal decree should have been counted. Gore was counting on the lawless Florida supreme Court's giving him the election.

http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/books/florida.html


4 posted on 04/27/2005 8:22:30 AM PDT by stan_sipple
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Good one, Stan!


5 posted on 04/27/2005 8:29:14 AM PDT by RexBeach ("I can see it now. You and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you." -Groucho Marx)
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check out the on line book from Hoover, lays out in sordid detail all the games Gore team was playin g


6 posted on 04/27/2005 8:32:38 AM PDT by stan_sipple
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To: stan_sipple

Let's be historically accurate here. The people who wanted to fix the Florida vote were the Democrats under Gore's leadership. Gore's efforts to get the votes recounted in predominately Democrat areas was an effort to change the election result. The anti-democratic thieves in Florida were the Democrats.


7 posted on 04/27/2005 9:27:55 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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For those who like nightmare scenarios, what would the World be like if this was the fifth year of the Gore Presidency?


8 posted on 04/27/2005 9:30:35 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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For those who like nightmare scenarios, what would the World be like if this was the fifth year of the Gore Presidency?

While President Gore probably would have responded to 9/11 better than we might think, the country would have been merciless with his dithering and fired him.

9 posted on 04/27/2005 9:39:44 AM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: stan_sipple

Nichols isn't interested in democracy, but rather, democratocracy.


10 posted on 04/27/2005 9:48:10 AM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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"What would life be like under a Gore presidency"

there would be detention camps at Guantanamo Bay, but the Al Gorleone administration version of the patriot act required white heterosexual christian men who own firearms detained so musim extremists would not attack us out of offense at us


11 posted on 04/27/2005 10:29:32 AM PDT by stan_sipple
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To: stan_sipple

OMG - trying to tie him into the Rat lie of "Bush stole the election?" - lower than low. If the MSM weren't likely to lap it up, it would be humorous.


12 posted on 04/27/2005 10:51:41 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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No mention of Rat lie "Gregoire stole WA governorship" by stuffing King county ballot boxes with thousands of invalid votes


13 posted on 04/27/2005 1:14:29 PM PDT by stan_sipple
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