SCALIA RAPS GORE FOR '00 (USSC Justice says Gore people forced election 2000 into courts)

NY POST ^ | November 22, 2005 | FRANKIE EDOZIEN

[Liz]

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the high court did not inject itself into the 2000 presidential election.

.......Scalia said: "The election was dragged into the courts by the Gore people. We did not go looking for trouble." .........the court had to take the case.

"The issue was whether Florida's Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court [would decide the election.] What did you expect us to do? Turn the case down because it wasn't important enough?"

(Scalia) contended there would have been a difficult transition had the court not stepped in....... (and that) studies by news organizations.....showed Bush still would have won a Florida recount

[Real Cynic No More]

As far as the Florida legislators not stepping up, I recall differently than you. They were prepared to assign electors for Bush. But the USSC made that unnecessary. At least that's what I recall.

[nicmarlo]

"The election was dragged into the courts by the Gore people. .......The issue was whether Florida's Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court [would decide the election.] What did you expect us to do? Turn the case down because it wasn't important enough?"

Those stupid goreites! : )

[WillamShakespeare]

I always get a kick out of the libs who say Bush stole the election when in fact it was the Algore who tried to steal it and was prevented from doing so.

Who asked Jesse Jackson to come down to Florida to stage a fake protest about blacks being turned away at the polls?

Algore.

Who tried to get overseas ballots disqualified?

Algore

Who used every trick in the book to get unpunched ballot cards recounted in his favor?

Algore

Who used every trick in the book to get ballot cards recounted over and over?

Algore

It was the Algore who started that whole chad crap and it was Algore who tried to steal the election and you can see it on his fat face nowdays.

OWNED

[digger48]

OUCH!!!!

[Borax Queen]

He's disgusting. Bloated and bitter, reminds me of Murdering Drunkard Kennedy.

[nicmarlo]

good comparison.

[Rummyfan]

Al Gore is many things: a jerk, a pompous ass, an enviro-whacko. Maybe he can't help those things, it's the way God made him. But, dragging the country through a six-week court battle trying to steal an election and fostering a Constitutional crisis and forever starting the 'Bush was appointed' mantra was entirely his doing and for this he should be damned.

[Rummyfan]

But all those people who voted for Buchanan meant to vote for Gore! Can't we just have another election? Thinking back on those days makes my blood boil, the nightly insanity on the news, the Gore family playing touch football...... There were some high points though: Freepers chanting outside the Veep's residence 'get out of Cheney's house!'

[Rummyfan]

I remember seing Bill Bennett on O'Reilly, in the first days after election day, saying this would have to go to the Supreme Court to get resolved. As with all things liberals are involved in, adjudication would be necessary. Dang if he wasn't right on. The SCOFLA legislated from the bench in an outrageous manner.

[Rummyfan]

The tragedy for the country is that Gore, true to his liberal Democrat roots, cared more about obtaining power than doing what was right for the country.

Nixon - with more legitimate right in 1960 than Gore ever had in 2000 - could have challenged the election results in Illinois; and his friends and allies suggested he make that challenge. He chose not to, telling his friends that no matter what the outcome of such a challenge brought, neither he nor Kennedy would win because the political process of the challenge would leave the "victorious" President and the nation badly crippled in the process. At that point in time, Nixon was a statesman. Gore was a power hungry ass.

Good summary.

[Democratshavenobrains]

This statement is long overdue. The Democrats have basically been calling all the Justices that that voted on Bush's side cheaters for 5 years.

[Rummyfan]

And the butterfly ballot was too confusing! If you court voters who are to stupid to vote, that's what you get!

[Dems_R_Losers]

You forgot the disgusting memo from the DNC telling the Rat lawyers how to get military ballots thrown out. Marc Racicot's news conference revealing this scheme and the memo was priceless - one of the great moments in American history. By the end of the day Holy Joe Lieberman had to renounce the effort. The election was essentially won at that point, the rest of it was just argument.

Rats also conveniently forget that the essential SCOTUS ruling was a 7-2 vote - that the SCOFL-ordered recount violated the 14th Amendment. The 5-4 ruling was on the less important issue, that Florida would not have time to conduct a constitutionally proper statewide recount in time for the state to certify its electors by the constitutionally-mandated deadline of December 13th. That ruling did "end the election," but Bush would have won anyway had the recount been allowed. The SCOTUS simply refused to ignore the plain text of the constitution which required electoral votes to be certified by December 13.

The Rats were "hoist on their own petard" with this ruling. Had they immediately demanded a statewide hand recount with uniform vote-counting standards, it would have survived a GOP legal challenge and been done by Dec. 13. Of course, Bush would have won it, which is why the Rats didn't ask for it in the first place.

[IndyInVa]

IIRC, they did argue for states' rights during the civil rights movement in the 50's and/or 60's. They were in favor of states' rights in order to deny equal rights to blacks. So, you see, they are capable of being legally correct if they can turn it to an evil purpose.

[Liz]

Thank goodness Scalia had the guts to step up to the plate.

[gondramB]

"Are you suggesting that the results were determined by "lawyering" rather than by the facts?"

The Gore team made a really stupid mistake - calling for recounts in only certain counties rather than the whole state - there was law to back up a whole state recount.


But honestly, in the end, the election was decided by who had a 5 person majority on the supreme court. One more liberal justice and Gore would might well have been President.

[arasina]

Look at the first picture of Gore in post #15.

That's a "rotary" phone on the table behind him.

You do know that's not really Al Gore in that photo, right? :o)

[chiller]

You and others are probably remembering better than me. It should've gone there and didn't, so I was thinking there was some hesitancy to grab the issue. I supppose Dems legal action usurped the proper course of action? Has this been resolved, I wonder, in Florida law?

In hindsight, the legislature damn well should have done so instead of letting it fall into a quirky courst system. The ultimate example of judicial activism.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

I remember so vividly that Saturday when they stopped the recount in FL... Gore kept coming closer, and closer, and closer.

Election 2000 really made me give thanks to God in ways I never had. I know this will drive some people nuts, but I still think Bush was selected by God not elected by the people.

[OrioleFan]

And if they would ever do a real investigation of the mess, they would probably find that VNS was in cahoots with Gore 2000, and that Goreons were the ones that were wiring the ballots in Florida. It was the Gore campaign that contracted with they Public Relations firm in Texarkana to contact people about their votes not counting before the polls closed. There are posts all over FR documenting this.