Al Gore made the decision on election night to destroy any normalcy that this country knew before that night. It has and never will be the same ever again. Al Gore is responsible for the the way politics is now fought and how the office of the President of the U.S.A. is treated so cheaply by the world.
Al Gore has taken this country to new lows every single time he has opened his mouth and allowing this disgrace to go on for well over a month made us a laughing stock globally.
I would love to sit here and blame Al Gore for just about every single problem we face as a nation today because of his and the DNC's election antics because Lord knows George W. Bush sure has taken the blame for everything under the sun since the election of 2000.
The bastard Gore destroyed this country the night he decided to withdraw his concession.
Al Gore deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life and not walking down the red carpet getting an Oscar in a month for a pile of shit documentary. He sold this country out with Clinton and put himself first before his country when it came time to the national election.
He can go to hell.
Amen and precisely the point.
It was close, very close. You play by the rules, there were two recounts according to the rules. Gore lost.
Anyone who cared more about the country than himself would have accepted the rules. Nixon did at least as much in 60.
Gore chose himself over the good of the country - and forever jepordized the confidence of the ballot box. A very damaging act for the republic.
This should haunt him forever. He should be a pariah and his public career should be over.
Yes, but he had a lot of help from the Supreme Court.
The Congress could have and would have restored what Gore took away, had they not been pre-empted by the Court's foolish decision to rule on a political question.
The political question created by the FLA Supremes would have had a political resolution, and, at the very worst, Joe Lieberman would have been VP instead of Cheney.
When the USSC enters and attempts to resolve political questions (Roe v. Wade being the best example in our time, Scott v. Sanford the best of all time), disaster follows, as it did here.
I agree with every word you said.
There is a disgust with Al Gore and his attempt to turn this country's electiion into a banana republic lookalike that I just can't get over.
When I look at him I see a child who never could play by the rules, an impossible entitled spoiled spoil sport whose parents raised him like a little Fauntleroy, a boy who other boys detested,,,all grown up trying to pervert the electoral system of the greatest republic ever known. And almost succeeding.
Thank God for the Supreme Court in this case.
Excellent post!!