Stephanopoulos: Candidate Not Wrong to Say Bush Stole Election

Don Imus, Quoted in NewsMax ^ | 5/14/03 | Carl Limbacher

[Paul Ross]

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Wednesday, May 14, 2003 12:07 p.m. EDT

Stephanopoulos: Candidate Not Wrong to Say Bush Stole Election

In a radio interview Wednesday morning, ABC's "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos defended a claim by one of the Democratic Party presidential candidates that President Bush stole the 2000 election, saying it was "a reasonable inference" based on the evidence.

Stephanopoulos was asked to respond to a comment by former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, who told Sen. Joe Lieberman during the party's May 3 presidential debate: "We need to pursue opportunities for individuals to vote, instead of making it a high hurdle that they have to leap. And in all cases, make certain that we never again allow for the stealing of an election, as happened with you and, and Senator Gore."

Asked why, as the debate's moderator, he didn't challenge Moseley Braun when she made the erroneous claim, Stephanopoulos told radio host Don Imus that the debate rules didn't allow him to follow up.

But in the next breath the objective newsman insisted that Bush really didn't win the state of Florida legitimately.

"I believe that Al Gore got more votes both in, obviously the popular vote," insisted the "This Week" host, "and if you count all the votes in the state of Florida, Al Gore would have had more."

When Imus pointed out that investigations by numerous media organizations failed to turn up compelling evidence that Gore won more Florida votes than Bush, the former Clinton spokesman countered, "To not believe [that Gore beat Bush], you'd have to believe that 30,000 elderly Jewish voters in South Florida voted for Pat Buchanan.

"You can't believe that," Stephanopoulos added.

The Democrat spinmeister-turned-ABC newsman then explained that while he disagreed that the election was deliberately stolen by Bush, he didn't think the claim was unreasonable.

"It doesn't mean that George Bush stole the election," he told Imus. "I don't think he did. But it's just this. I just think it's a reasonable inference."

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[Paul Ross]

Objective news analysis by ABC's finest. Learned parsing of sentances from previous boss. Next stop, Howell Raines job...'to restore the NYT's integrity.'

[SunStar]

"I believe that Al Gore got more votes both in, obviously the popular vote..."

There is no national popular vote in Presidential elections. Get it right, schmuck!

[Post Toasties]

So Stephanopoulos says that GWB 'stole' the election 'by accident'?

This just goes to show that once a lying Xlowntoonian POS, always a lying Xlowntoonian POS.

[Constitution Day]

Bush won.
Get over it, George and Carol.

[tsali1927]

Gorgie Porgie should get down his history book aand look at the "Hayes/Tilden" election which was in 1878, or somewhere near there, and learn how presidential elections are really stolen.

[SES1066]

And Richard Nixon won in 1960 because everybody knows that Chicago's River Wards had the dead voting!

In this case the errors were made by the Palm Beach Democrats from start to finish and, as in elections past, where there is no FRAUD there can be no contest!

[mabelkitty]

He can believe in the Tooth FAIRY for all I care.

It still doesn't make it true.

[Paul Ross]

Yup...that sure was a doozie of election-theft!

[hgro]

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!

[Paul Ross]

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!

Or opening their mouths!

[Dead Dog]

Funny, Stephanopoulus sounds like something you need to get vaccinated for.

[marron]

To believe that GW stole the elections is to believe that Democrat precinct supervisors of Democrat precincts turned away bonafide Democrat voters. You have to believe that Democrat poll workers threw out Democrat votes.

Anyone that says the election was stolen is either irrational or lying.

[VRW Conspirator]

Bush won.
Get over it, George and Carol.

And Bush will win 2004. Stock up on your meds...you idiots!

[Navy Patriot]

So Stephanopoulos says that GWB 'stole' the election 'by accident'?

Yep, that's what he said. Now we can use Stepindroppingsolous alternate universe logic to post a corollary: Algore failed to steal the election on purpose.

[Cameron1]

The only presidential election stolen in our lifetime was by JFK...not George Bush.

Bill Clinton was also elected president by default....thanks to one Ross Perot!! But you will never here libs talking about that.

[Arkie2]

What Georgy meant to say was count all the votes except the absentee military. Sh#thead Wimp!

[LuisBasco]

Actually his name is Stuffinenvelopes.

[Navy Patriot]

Stephanopoulus sounds like something you need to get vaccinated for.

The result of contracting Stephanopoulus is that you turn red inside and out and die ignorant.

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[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

It's good that the left continues to believe this.

For example in the 2002 elections that blew a lot of their powder on challenging Jeb Bush, not because it was a strategically sound thing to do, but because they thought it would bring some sort of "justice" or vindication to what happened in Florida in 2000.

I can only surmise that similar miscalculations will follow for similar reasons. They are starting to sound like Dodger fans who can't forget the Bobby Thomson home run, or Red Sox fans who can't get over Bucky Dent, or Bill Buckner. If they want to live in the past, I say let them!