[goldstategop]

The Democrats got their heads handed to them last year. If they still think Florida is a winner, they're invited to bring up the issue again in 2004.

[Chad Fairbanks]

What? The 2000 Election stuff? When did this happen?


;0)

[4mycountry]

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

Great article
George Will had a couple columns that deserve to be laminated to the back of this one;

"Gore is back, breathing fire and revising history"
Nov. 21, 2002
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will112102.asp

"Gore, Hungry for Power"
Nov. 13, 2000
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will111300.asp

On second thought - libs won't read the first one or understand, so Will's are just more to which they can close their little minds.

[Peach]

And the article didn't mention the networks "accidentally" called the election for Gore when it appeared he'd won Florida - EVEN THOUGH THE PANHANDLE IS IN A DIFFERENT TIMEZONE AND PEOPLE WERE STILL VOTING.

Depending on which survey you believe, between 1-3 million voters on the west coast decided not to vote when they heard Gore declared a winner.

[RandyRep]

Excellent find!!!

The article is exactly freeping right on all counts. This is a keeper.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Journalism called states for Gore early, with low statistical reliability, and called states for Bush only grudgingly, when the result was far more certain. Even unto calling FL for Gore before all the polls in the state were closed, when Bush was the actual winner.

But let a cousin of GWB help call the FL election correctly, and long after all the polls in the country were closed, and journalism ranted about the possible establishment of an illegitmate "expectation" by that correct call--and essentially ignored the fact that it had called FL wrong. This is only to be understood as an admission that their fast calls for Gore were intended precisely for the purpose of favoring Gore the way they accused FNC of favoring Bush.

Journalism believes in the power of PR, and journalism took its best PR shot at giving Gore the election. From journalism's perspective it should not have been possible, but Bush won. So of all the constituencies of the Democratic Party, IMHO it is Journalism which is most aggrieved.

[visualops]

Tell him to vent at the person who really did keep Gore out of the White House: Ralph Nader.

And just like Cosmo Kramer with no underwear, Nader was "lovin' every minute of it!"

[mwfsu84]

All of this would be moot if Al Gore had won his home state. Even in their landslide losses, Mondale and Dukakis carried their home states.

[freedomlover]

But dyspeptic Democrats don't launch their tirades solely at the college. They continue to spew the twin lies that President Bush "stole" the Florida election or was anointed by a conservative Supreme Court. A review of the facts debunks both.

Faacts? Wee don need no stinking faacts!!!

[PetroniDE]

Remember this photo. Sample of the great pictures from this event.

[Tarl]

The only reason this became an issue was because one "man" didn't have the decency as other presidential hopefuls did in the past to concede the race. Mr. Gore started out to do the right thing but when called by a desparate party hopeful that maybe "something" could be swung in Florida, his phone call to President Bush was one of smugness and akin to his gradeschool antics he told G.W. Bush "not to get snippy with him".

They dragged our nation through the mud, shamed our election system and convinced people eager to gulp in such news that their vote had been "stolen" and civil rights abused. The Democratic Party has no shame and from the looks of it continues on in their destructive course hoping to drag America down with them.