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Yeah, I must say: while the black community was "buzzing" with this news about this judicial appointment by Gov. Bush, and others were thrilled about headlines regarding his other highly qualified appointment, Alec seemed to lose a lot of traction on this this trip, as he abruptly changed the topic from "unequal opportunity" to election reform.

Yet, even with that new topic, he only drew 200 people -- probably since FL DID reform its election procedures and everyone in FL knows that. Even Al Gore publicly praised FL on that!

Alec couldn't even later persuade Hillary Clinton to agree with his very offensive comparison of Electoin 2000 to 9-11, as reported today in the NY Post:

'BUSH LEAGUE' BALDWIN IN 9/11 INSULT

By ROBERT HARDT Jr.

NY Post - March 9, 2002 -- Actor Alec Baldwin raised eyebrows at the '21' Club yesterday when he compared the Sept. 11 attacks to President Bush's victory, referring to the election resu lts as "the other catastrophic event that happened in this country."

Fresh from a trip to Florida where he called for voting reform - and also equated the deadly 9/11 terror with the results at the polls in 2000 - Baldwin made his remarks at a luncheon with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that was sponsored by The New Yorker magazine.

After Clinton had responded to several questions about the terror attacks and her role in winning federal rebuilding aid, Baldwin, who was among the 200 guests, posed a question.

"Senator, I want to ask you a question about the other catastrophic event that happened in this country before 9/11 - which was the election of 2000," Baldwin said to laughter from some and raised eyebrows from others in the audience.

Clinton didn't address Baldwin's comparison to 9/11, and spoke of her legislation to reform the country's election system.

Baldwin, a well-known Democratic activist, made comparisons to Sept. 11 that were even stronger on Thursday when he told a Florida A&M University that the controversial presidential vote "has done as much damage to our country as any terrorist attack could do, in some ways."

"I know that's a harsh thing to say, perhaps, but I believe that what happened in 2000 did as much damage to the pillars of democracy as terrorists did to the pillars of commerce in New York City," Baldwin said to applause from the audience in Tallahassee.

Baldwin also said in Florida that he believed that the White House and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hope the war in Afghanistan continues indefinitely because of the political benefits.

"When Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon spokespeople say to you ‘Well, this is going to be a long war. We're going to be in Afghanistan for the long haul,' what that euphemism means is that the moratorium on criticizing the government must be extended longer and longer and longer - ideally, beyond the 2002 election."

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush - President Bush's brother - made light of Baldwin's presence in his state, saying: "He had promised he would leave the country if my brother got elected. Well he's back, I guess."

Baldwin fumed in response: "You can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not going to leave the country, because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004.

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."

Jeb Bush is up for re-election this year.

Baldwin, who's from Massapequa, previously got himself into hot water in December 1998 when he urged the audience on Conan O'Brien's "Late Night" TV show to kill Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.).

"I'm thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would, all right now, all of us together, all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death," Baldwin said.

At yesterday's luncheon, Hillary Clinton said that improving the voting system in Florida was something that all residents there should support.

"There ought to be a tremendous outcry in Florida on a non-partisan, bipartisan basis," Clinton said.

"Senator, I want to ask you a question about the other catastrophic event that happened in this country before 9/11 - which was the election of 2000," Baldwin said to laughter from some and raised eyebrows from others in the audience.

Smart Alec, let's review:

Media Democrats said Florida polls were closed, though western time zone polls were open;

Media Democrats awarded Florida to Gore, further suppressing turnout of Republicans, though no statistical basis existed;

Dimpled chads were proof of vote fraud, said manufacturer of Vote-A-Matic;

Vote-A-Matic ballot puncher was stolen and found in trunk of Democrat political activist;

Democrat lawyers formed shock squads using five-page memo to disenfranchise our servicemen and women attempting to vote absentee from bases around the world;

Democrats attempted Miss Cleo-type fabrication of voter intent in so-called "under-votes";

Democrats attempted every type of violation of election law imaginable in frenzied attempt to pad Gore vote;

Secretary of State Katherine Harris attempted to enforce existing election law and was demonized by Democrat media (Dan Rather, this Bud's for you.);

Supreme Court of Florida (SCOFLA) played the part of the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, dictated that clocks would run backwards and pigs would fly;

Supreme Court of U.S. (SCOTUS) restored rule of law;

George W. Bush became our 43d President;

Al Gore became a bearded university professor;

Alec Baldwin became a bearded, fat, out of work, divorced liar.

Facts are terrible things.