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AmishDude, Maybe what partly motivated this article was Gore's desire to come up with an excuse for his silence to FL voters in Election 2000 -- and see if that excuse sells.

It doesn't sell to me. Come November, when I vote, I will still remember it was NO THANKS to any Dem local, state or national leader that FL people won on an important environmental issue.

Instead, it was thanks to the GOP gov and his GOP brother. Yes, big surprise, but true. And, they got the deal done before the 20 months time it took Gore to figure out what excuses he would float to voters in this article.

IMO, that 1996-2001 report on the airport proposal from the Army was obviously delayed for years, for reasons Gore never intends to explain. But, thankfully, Gore lost in 2000. Otherwise we would have had a new commercial airport in the Everglades by now.

[AmishDude]

Damage control. Very very much damage control. I also think the theme for 2004 will be: "Don't leave the reservation, you Greenies caused us to lose last time."

Unfortunately for the Dems, GW has a big lead and the activists will feel even safer voting for Nader or whomever the principled candidate will be. And then, I hope, we'll see a major split in the party.