You're apparently not familiar with the law in the state where you claim to have lived. As a matter of fact, Gore was following the law, which allowed for a candidate to request a recount in counties where the vote tallies between the two leading candidates was within a very small margin of victory.
I don't
claimed to have lived anywhere,
I lived there. Yes, it was an equal protection decision, but I guess that particular one I put forward was my own at the time, was my pet peeve in that it would not have been just to have selected particular counties do a recount...of which you can justly reply,
that was the law of Florida....which is true. But it seems unjust that only the ones, the counties, the challenger chose, democratic counties where there were different standards all of which were being used to various degrees, would/could be utilized...which is indeed what the Supreme Court did rule on, saying that was not valid constitutionally.
Plus, if you are going to hit me with the law, which you should, I have to hit back in that
there was a state constitutional deadline,
a safe harbor date, and the Supreme Court of Florida, which is not the legislature, had no power or jurisdiction under state law to amend that date as set in the state Constitution. And it was past that date on the recounts....So,
live by the law, die by the law....
or in our case,
live by the law, live by the law.
We win. And guess what...
We actually, in the history books now, did win. Dontcha just love it? I know I do.
Probably very few. First of all, Gore was declared the winner in just one time zone before the polls closed, not two. And that announcement came about 10 minutes before the polls closed in the Panhandle.
Well, at least you are confirming that it happened. Which leads us to the fact that, even if very few, the election was that close and the very few could have made a
great difference. And
it could have been a whole bunch, we will never know... in any event, the fact is Bush Won. Ha ha ha...thanks for giving me another opportunity to say that, man that makes me smile...truth and good do, it seems, finally triumph.
What did you win? Oh, that's right ... you stuck America with a president who took us to war over WMD which didn't exist, did nothing to prevent the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, left office with fewer private sector jobs than when he started, had the lowest JAR in U.S. history, crashed the stock market, housing markets, credit markets, and left our economy in the worst condition it's been in since the Great Depression.
Good job, rightwinger! :thumbs:
Bush did an amazing job with the hand he was dealt. And give up the Republicans owned these wars... yes the president led, but he also followed. Remember that little matter of the Iraqi regime change law Clinton signed? All that chemical weaponry that the inspectors had inventoried after the First Gulf War that, even with 17 UN resolutions, Iraq could not account for [ those are WMDs and he had had them, now was saying he didn't, blah blah.... you folks are so full of horse droppings on this stuff...
And you forget that it was the spending promoted by the Democrats that we, the right, held our legislators and GW accountable for, booted a lot of them mid term, that led to all that crap you so aptly describe. Barney, Dodd, Reid, Kennedy, Obama all asking too much and keeping us from policing Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, wrong thread to go into such detail, but its all there, have argued it unbeaten many a time.
So, way to go left wingers. :thumbs:
Oh, and just to remind you, in case you had somehow forgotten....
BUSH WON. :lamo
