Reply #21: Hear! Hear!

[bhairava]

I remember it vividly and was prepared to see the EC's demolition. I also remember that the Choicepoint voter purge was purposely
ignored by both the Florida democrats and national ones. Gore made choices. He chose wrongly. Politics is sometimes about instincts.
His was to defer to the ruling class of which he is a member. I'm sure he thought to himself, like the media pundits did, " After all how different would life be under a Republican president? , Reagan wasn't that bad. " Gore was a conservative Democrat ( and never a real friend to non white non straight or non men, those of us in any of these categories voted for him anyway) He sided with these folks over his own boss, Clinton. His running mate and a few other top Dems
were ready to concede immediately.

And further, how any one can be surprised by the tactics and tenacity of the Republicans in November and December 2000 is beyond me.
The party of Gingrich, Helms, DeLay, Gramm, James Baker, the October Surprise, Iran Contra and most importantly the Arkansas Project (which SUCCEEEDED! Clinton was impeached and nearly was turned out) surprised NOONE who had eyes to see in the last 15
years. Similarly, the party who controlled Congress and gave Reagan what he wanted (with his best bud Tip O'Neill leading the way),
who didn't try hard enough to impeach the criminal Reagan, who brays at the idiot irrelevancy that is Nader (whining like losers, unlike
Repugs who did NOT do the same re the insane fool Perot), who then did not unite defeat the Ashcroft's confirmation (a racist who
lost to a dead man and spent years trying to block implementaion of the Brown v Kansas decision.), who confirmed Whitman unanimously (not ONE senator was troubled by her own racist defense of and participation in(!) racial profiling not to mention her far
from impressive record in New Jersey, and why was she let off the hook for hiring illegals ?), and finally the party who let Bush have his tax cuts, war, and continuing assault on families' livlihoods. Gore is a weenie as is Kerry if they really can't see what kind of people they are dealing with. A colleague like Inhofe joking about federal workers playing hookey after the OKC bombing is NOT honourable. Nor are any kind of bigot. But again after 8 years of unrelenting attempts to unseat an elected POPULAR president, you'd think they might have had a clue. Again, instincts. Bush's mendacity, ignorance, and truculence are apparent to most of the world.