Reply #48: This writer can't even think straight.

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"And they did not appear to have pondered Judge Richard Posner's sensible observation, much less themselves sensibly observe, that while indeed it was strange to have the U.S. Supreme Court decide a presidential election, it would have been even stranger for the election to have been decided by the Florida Supreme Court."

The Florida Supreme Court would not have decided the election. Counting the ballots in Florida would have decided it.

BTW, I doubt very much LBJ or Nixon enjoyed inflicting torture, pain, death. Wanton Boy's eyes gleam when he talks about killing. He displays eerie, hellish smiles. And that's only one of the reasons why I hate him.