The truth so easily ignored is that Gore attempted to steal the election, but was caught.

Get ready to hear all of this again, in November. The Dems are incapable of loosing graciously. They claim to want democracy, but will do anything for their guy to win.

snicker!

It is appalling that those with a paucity of knowledge in the areas of law and politics can assert as factual that:

Bush is indeed our first illegitimate president. He was put into office by his party members on the US Supreme Court. That my friends is history.
Posted by ken at October 23, 2004 02:28

ken, it is all too easy to pull something out of your anal orifice and act professorial about it. Your partisan shillmanship is laughable.

Frankly, I think the electoral system is preferable to a pure popular vote. We conduct elections over a large geographic area. Weather conditions can vary with location and can effect turnout. The electoral system normalizes a state's vote to their population. Another reason is that the presidential election is not the only item for vote on a ballot. Other elections or ballot measures in a given state can effect the turnout for that state. The electoral system normalizes the vote to eliminate the issue of turn out variation.

Of all the memes in regarding the Fla. Election this one really bothers me. Look, this is true, overseas military ballots are never postmarked. I concede that point, but Florida explicitly forbid counting absentee ballots without out a postmark. There was no provision or exception for overseas military ballots.

Now whine all you want about this but trying to make the case that they should have been counted is changing the law after the ballots were cast. There is now way around that fact and arguing that it’s unfair or other such non-sense is monumentally hypocritical when that is what you all were accusing Gore of doing.

Also the meme that Gore was cherry picking counties, again Florida law explicitly stated that the candidates could ask for recounts for any individual counties they wanted. Bush Filed suit to stop Gore from doing what Florida law explicitly allowed him to do. Again it was Bush, not Gore, who was trying to change the law after the ballots had been cast by preventing Gore from following state law. Ironically had Bush allowed Gore to count the votes in those three counties, Bush would have won despite Gores efforts.

I’m not one of these who talk about a stolen election, there was no way Bush would have lost Florida’s EC votes for a number of reasons none of which were illegal but let’s just get the facts straight and cut out the spin will you.

Should it be pointed out here that we are a representitive REPUBLIC?

This is a non sequitur. It may be the case that the electoral system is a bad idea. It's certainly undemocratic--although no more so than the U.S. Senate, which gives Alaska the same two votes as California. But Bush won by the rules as established in 1789 and followed in every subsequent election.

After being in power for three years, do you really think he has not been figuring out the ins and outs of ways to manipulate the system. These guys fight a election like a war, but they have some success at elections.

It will take an act of God for Kerry to win.

Go back and check out Matt's comment on West Virginia shenanigans.

Then, read OTB's post on manufacturing claims of a stolen election. James links to Jonah Goldberg, who rightly points out that both side...