Bush won Gore lost get over it

[Rambis]

Anyone want to take that one on? It was a Des Moines register letter to the editor last Sunday.

Here it is...
Richard Doak's Nov. 18 musings about Register presidential endorsements perpetuates the most prevalent modern myth - that the Supreme Court decided the 2000 presidential election ("A Peek at Endorsements"). The Supreme Court was well within its rights to decide as it did given the facts laid before it, and independent studies have since shown that President Bush would have been declared the winner in Florida even if the disputed recount had happened.


Why is it then that "progressives" find this lie so appealing that they repeat it again and again? Does Doak think that President Gore would not have had to face terrorist attacks? I suppose Gore was more fit to manage the ship of state, seeing as how he had just managed a campaign that frittered away a supposedly slam-dunk election.

Whatever the reason for keeping the lie alive, Doak takes the coward's route by disowning the endorsement of Bush as the Republican candidate. That President Bush has turned out to be a disaster belies his performance as a candidate; he was affable, convincing and demonstrated an ability to lead. Doak should own what he said, instead of doing some soft-shoe backpedal given the benefit of hindsight.

It's time for the lie to die, Mr. Doak. Bush won, Gore lost.

[pstans]

1. Talk about living in the past

It is pretty said if that is the only positive thing they can say about Bush.

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2. Didn't Gore trail the whole year in the election and

only overtake bush in the last days of the campaign? How was it a slam dunk?

[rurallib]

3. "it is not who votes that counts, it is who counts the votes"

Pretty well sums up the Repub view on elections

[Rambis]

4. The kicker is Gore won by 500,000 votes

and we have a constitutional crisis (Justices threatening resign)that is still going on.

"Souter seriously considered resigning. For many months, it was not at all clear whether he would remain as a justice," Toobin writes. "At the urging of a handful of close friends, he decided to stay on, but his attitude toward the court was never the same. There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept."



http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-09-07-3904695772_x.htm