NBC's Andrea Mitchell claims Supreme Court "denied Gore the Presidency."

NBC Nightly News | 12/09/04 | Andrea Mitchell

[Timmy]

On NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw earlier this evening, during the story about Gore's endorsement of Dean, Andrea Mitchell referred to the Supreme Court's decision "which denied Gore the Presidency."

[StarFan]

GORE DIDN'T WIN ANDREA MITCHELL!!!! Of course not but tell that to Howard Dean, John Kerry, Terry McAwful, Bill Xlintoon and Chris Matthews who continue with this lie. I just wrote to Andrea reminding her that an independent audit was conducted in Florida by the media and they determined GWB received more votes. I also added that the story was probably buried on page 24 of newspaper and her network did not see fit to report it so that might explain her ignorance.

[bdeaner]

You gotta be @#&*ing kidding.

[Dr. Frank fan]

The implication is that the Presidency would have been Gore's had the Republicans not taken the actions that they did (preventing the dems from stealing the election).

I believe that's true. I believe the Presidency would have been Gore's had the Florida Supreme Court's unconstitutional decision been allowed to stand.

It smacks of sour grapes and incessant whinning.

True. :)

[Dr. Frank fan]

The accurate statement would have been "denied Gore the opportunity to keep recounting in various fashions until he finally came up with one which give him the Presidency."

Agreed.

[Dr. Frank fan]

To decline to grant or allow; refuse

This seems to be the operative definition; the U.S. Supreme Court refused to let the Florida Supreme Court's unconsitutional ruling, and attempt to steal the election for Gore, stand. Thanks.

[Holly_P]

Occasionally SCOTUS does it right.

I love it when the U.S. Supremes smack lower liberal courts.

Twice in the Florida debacle and I recently read that the 9th circuit is overturned a full 75% of the time.

[Paul Atreides]

Oh, I know. Let them stew in their own cesspool of hatred. I still like telling the losers to move on, though.

[chainsaw]

At no time did gore ever receive more votes in florida than GW Bush. Gore conceeded and got together with that Daly character from Chicago, and decided to try to steal the election. The military vote was never counted, and Gore still lost. Gore lost both legal counts and then lost a couple of illegal counts even with all the criminal SCHANIGANS. The democrats are a bunch of pathetic losers.

[txhurl]

Yet we never see a meglith overturned.

[BluH2o]

The rejoinder that almost always shuts these dunderhead liberals up, when it comes to the Supreme Court gave Bush the presidency argument ... if Al Gore had won his home state of Tennessee, Florida would not have been an issue. Those who knew him best, the population of Tennessee, didn't vote for the stiff ... Gore's a loser.

[Paul Atreides]

I know I'm stating the obvious, but that entire punched-the-wrong-chad fiasco was entirely manufactured. Who goes home and says "I think I accidentally voted for X."? Especially, after the entire ballot was tested, months in advance.

[StarFan]

God Bless You. This article will develop the longest legs you've ever seen.

Howlin, Backhoe -- disregard my freepmail as I just got the info.(see #39)

[Holly_P]

Yet we never see a meglith overturned.

I've decided to get out of the megalith business and am now "into" dolmens full time.

[Jim Noble]

The Supreme Court has no-zero, zip, zilch, nada-authority over the appointment of electors for President and Vice-President, which is a function of state legislatures.

The attempted usurpation of authority by the Florida Supreme Court was not unconstitutional-it was extraconstitutional.

The correct solution was for the Florida Legislature to appoint electors and so certify to the President of the Senate, as directed by the Eleventh Amendment.

Since the House in January 2001 had a majority of states with majority Republican delegations, and since the Senate was organized by the Republicans, George Bush would have been legally and constitutionally elected President without further enlarging the already too large powers of the Supreme Court, which is not and was never intendd to be an electoral tribunal.

[Let's Roll]

The dims are just too dim to realize that this everlasting carping about Gore being robbed only reminds the highly sought after middle of what a close call we had in late 2000 and where our country would be today if Gore had prevailed.

The middle repeatedly hears "Bush stole the election" and their reaction is a heartfelt "Thank God!"

Dims, you are assuming that the rest of the country is as outraged as you are while all it feels is gratitude. Can't you find some other non-issue to beat into the ground?

[Holly_P]

the already too large powers of the Supreme Court, which is not and was never intendd to be an electoral tribunal

It was my understanding that all the U.S. Supreme did was to, in effect, tell the Florida Supreme to stay out of the legislating business, by telling them they could not over rule the Florida legislature.

I'm not trying to start an argument with you and am ready to admit that I could be wrong.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Well, the democrats were supposed to take their revenge by defeating Jeb! in the Florida election....Jeb! won by almost 20 points...

[Jim Noble]

Had SCOTUS not ruled the way they did, then the Democrats would have succesfully stolen the election from Bush.

Do you mean that, when the Congress assembled in joint session on January 6, 2001 to count the electoral votes that the Republican majority would have counted the illegally and extraconstitutionally appointed Gore electors from Florida, instead of the alternative slate of Bush electors which surely would have been appointed (legally and constitutionally) by the Florida Legislature?

Why on earth do you think they would have done that?

And why is the expansion of Supreme Court power into something which is supposed to be handled by the People in Congress assembled a good thing?

There is zero-ZERO-chance that Gore would have been President if the post-electoral process had followed the Eleventh Amendment as clarified by the Electoral Vote Counting Act of 1877.

[Paul Atreides]

Remember, when Albore was campaigning for Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, and his speech consisted of telling people to vote for her, as revenge for 2000? As I recall, she lost.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Tennessee denied Gore the Presidency.