It was hysterical when all the Dim ladies with blue hair drove to the polls in their $50,000 Mercedes.
They whined about Floriduh voting machines, and said they "accidentally" voted for Pat Buchanan instead of Gore.
Posted on 11/22/2005 5:45:52 AM PST by Liz
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the high court did not inject itself into the 2000 presidential election.
.......Scalia said: "The election was dragged into the courts by the Gore people. We did not go looking for trouble." .........the court had to take the case.
"The issue was whether Florida's Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court [would decide the election.] What did you expect us to do? Turn the case down because it wasn't important enough?"
(Scalia) contended there would have been a difficult transition had the court not stepped in....... (and that) studies by news organizations.....showed Bush still would have won a Florida recount
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Look at the first picture of Gore in post #15.
That's a "rotary" phone on the table behind him.
That's real high tech, Al. Is that the phone you used to invent the internet?
A smart lawyer's lawyering will be much more proficient when he is lawyering with the facts on his side. Gore was outlawyered.
Remember; they did that, too.
Crooked Dims were prepared to count, recount, and re-recount until they had the numbers they needed to win-----old Dumbo technique started by a company in Chicago called the "Daley Family Vote Mfg Co."
Even if it takes all night, The Daley Co comes up with the votes---even if the number of votes found exceeds the number of registered voters in a particular precinct.
Gore was wrong on all counts.
Gore was vote shopping and when the legal procedures did not result in the votes he was shopping for, he conned the Florida courts into going along with changing the game after the votes were cast, and when that didn't work he asked for more rule/law changes.
Gore never sought a complete and total manual recount of the whole state and under the laws and conditions that applied to such a recount when the votes were cast. Why?
Gore was shopping for votes. He was not interested in what changes a total state manual recount might obtain in majority Republican counties. His original challenges were all in majority Democrat counties where he hoped his vote shopping there could be used to adjust the state totals. The Republicans saw it for what is was from the beginning - a vote shopping expedition.
SCOTUS rightly ended the Florida courts' judicial intervention on the side of Gore, and his little expedition.
The tragedy for the country is that Gore, true to his liberal Democrat roots, cared more about obtaining power than doing what was right for the country.
Nixon - with more legitimate right in 1960 than Gore ever had in 2000 - could have challenged the election results in Illinois; and his friends and allies suggested he make that challenge. He chose not to, telling his friends that no matter what the outcome of such a challenge brought, neither he nor Kennedy would win because the political process of the challenge would leave the "victorious" President and the nation badly crippled in the process. At that point in time, Nixon was a statesman. Gore was a power hungry ass.
It was hysterical when all the Dim ladies with blue hair drove to the polls in their $50,000 Mercedes.
They whined about Floriduh voting machines, and said they "accidentally" voted for Pat Buchanan instead of Gore.
And the Florida Supreme Court would have stopped the re-count as soon as Gore pulled ahead.
I'll never forget the sinking feeling I had during the last recount ordered by the FSC as W's lead kept shrinking.
"Stop the count"-----the words of the USSC that fateful night that effectively ended Dim's duplicity----will never be forgotten.
We knew they wpould recount until they got the answer they wanted. Didnt they prove that in Washington State?
Scalia should know by now that the truth must never be told about the lefties. They will accuse him of hate speech.
The lefties scam is old news.
Goes something like this: they establish their bona fides by proclaiming they are very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, "tolerant and compassionate."
Once that's out of the way, they have a free pass to commit every crime in the book.
All they have to do when caught in the act, is drag out their "tolerance and compassion."
Works every time.
It didn't need to go to court, but once it did there was no stopping it.
Basically SCOTUS said that if the same situation arose again, they would not take the case because in fact it was up to the legislature of Florida to do it.The legislature should have assembled, called Secretary of State Harris to testify before it, and then named the Bush slate of electors.
Actually, she had - pursuant to the law - already named them; the legislature should have simply closed out the time for the SCoFla to hear challenges and mandate recounts.
And, lest we forget, the "objective journalists," broadcasting under license from the FCC, tampered with the vote as surely as if they had campaigned for Gore within the polling places of the Florida Panhandle - costing Bush thousands of votes.
There is noting unusual or out of line for a legislature to name a state's Electors. In the first few Presidential Elections, that was the usual way of doing it. And the Constitution permits that latitude to the state legislatures.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "What If the French Had Pulled a 'Murtha' in 1781?"
Amen to that! The Velvet Hammer saved the day.
and it appeared to me that Kerry went to school on the 2000 election and came away with the same terrible attitude as Gore... his refusal to concede and allow the President his night was nothing, if not mean-spirited.
I heard that several big lawyers "were too busy" to work on the case because they thought it was a loser and a boondoggle.
Yes, Bill did say that.
Sammon's book, "At Any Cost; How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election".
This is a great book and everybody should read it before the 2006 election. They're using the same playbook and reading this will give people a heads up on what to expect.
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