[Liz]

The Gore people were hopelessly out-lawyered, so says the Washington Times' Bill Sammon's book, which recounted the court fight that ensued.

[satchmodog9]

Eat that, Al.

[Graybeard58]

The Gore people were hopelessly out-lawyered

Plus the fact that they were dead wrong.

[fml]

What did you expect us to do? Turn the case down because it wasn't important enough?"

giggle

[Publius6961]

The Gore people were hopelessly out-lawyered, so says the Washington Times' Bill Sammon's book, which recounted the court fight that ensued.

Are you suggesting that the results were determined by "lawyering" rather than by the facts?

[Ninian Dryhope]

"The election was dragged into the courts by the Gore people."

And they dang near stole it too. Thank heaven for that great Texan, James Baker, whose Baker Institute is an integral part of Rice University.

[chiller]

As I remember, it should have been the Florida State legislators who stepped up - according to Florida law - to resolve the issue. They chickened of course, probably fearing the never used provision would be made to look like tampering.

It didn't need to go to court, but once it did there was no stopping it.

[Wolverine]

How dare Al Gore disgrace this nation

Outrage of the Week (07/30/99): Gore ‘Up A Creek'
Vice President Al Gore's Presidential campaign, already drowning in the polls, was forced to deal with a flood of bad press this week following another public relation blunder.  When Vice President Al Gore visited New Hampshire last week for a four-mile photo-op of him paddling along the Connecticut River, he needed a little help staying afloat.  The Washington Times reported that nearly four billion gallons of water were released from a nearby dam before Gore's publicity stunt to ensure that Gore's canoe wouldn't hit or scratch bottom during his environmental photo-op.  The release of the water --which raised the water level eight to ten inches -- irritated John Kassel, Director of the Vermont Department of Natural Resources.  "They won't release the water for the fish when we ask them to, but somehow they find themselves able to release it for a politician," said Kassel.  "The only reason they did this was to make sure the Vice President's canoe didn't get stuck."  Remember that next time al Gore gives a speech bemoaning the squandering of our natural resources.

[bigeasy_70118]

I saw Justice Scalia speak about four years ago. There was a Q&A period at the end of Justice's excellent speech. This liberal undergrad gets up and in a condescending way asks "Why don't you explain to us non-lawyers, why you stole the election from Al Gore?".

Scalia replies, "No, I won't".

Hilarious.

Although I wished the question had been asked in a more intelligent and respectful way, so Scalia would have answered it.

[Semper Paratus]

James Baker was the architect of the President-elect recount victory.

While the Gore team banked on the Florida Judiciary to jury-rig a vote recount, Baker correctly saw a one-man-one-vote issue and went straight to Federal Court.

[apackof2]

[jokar]

ping,
That is definitely going to leave a mark. Our esteemed Congressman was there, and can testify to the courts of history, that sore/loserman was looking to steal the election.
As to the rest of the gallery here at FreeRepublic, we watched in anger and horror as the demonrat weasels rolled out a plan to obfuscate the outcome in Florida in an effort to steamroll the republican party and the American people into turning over the the presidency to gore.

[Wuli]

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.

[BenLurkin]

"The election was dragged into the courts by the Gore people."

Scalia should know by now that the truth must never be told about the lefties. They will accuse him of hate speech.

[proudpapa]

Ahhh yes. The election of 2000.

The first and last time democratic hypocrites have argued for State Rights!

[AppyPappy]

I heard that several big lawyers "were too busy" to work on the case because they thought it was a loser and a boondoggle.

[CyberAnt]

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.

[Brian Allen]

<< The Gore people were hopelessly out-lawyered ... >>

And their position hopelessly fraudulent.

Hopelessly.

Fraudulent.

Hopelessly fraudulent.

Even for second generation lying looting treasonous racketeer, dangerous dullard and willing member of the Blly-Bubba-Blythe Crime Family: Underdon Al-Fredo Gore-leone.

[Trajan88]

Folks, I was in Morocco in November '00 and all I had was CNN World... from that far off land it appeared the Republicans were being out-lawyered by the Dims.

I kept yelling at tv... why are not the Republicans doing a thing to answer the bell.

Once I steped back on U.S. soil in late November - I found out that CNN was skewing the reporting... I/we all know why.

Al Gore/David Boise (spelling?)/yard gnome William Christopher... don't go away mad... just go away.

[GSWarrior]

Doesn't matter. People who want to believe that Bush stole Florida will deny any and all evidence to the contrary.

[BunnySlippers]

Remind me: O'Connor voted to end the recount, right?