Where Were You: Seventh Anniversary Of Gore's Concession

12/12/07 | Vanity

[torchthemummy]

OK folks. It was seven years ago tonight that Gore finally gave up his unethical bid to reverse a Presidential election. I thought it would be interesting to mosey down memory lane to recall not just the concession but the 36 days of rancor preceding.

I'm hoping for the discussion to focus on the legal (and unethical) maneuvers by Gore and Co. during those 36 days as opposed to making judgements about Bush since the election. I'm confident that 99% of Freepers would still believe that Bush was better than any Gore Presidency.

[torchthemummy]

Reminder for any liberal that feels the Supreme Court ruled unjustly:

There would have been no 5-4 decision if there had not been a 7-2 decision.

[Graybeard58]

I really don’t remember where I was when I heard the news but I remember well the gut wrenching feeling I lived with for the 36 days prior, thinking this bastard is going to steal it with the collusion of the Florida legislature.

[DuncanWaring]

My recollection is of Petah Jennings nearly breaking into tears at the idea of al-Gore’s final concession.

[gathersnomoss]

Getting ready to kick the TV. AlGore, what a loon.

[gathersnomoss]

Didn’t Petah go back to Canada already?

[rintense]

I was on FR laughing my a$$ off with everyone else.

[KSCITYBOY]

He’s dead Jim!

[Mrs.Liberty]

ditto!

[Dog]

Rita Cosby almost gave me a heart attack...when she read the decision wrong.

[Domandred]

I don’t remember Gore’s concession all that much (think I was at work that day or something). But I remember earlier that day the reporters breathlessly running out of SCOTUS with decision in hand reporting while they were reading it because they didn’t even yet know what the decision was.

And I do love Libs that say that the Bush Supreme Court gave him the victory. How did that work anyways since Bush wasn’t in office yet (so it couldn’t have been his) and the Supreme Court was weighted heavily on the Lib side?

[traditional1]

I was either here on FR, typing my ass off, or on Liberal blogs watching BDS in its infancy and BLOOMING !

[G8 Diplomat]

I was 11 years old on December 12, 2000. I really don’t remember where I was when Gore conceded. I was probably hanging around the house somewhere while my parents had the news on...

[Para-Ord.45]

The kook socialist marxist left always forget it was

algore who launched the litigation and an activist

Florida Supreme court that wrote legislation from their

bench that hijacked the laws already in place by the State

itself.

[Graybeard58]

He went a lot farther than Canada.

[Nuc1]

I think it was the Fla. Supreme Court that was trying to throw the election to Gore. I thought the legislature, republican dominated, was pretty stand up though not strong enough. No matter what the dims did once Katherine Harris correctly called the vote for GWB, the election was over. The court drama was just window dressing.

[DuncanWaring]

In 2000? No. He died in 2005.

[angkor]

Myself and my wife and various dragalongs spent three weekends at DC's Observatory Circle telling Al Gore to "get out of Cheney's house."

[Always Right]

There would have been no 5-4 decision if there had not been a 7-2 decision.

And a 9-0 smackdown of the Florida Supreme Courts first ruling.

[Graybeard58]

I was 11 years old on December 12, 2000.

If you were a democrat you could have voted in that election.

[CounterCounterCulture]

We were having another one of our daily protests/rallies in San Jose, California. We had the radio on because we had heard he might be conceding that evening. T’was a great time with friends that day.