Chris Lehane: DWI Story Cost Bush Popular Vote

NewsMax.com ^ | Wednesday June 19, 2002; 12:19 p.m. EDT | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[marty60]

And just think, they wanted (evan Chr.) Gore and the Evil Dums to win. Islam would be well on it's way to controlling the world. Algore and the evil Dums would be holding memorial services to this day . Not flushing the rats from their caves.

[5by5]

Ditto. But somehow it's improtant to the reality-benders.

I like to hit them with the analogy of the World Series. Best of seven. One team wins the first game by 10 runs but looses the next four games by one. Who wins?

The popular vote is like the total number of runs in the World Series. And just as relevant to the final outcome.

[painter]

"This fits with the theory I have. The DWI story probably was as big a factor as the number of evangelical Christians who may have sat 2000 out."

According to RNC polls over 4 million Evangelical Christians DID stay home on election day.

[Nonstatist]

In fact he was arrested THREE times: The first arrest of George W. Bush was for theft at a hotel. The second arrest was for disorderly conduct at a football game. The third arrest -- a fairly serious crime -- drunk driving.

The third arrest was not a "serious " crime in 1968; people were almost routinely pulled over and given a warning and sent on their way in those days, especially for .12 alchohol blood level.

The other two "arrests" were college pranks. All the brouhahah that accompanied Bush and the relentless, hypocritical leftist attacks on him will have no potency this time around, will they? And the fact that Gore was an adult pot smoker, and his kids had all this "trouble" with the law, had little impact because some of it was old news and he was well known.... Lefties will have to come up with something else this time.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Chris Lehane is a little puke.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

The reason President Bush "lost" the popular vote is that the dead and illegal and prison vote and the multiple votes were counted while military votes and regular ordinary taxpayer votes were not counted at all or only once (the "old fashioned honest" way to do it).

MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD IS WHY THE ELECTION WAS EVEN CLOSE!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

(Just wanted to ping some people over here)

Your post #28 is brilliant. Bookmarked. Kept.

We should all be keeping a database full of "facts" as you have provided - and others do so well.

IF A DEMONCREEP IS TALKING, THEY ARE LYING!

And, by the way - Hillary now has billboards!

I WANT BILLBOARDS!!!! HOW CAN WE UNITE TO PUT SOME UP?

[mwl1]

There is no question that the DWI story was deliberately timed and executed. It ruptured the Bush momentum completely. The Bush people should never have allowed this story to surface at the end and reflected absolute incompetence.

This issue could have been disposed of months before with candidate Bush getting in front of this issue, admitting all to some high school students at a school assembly.

[mwl1]

There is no question that the DWI story was deliberately timed and executed. It ruptured the Bush momentum completely. The Bush people should never have allowed this story to surface at the end and reflected absolute incompetence.

This issue could have been disposed of months before with candidate Bush getting in front of this issue, admitting all to some high school students at a school assembly.

[truthkeeper]

That, and the voting fraud.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Hmmmmmm...the released 'DWI' story didn't help Gore win his home state of Tennessee and its electoral votes. The electoral votes that would have made the Florida 'taint' moot.

Guess Tennesseans did know Al best.

[Nonstatist]

And in the 1920's lynching was not a serious crime either. The people are still victims of murder. They are no less dead.

Oh yea? And this is related to cost of coconauts in what way?.. Sounds like polemic revisionism to me.. The current hysteria and hyperbole about drunk driving did NOT exist in 1976; take it or leave it, I'm not defending it or deriding it, but it's a fact. Bringing it up and putting your subjective and biased spin on it (a .12 blood level and driving too slow) is dishonest.

And like I said, Bush is now "known", so this character assasination regarding his "drunkeness" and "arrest record" has no currency , even among the under-educated and amnesiac polity of the masses.

[aruanan]

AND a moron. If a twenty+ year old DWI story had this effect, is he saying that if it hadn't been for all the stories about Gore's intellectual retardation and Clinton's adultery and other crimes, Clinton/Gore would have been elected G-d by 110% of the voting public?

[mwl1]

The DWI may not have hurt Bush in Tennessee, but it hurt tremendously everywhere else. It wrecked the momentum going into the final weekend, and it gave undecideds a reason to vote for the incumbent (Gore), which is very unusual.

[olliemb]

Didn't Lehane's sister work for someone there in Maine? I think I remember something happening there.

[olliemb]

Explain to me why the libertarians would rather have democrats in the congress than conservative Republicans? I think that if they are for no government or no taxes ,etc. that the Republican party would be the party closest to their views and not the democratic party.

[Coop]

As discussed at the time, it and the network's early calls. The vote fraud by the Rats also padded some numbers as well. As to the DWI, it was the presshole's "why didn't W tell us, can he be trusted?" mantra for 4 days. In short, they raised a Clinton question as to W's honesty and it almost worked. Zogby picked the 2-1 break for Gore by undecideds, hence his accuracy. Too dang close for comfort, IMHO....

This wouldn't have even been an issue if Karl Rove and friends hadn't stupidly decided they could keep that story under wraps. Geez, it actually would have fit in perfectly with Dubya's bio. He had a drinking problem, as evidenced by a DWI in '76, and he quit drinking for good at age 40 and turned his life around.