Gore Aide Says DUI Story Cost Bush The Popular Vote!

Newsmax.com

[vbmoneyspender]

Instead, "Beer-gate," as the media dubbed the Bush DWI story, caused Bush's slim nationwide lead to evaporate overnight and precipitated the 37-day Florida recount fiasco that still has Democrats grousing Gore was robbed.

I wonder if Gore and his supporters are Sacramento Kings' fans?

[jocko12]

GORE YOU LOST ANY WAY!!!!

[willyone]

The big question is why did Bush and his handlers not disclose the DUI arrest during the campaign. Surely they know that unless you are a Dem. there are no secrets. I do not believe that Bush has picked the brightest lights as his close advisors.

[UncleJeff]

Worth asking why they lied about it until the records were released.

[nutmeg]

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[Timesink]

There was a poll done by somebody - can't remember who - immediately after Election Day that got buried underneath all the Florida coverage. It showed quite clearly that the Beergate leak sent several percentage points' worth of "undecideds" over to the Gore column. It's because of that poll that I give liberals no room to even ATTEMPT to argue that "Bush stole the election." As far as I'm concerned, even if Bush HAD stolen it (which of course he did not), the absolutely evil tactics of the Gore team meant all the rules would have given him carte blanche to do so. Once the Gore people intentionally leaked that information, the gloves were off and it became total war.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Actual title: Chris Lehane: DWI Story Cost Bush Popular Vote

[MS.BEHAVIN]

I don't know what he's up to, but I'll find out!

Do you remember "Duckbill" Connolly crying on the news, that people were leaving nasty messages on his machine and so on? Wah!

On the news broadcast, someone flipped him off and yelled obscene remarks on camera! Priceless!

[RDangerfield]

Uncle Jeff: Worth asking why they lied about it until the records were released.

Good point. Another thing that is weird. Who was the dim bulb on Bush's staff who changed Bush's driver's license number in order to cover up the conviction? One of Karl Rove's crew or Karen's?
--Raoul

[Exigence]

Lehane's comments underscored the importance of the all-but-forgotten DWI story, which many suspected was a Democrat dirty trick designed to throw Bush off balance during the final days of the campaign.

Only idiots -- and the mainstream press -- "suspect" this was a Dem dirty trick. The rest of us *know* it was.

[jeremiah]

If Nevadans had not been lied to about the transportation and storage of Nuclear wastes by candidate Bush, Nevada possibly would have gone Gore, GW would have lost. He lied when he said science would decide the fate of Nuclear wastes, not politics. Well the stuff is going to Nevada, with no change in the science, he will not win Nevada again. I don't know what difference it will make in 04, but it will make some.

[wai-ming]

If the DUI cost Bush the "popular vote," then he (Bush) would have won the popular vote if the Dems hadn't "leaked" that information the week before the election.

So they expect us to believe that the DUI revelation was what "defeated" George W. Bush?

Are the American people that stupid? They chose Clinton, who "raped" a woman 14 years before his election, and continued to harrass women and lie about it thereafter. But they didn't chose Bush, who had a DUI 24 years prior to his election, and has subsequently changed his ways.

Algore wants us to believe that by "exposing" Bush's record of bad behavior, he (Algore) "won" the popular vote. Even though Clinton was elected by hiding his own (in my opinion, much worse) criminal acts.

This tells us more about Algore, the Democrats and their tactics than it does about President Bush.

[Texasforever]

Well the stuff is going to Nevada, with no change in the science, he will not win Nevada again. I don't know what difference it will make in 04, but it will make some.

Nevada is the perfect location. Hell half the state is already radioactive and the other half is just the nation's red light district.

[snag_matic]

And probably cost Republican senate seats in Washington and Michigan.

[UncleJeff]

If it had been an untrue "smear" I could understand why it was a "dirty trick", but it was true and Bush's people lied about it and tried to cover it up. How is that algore's fault??

[Exigence]

Bush's people lied about it and tried to cover it up

Lied about it? Tried to cover it up? Those are pretty harsh accusations for what looks like something that just wasn't mentioned -- a far cry from lying and cover up. Unless of course you're a Dem or a liberal journalist or Hillary Clinton...

Give me a break! It was twenty four years ago and in a court record that, if I remember correctly, was accessed inappropriately or leaked inappropriately by someone with an AGENDA.

Besides, the dirty trick was the timing. Someone with an honest concern would have tossed the question out in the beginning, not during one of the few remaining news cycles at the end of a campaign. That made is nothing more than a dirty politically motivated trick.