He stopped it because who would be blamed for it? Gore.
Have you seen the number of inflammatory, hate-filled, Hitlerian speeches the dipwad has given?
I guess I was remiss in not making the point.. first, I am not a Gore fan. Gore's daughter revealed facts that the Democrats planned to start race riots.
I remember how racial violence was used in the 1960s. The violence was mostly man-made and the man was more often than not white and left of center. We all knew that but there was very little way to question the tactics. No Internet, no modern talk radio.
As for 2000, Gore would not have been blamed for the race riots. On the contrary. Bush was being set up to be accused of not responding to "the will of the people."
It was clear to me at the time -- at the time meaning November 2000 -- that race riots were on the agenda.
The press was blabbing about "the will of the people" -- the riots would have segued into demands for Bush to yield to Gore.
The press would start "reporting" that Bush should acknowledge "the will of the people" and stop the bloodshed and destruction. Gore got the most popular votes, let him be president. No doubt in my mind that was one of the Democrats' schemes. Probably Number One.
Gore stopped it.
IMO the quotes in Frum's column prove it. Thanks to a radio interview a couple of years ago I was able to have the host ask Frum about it; but he did not remember the 2002 column. He said he would check. I have no idea beyond that.