" If they tried to pull off "a theft of their own"? (which is actually what they were doing in 2000, and calling it the other guy's theft) the entire COUNTRY would laugh at them. THey would NEVER get away with it."
I don't think the "entire country" would laugh at them. There are some Dumbocrats that actually believe Bush stole the election and will never be convinced otherwise.
I am well aware that there are some Dumbocrats who believe Bush stole the electin---that was part of the point I was making, that that much-repeated BIG LIE served as the cornerstone for all that followed in the partisan "doesn't matter WHAT he does, we hate him" assault on Bush.........
My point was that if they tried it again, with the same "rigged voting machine/ hanging chad/ intimidated-excluded black voters mantras they pulled out last time, it would NOT go over well at all---even some of their own would jump ship, as they did, say, when all the Lib SCOTUS Judges came out for Eminent Domain. I have had MANY extremely frustrating arguments with RELATIVES who are "convinced" that the election was stolen in 2000, but how much of that clamor do you remember them reviving in 2004? The answer is : VERY LITTLE, because all they HAD to revive was the contention that it happened in 2000 , in order to de-legitimize Bush's winning of the election over Kerry.