Ad HOMINEM, you lingually challenged twit. It's spelled H-O-M-I-N-E-M. You could at least do yourself the favor of seeing how the word is spelled by looking at the times First and I have used it. Maybe you could even look it up.Oh, and BTW, that was not an attack intended to prove a logical point or anything like that. Just an expression of frustration. 
"Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle just can't match House Majority Whip Tom DeLay in the partisan-vengeance department."
I'd like to see his examples for this, but... hey, he didn't give any! I wonder why?
"If Bush wins, blacks and other minorities will feel aggrieved and turn out even stronger in the future, consolidating their demographic gains and seriously hurting Republicans for years to come."
And I thought liberals didn't stereotype people. Exactly why would minorities do that? BECAUSE they're minorities? I think not. It'll be more likely that they'll judge Bush on what he does and what effect it has once he's in office, and since tax cuts nearly by definition are good for the economy, chances are these minorities are going to be better off after the Bush admin. It's just a question of whether they see it.
And what of the Cuban refugee community? They're a minority, right? And yet they didn't support Gore. Funny thing, stereotyping: there're always numerous exceptions.
"boycotts of the inaguaration by GOP diginitaries that would almost certainly backfire on the delegitmatizers."
Funny, I think I've heard this before somewhere...
*thinks*
Oh, yes! They said the exact same thing durning the Clinton trial! Looks like they were wrong then, too, huh?
"What began as an effort to delegitimize Bill Clinton as early as 1993"
There was no such effort. No one tried to "delegitimize" Clinton. He was, sadly, president, and no one denied it.
And no, that quote from the Republicans is NOT an effort to delegitimize. It can be taken any number of ways.
"If conservative gadfly Larry Klayman could examine Palm Beach ballots last week, how long will it take a liberal gadfly to examine the 10,000 undercounted Miami-Dade ballots next year?"
But did you hear about the results of that man's examination? He found ballots with TAPE on them, holding chads in place! These ballots have been tampered with during the hand counts, thus rendering said counts unreliable. Simple as that.
As for your so-called "undervote", why dinna you go find out exactly what you're talking about? Those ballots WERE counted. Twice. They were determined not to contain a vote for president. If someone counted these ballots by hand, it'd be far easier for them to create new votes like they've been doing. See, that's why we had that deadline the court rewrote: to prevent tampering with the ballots. If some liberal watchdog group counted the ballots and found Gore won, no one would believe them. There'd be no way for the group to prove that they did not actively create the votes they found.
"If Bush is elected and it's proved on a hand count that Gore actually carried Florida, what will the country say? 'Ooops' isn't going to cut it."
As said above, you couldn't prove anything. The most reliable count is the machine count, and Bush won both of those.
"Now extend that trend to the rest of the country, with new voting machines (a sure bet) that don't disproportionately stymie minority ballots, as punch cards do."
I'd love to know how he figures this, too. But, hey! Again, no evidence. Just an unsubstantiated claim.
"Jess Jackson's outrage isn't enough to change the election, but it will almost certainly change the next one."
Yeah, the more people he lies to, the more people he encourages to act as irrationally as he does, the greater chance that Hillary'll win in '04. Can't argue with that.
"What they don't get is that Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Cheney's calls for 'diversity' in the cabinet (which must make Lynne Cheney, high priestess of the anti-political-correctness crowd, bust a gut) "
Another funny thing. This person assumes that if you're against PC, then you must also be racist. But then, all Republicans are racist, aren't they?
"If Florida had not been among those few states that bar anyone with a felony conviction from voting, Gore would have won comfortably."
Oh, I can't imagine why a criminal would support Al Gore. It's not like he's ever broken the law or anything. And none of his major backers are criminals, either.
"The GOP is angry that 445 such felons apparently voted anyway, mostly for Gore."
Again, can't imagine why they would be angry.
"It's not hard to imagine other Republican-controlled state legislatures moving aggressively to disenfranchise ex-cons; felons don't exactly have a powerful lobby."
Oh, yes, gotta let those rapists, pedophiles, and thieves vote, you know. They have rights, too.
Come on, if they had all the rights we do, why can we keep them in cells?
"This will likely ripen as an issue soon, with Bush (convicted of a misdemeanor DUI charge, not a felony) caught in the middle of old-fashioned race politics."
A) He wasn't convicted of anything. He was never on trial. He paid his fine that night, and went home.
B) It was expunged from his record, thus it wouldn't affect him, even if it was a felony.
C) It's only race politics because that's what the Democrats always turn it into.
D) I wonder which breaking campaign fundraising laws qualifies as: misdemeanor or felony?
"The best approach to ensuring legitimacy has been clear for weeks: a hand count in all of Florida's 67 counties."
Again, how do you figure? The democrats have shown they'll do anything to win, including steal the election by screwing with the ballots. Hand counts are unreliable. There are no standards, and there's no way to prevent the ballots from being tampered with. There's a reason we use machines for this.
"Bush, in turn, has never shown any awareness that winning by a margin of .00052% without counting all of the disputed ballots might pose a problem for his legitimacy."
If he won according to the law, he's legitimate. According to the law, he won. Therefore he is legitimate. Simple as that.
And again, all the ballots have been counted. They've all been run though the machines. Twice. Gore lost. Period.
Oh, wait. I take that back. Some ballots WEREN'T counted: the military ballots that Gore got disqualified. But I thought every vote counted?
"However agreeable and successful he turns out to be, the new president is doomed to be seen by many Americans as a bastard."
Every poll shows that a majority of Americans believe that Bush won the election, and will consider him legitimate when he's sworn in.
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