08-07-2015, 08:21 PM
Joseph McBride Wrote:Yes, and a Florida legislature leader was prepared
to throw the state electoral votes to Bush no matter
what the courts decided. That would have caused
more chaos.
This is a very important point. If I recall, the leader of the legislature, the lower house was one Tom Feeney, who some think was actually in on the the rigging of the future electronic machines in Florida. And Feeney collaborated with Gov. Bush on what Joe is talking about. (See Nichols, p. 187)
But see, IMO, the election was stolen way beforehand by Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris and her assistant Clayton Roberts who fleeced the election eligible lists months before the election so that many people of color who were able to vote could not. Greg Palast wrote an excellent essay on this in his book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. A really fine piece of investigative journalism. The best overall summary on the subject I think is Jews for Buchanan by John Nichols.
Gore didn't really roll over. He fought it every step of the way and took it, pretty much, as far as he could. And there is no doubt that he would have been a better president than Bush 2.
IMO, Bush 2 was never elected, not in 2000 and not in 2004. In 2004, I think Kerry did really roll over. In fact, when Kerry asked Edwards to run as his VP, Edwards told Kerry that he would accept only on one condition: if the same thing happened in 2004 as occurred in 2000, they would fight it all the way.
Well, the same thing did happen, except this time in Ohio. And Kerry did about zero.
America is a truly lawless state. And, IMO, it started in 1963-64 with the Warren Commission. Its called Friendly Fascism.