Tomorrow, it is conclusively proven that a partisan pollworker acting completely on his own stole several ballot boxes from heavily Democratic districts. When captured he has found to still have the ballot boxes in his posession, and the seals were still in place.
When opened and counted we find that their were 20,000 votes for Gore and 3,000 votes for Bush, giving Gore a clear victory.
Three questions:
Nothing, nothing, and nothing, as you undoubtedly know. Electoral college and all that.
Of course, that still wouldn’t change the fact that Bush should never have become President, which is the point of all the Democrats you are trying to bait.
Nos. 2 and 3 are easy. Too late. The Electoral College results were certified by Congress. Bush is President until 1/20/04.
No. 1, what should happen, is pretty much what should have been happening anyway and hasn’t. Bush should acknowledge that the people voted for a moderate policy course and should take it. It would be a nice public gesture for him to make a token offer of a very senior role for Gore in the Administration, but Gore wouldn’t take it and Bush would know that, so it doesn’t really matter.
Newer and Tougher voting laws are enacted. With more federal money allocated only to voting so that elections aren’t run as haphazardly.
Since Bush has already been certified President I don’t see anything else that should or could be done.
I’m not familiar enough with law to make any determination
Tougher security and Bush maybe moving a little more towards the center in recognition that in this scenario he won through nefarious acts that were probably unknown to him.
No, no, no. That’s what they did by electing Bush, silly. Under the hypothetical posited, the people would have voted for boredom, pomposity, and no particular policy course at all (except that which, at any particular moment, would have gratified “President” Gore’s insatiable appetite for self-promotion.
This is the sort of BS that is repeated by ignorant Bush supporters.
Gore had very detailed policy positions on every issue. Bush, on the other hand, avoided actually getting into the details of any issue like the plague. “I don’t believe that global warming is happening, can we move on?” Duh.
And as for Gore being boring, are you a complete idiot? Who cares if he is boring? What difference does it make? What, is the president supposed to entertain your sorry ass? He’s not supposed to be a fucking song and dance show, he is supposed to run the goddam country!
I just can’t understand how people can be so stupid as to vote for somebody based on how they like the person personally. The only important thing is the political consequence of your vote.
If you think having a likable dumbass in the White House is better than a competent bore, then you deserve said dumbass. Dumbass.
Bush’s war and his performance in it is going to define how much support he gets for his domestic policy. It’s too late for proof of a Gore victory to have any further effect on Bush’s legitimacy.
9/11 was a huge gift to Bush in that respect, from here on out that issue defines his Presidency and ultimately his success or failure as a president.
On the other hand, it would strongly bolser Gore’s re-election campaign efforts (assuming there ever is one)
Well, golly, I guess so. I mean you said it in your post. I’m “ignorant.” I’m “stupid.” I’m a "dumb ass.’ And my “ass” is “sorry.” From now on I’ll try sooner to agree with you about everything. P.S. I really admire your civility.
Your kneejerk whining about Dubya and how dumb, ignorant, stupid, etc. he is became tiresome a few sentences into your thread on why you “hate” him. Since you obviously have nothing constructive to add to this particular debate, perhaps you should stay out of it. Or (here’s a thought), go to the Pit and start a thread about how anyone who doesn’t hate Bush is stupid, ignorant, dumb, an idiot, and a dumbass. If anyone disagrees with you, just call them stupid, ignorant, dumb, an idiot, and a dumbass because, obviously, anyone who disagrees with you is all of those things.
As for the OP, ElvisL1ves hit the nail on the head.
The vote-stealing bastard should be publicly tarred, feathered and then set alight to run screaming through the streets until he keels over dead. His charred husk of a corpse should be thoroughly documented in color for posterity and giant posters of his demise should be posted at every polling place in America as a warning.
Dunno. Go ask a lawyer. Maybe give 'em the same treatment as the schlep in #1. After all we have a surplus of lawyers (sorry, Sua.)
Al Gore joins the NRA so he can form and arm the Tennesse militia, to storm 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They make it to Virginia before they get tired of listening to him say “lockbox” just one time too many and turn around and go home.
Are there any particular laws in Florida preventing the suspension of said precinct worker by rope from his testicles? Oh. Rather a pity, then.
Our Leader might not have the political capital to sustain his highly suspiscious attempt to keep Presidential papers locked up. I want to see them. For some reason, no doubt an utterly innocent one, he does not wish that so.
He might lack the clout to committ economic voodoo, doling out great wads of cash to the unneedy.
He might walk out the Oval Office and join Harry Krishna, and devote his life to annoying people in airports!
Best of all possibilities? Dick Cheney resigns, Colin Powell is appointed in his place, and Our Leader loses interest in finishing his term, rather like he lost interest in the Texas Air National Guard.
Yes, perhaps I will start a thread on the complete lunacy of basing your vote for president on who is the less boring candidate. Of course, that wouldn’t be very interesting, as only a complete moron would take the opposing side in that debate.
Or maybe I will start a thread on idiots who love to set up straw men, and knock them down, like the straw man “anybody you disagree with must be an idiot.” Yes, indeed.
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I’ve heard this a lot. I don’t think it is accurate.
The fact that the election was so close does not mean, therefore, that people wanted a middle-of-the-road president and policies. It means half of the voters wanted a conservative approach; half wanted a more liberal approach. And the vast majority of Americans didn’t care.
Moving to positions that neither group really supports is the mandate of the election? I disagree.
“The election was close. Therefore, you should take every position you ran on and change it to more closely reflect the views of your opponent.” I don’t think so. What you ran on got you elected.
(This is where you say something about SCOTUS, Jeb Bush and/or SoS Harris.)
And if you want to talk about overall vote totals, I’ll talk about red-and-blue county maps, and how President Gore could have flown from New York City to L.A. and not gone over any area that wanted him as its president.
