Well, to be accurate, Bush got the second-most votes. The guy with the least number of votes in the 2000 election was Rufus Washington, candidate of the Kill Whitey party.
Are you sure about that? Maybe you should compare the number of votes for Gore to the number of eligible votes in the US.
To come back to the OP
I had a range of reactions when I saw the implicit assumtions made in the question
This very phrasing says a lot about what’s going on at the moment
I’m disturbed, exasperated, saddened, frustrated etc at this thought process. 
(Dick Brown, feel free to disassociate yourself from what I’m working towards here, as I grant you’ve posed the OP as a pure hypothetical)
What I read here is that
“If you hate someone, or more specifically what they are doing, the inevitable, logical, natural next step is to blow them up.”
And it is just this attitude that has put the US in the position it is now in. See the irony?
Nothing because opinions change all the time. I just read that about 70% of americans have a negative view of French PM Chirac. I bet that 6 months ago 90% of americans didn’t know who Chirac even was.
Our reputation will rebound eventually, but i think Bush’s unilateralism (not just on the war in Iraq, but ever since he came into office with his abandoning of international treaties) will continue bite the US in the ass. But as far as the OP, nothing will happen. Most 1st world nations don’t resort to war. At worst there will be some name calling but i assume it will be business as usual.
Dunno if Gore would have been any better. Instead of a war-crazy, bash-the-baddies-and-they-won’t-bother-you-no-more pres, we could <gasp!> :eek:…
Don’t even want to think of anyone affliated with the Clinton administration…
It’s our planet, the rest of you are here at our sufferance. We got the Big Stick, you speak softly. If at all.
“Know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac El Dorado, hot-fuckin’-pink, with whaleskin hubcaps and all-leather cow interior and big brown baby seal eyes for headlights… yeah! And I’m gonna drive around in that baby doing 115 miles an hour, getting 1 mile per gallon, suckin’ down quarter pound cheeseburgers from McDonald’s in the old-fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers… yeah! And when I’m done suckin’ down those greaseball burgers I’m gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the side, and there ain’t a goddamn thing anybody can do about it. You know why? Because we got the bombs, that’s why… yeah! Two words–nuclear fuckin’ weapons, OK? Russia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, they can have all the democracy they want…they can have a democracy cakewalk right through the middle of Tienamen Square and it won’t make a lick of fuckin’ difference, because we got the bombs, OK?”
~Denis Leary
Asshole
A…SS…HO…LE! A…SS…HO…LE!!
Well, considering that the offense the Republicans nailed Clinton on had not occurred when the investigation began, I’d say psychic predictions are a time-honored tactic of partisans.
Oh, and gobear, technically, it was a plurality of Americans who voted for Gore – not a majority.
Do write-in campaigns work in your country?
I voted for myself and I don’t think my wife voted for me, so I think I qualify for this.
I think I tied Rufus, as many of his supporters were coonvicted felons, unable to vote.
Dont worry USA… Australia still loves you.
We have millions of muslims sitting over our heads, without out big friend with a big stick (USA) they will invade!
Who did where in the what now?
Dude… that’s just so Bad and Wrong it’s not even funny at the best of times, and given the context…
Well, we don’t want to piss off China… how big is their standing army again? And we know that North Korea, Pakistan, and India have nuclear capabilities; they’re always in the paper… So let’s start by staying on Asia’s good side and move along from there.
Don’t worry Austrailia, the U.S., unlike some other countries, cough France and Germany cough stands by our friends.
Yes, folks, “standing by your friends” means agreeing with them, no matter what they say or do.
elucidator :* It’s our planet, the rest of you are here at our sufferance. We got the Big Stick, you speak softly. If at all.*
Now now elucidator, I agree, but let’s be fair. Remember it was we who gave the modern world free speech. These tyros need time to sublimate their envy and resentment and learn to live as equals with men who are guided by high purpose and truth.
That is so banal, trite and lacking in originality that I am going to reply in kind.
If the French had not backed us both financially and militarily in the Revolutionary War we would today be participating in a Parlimentary form of government and taking our marching orders from Tony Blair. Which come to thing of it would be a vast improvement over that insipid dunce of a philistine we are presently saddled with.
Whatever, dude. America has, and will, stand by her friends. I am proud to include Britain, Austrialia, Poland, Spain, and Italy amongst them.