...The Clinton/Gore years are almost over!

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), December 05, 2000

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We have just begun to fight. You wetched Wepublican wascals will never wecover from our wesolute litigation.

-- (EFudd@DNC.suesuesue), December 05, 2000.

The Congressional tag team of Daschle-Gephardt is serious. When they spread the rumors of how intently Gore believes in his cause they are not delusional. They have a goal.

Their goal in encouraging Gore and encouraging all the legal challenges to Governor Bush is to delegitimatize Bush. They want to make the very existence of the Bush presidency seem to be a scandal or an injustice brought down on the American people. In the months ahead they will raise searing objections to every undertaking the Bush Administration attempts. The confirmation hearings of Bob Bork and Clarence Thomas will seem to have been social events of Victorian grace next to the hell these fellows will create for Bush nominees. Every other Bush nomination, no matter how minor, will be raised to the level of crisis.

Then the Democrats' scorched-earth brigade sees itself winning Congress in 2002 and the White House in 2004. There is only one thing wrong with this scenario. They do not believe in anything beyond maintaining office. They have no unique principles or policies. What policies they do have that possess any attraction to the American people are Republican policies.

Can a political party come to power driven solely by the will to power? Can it win the hearts of the American electorate after displaying such ruthlessness? We shall see.

In the meantime, enjoy the Gore spectacle. Don Quixote was a comic masterpiece.

Published with the permission of Creators Syndicate.

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is editor-in-chief of The American Spectator.

(Posted 11/30/00)

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-- (R_Emmett_Tyrrell@American.Spectator), December 05, 2000.

Tell you what I think? I think I'll have another beer.

A week before the election, I wrote that I thought Gore would win. Like many voters, I was surprised at the contested counts. Flint wrote on another thread that supporters of Bush or Gore tended to argue that their man had won. I never liked either one, but I think that Bush is going to be our next president at this point, barring some unexpected legal decision in throwing out the absentee ballads, which I don't expect to happen.

Then again, I didn't expect the Supreme Court to hear the case in the first place.

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), December 05, 2000.

kb8um8:

As time goes on, we see fewer supporters of either candidate, and more antipathy toward the "bad" guy, who is now being described as the very devil himself. A close election between two unexciting but fairly capable people has degenerated into a fight to the death between a drooling idiot and an evil monster.

They both have a tiger by the tail, and neither had any choice but to grab it and hold on. They are victims of circumstances, but neither is evil and neither is stupid. And Bush is probably a little better, in my opinion, but not much and not definitely either.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), December 05, 2000.

Can we say "third party candidate," in the next presidential election? If both of them are worthless, why not try........?

-- Mrs. Cleaver (Mrs. Cleaver@LITBBBB.xcom), December 05, 2000.

I agree. Third parties are the way to go!

-- Dr. Pibb (dr.pibb@zdnetonebox.com), December 06, 2000.

>They both have a tiger by the tail, and neither had any choice but to grab it and hold on.

That's a good point, Flint. There's a lot of money tied up in both campaigns and the hard-core backers on both sides aren't giving an inch, although I think some of the lower level dems are ready to move on.

As for third party candidates -- good idea, but I haven't found any that I like well enough to support. I thought that Nader had some good ideas, but the Green Party policies were too far out for this Ohioian. Would that John Kasich (local boy - R) had done better in his bid for President. He's a better man than W. Oh, well. Maybe next time.

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), December 06, 2000.

test.

-- (note@to.self), December 06, 2000.

John Kasich

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), December 06, 2000.