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In reply to the discussion: In hindsight Al Gore should have fought the Supremes [View all]Baitball Blogger
(52,427 posts)38. I suspect that 9/11 is the reason that everything stopped in its tracks.
I'm referring to the vote count that was being performed by the papers, trying to confirm that the vote would have gone to GWB. I suspect that when we got hit by 9/11, the hidden hand decided that we needed to galvanize the country and I never trusted the result count that resulted in a win for GWB II, by something like 537 votes. Especially when there was suspicious behavior in the Seminole County elections office.
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Waaaay too fucking polite. Goddamn polite gets you MAGA and other assorted shit-eating fascist fuckstains.
SoFlaBro
May 2024
#42
I won't be here to see it but my guess would be the historian will point to Bush v Gore as the start down this.....
usaf-vet
May 2024
#128
You don't have a clue. I've been in Florida for decades. So get your shit correct.
SoFlaBro
May 2024
#122
You don't have any idea what you are talking about. Welcome to DU. Let's see how this goes.
SoFlaBro
May 2024
#123
Jack Ruby's defense of killing Oswald was not to put Jackie and the USA through that as well.
GreenWave
May 2024
#77
Why are you ignoringthe Bush crime family and their surrogates, they're the thieves!
GoreWon2000
May 2024
#83
The slippery slope was sort hung on a chad that was plain to see at the time...
Model35mech
May 2024
#3
That magnifying picture of the guy trying to figure out the punches was a horrible optics picture.
jimfields33
May 2024
#111
And of course, there was the "Bush is the same as Gore" crowd who gave us Alito.
NNadir
May 2024
#10
The media did not report the NAACP hearing which found blatant examples of fraud.
shrike3
May 2024
#64
Hindsight is always 20-20, or so we imagine. Sometimes it's just wishful thinking.
Hekate
May 2024
#14
Damn right......I always thought he was a mister nice guy and wouldn't ruffle feathers.
a kennedy
May 2024
#28
Right, but didn't he just, and sorry for saying this, lay down after the ruling.....
a kennedy
May 2024
#40
First, he did fight it all the way to the Supreme Court. Something after? Are you suggesting a coup?
unblock
May 2024
#29
and just how was he going to do that? The mistake made was NADER and those who said "a vote for Gore
JohnSJ
May 2024
#30
I suspect that 9/11 is the reason that everything stopped in its tracks.
Baitball Blogger
May 2024
#38
Republicans are always "emboldened." Ideology. Was Florida theft proven in a way to take legal action?
betsuni
May 2024
#55
Right? Maybe he could have enlisted a mob to storm the capitol on 1/6 and seize power!!
tritsofme
May 2024
#88
Time to hold Congressional dems accountable for their failure to act in 2000
GoreWon2000
May 2024
#108
There is absolutely nothing more Obama could have done, these ridiculous myths need to die.
tritsofme
May 2024
#115
Well it's not true. There is nothing else he could have done, regardless of how you feel.
tritsofme
May 2024
#125
Definitely not! Plenty of folks love their fairy tales where Obama could have done "something"
tritsofme
May 2024
#129
"Democrats don't fight" myths, some sort of moral passionate populist "fighting" spirit they could've, should've,
betsuni
May 2024
#131
Figuratively speaking, there should have been blood in the streets when that happened.
hadEnuf
May 2024
#120