Looks like the right is making a concerted

[Jim Lane]

41. You write, "Arguably Harris and others acted improperly...."

Wait a minute, "Arguably"? The impropriety of Harris's purge is just about the clearest aspect of the whole Florida 2000 tangle.

As a lawyer, I would find it hard to write a brief defending the outrageous decision in Bush v. Gore (if I somehow got stuck with such a task), but I would find it even harder to write a brief defending Harris's action. In fact, there was litigation about the latter. The result was that the purge was eventually undone, though not of course in time to affect the (s)election of Bush as pResident.

As for Nader, his wrongdoing is certainly different in kind from Harris's, in that he did not violate any laws. He had a legal right to choose to run. Similarly, Rush Limbaugh and his ilk have a legal right to spew their garbage over the radio. We can acknowledge the existence of those rights and yet judge that individuals, in choosing whether and how to exercise their rights, have chosen wrongly.