Did Jeb Bush, Kathleen Harris and the Supreme Court just steal the 2000 sElection "a little"?

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17. Romney would not benefit Jeb

when I snaked past the call screener on Larry King Live the night before the Republican convention in 1992, and became the first and as it turned out, the only critical caller, there was one statement they (GW and Jeb) made that sticks out-
something to the effect of (..people keep saying, but...)"George Bush is not the pope of politics"

Now, these two cocaine cowboys were as lucid and clear spoken as you will ever hear, no matter what was in their blood.
And, anyone looking for a drop of truth was in the wrong place.
GW has an arrogant self stroking pattern of telling horrible jokes in terrible taste, but the pattern indicates the truth of his beliefs and the untouchable status he retained. While the slightest phony scandal may derail a Democratic candidate, the endless supply of incriminating facts meant nothing to his victory train.

I had never heard the expression or suggestion that GHWB was "the pope of politics" despite an around the clock obsession with C-SPAN and CNN back then.
The only rational conclusion is that GHWB's power, at least within their party and among sympathetic ears, approached that sort of
level.
I would never expect any candidacy that could obstruct the next Bush occupant to have a snowball's chance.
Could Rove be clueless?