Pic Of The Moment: Supreme Court's Conservative Justices Strike Down Part Of Voting Rights Act

[Ken Burch]

57. You're ASSUMING those people would have voted for Gore if Ralph had pulled out in Florida.

The truth is, almost all of them would just have stayed home. They felt that this party had abandoned them and there was never any real chance that Gore would have won them over. He just didn't have appeal among people who cared about progressive values. All liberals who DID vote for Gore voted for him with clenched teeth and no enthusiasm. Nobody but the DLC was actually HAPPY that Gore was our nominee that year.

The truth is, the real cause of the Florida defeat was Jeb Bush's voter roll purge of 70,000 black voters. Why on earth do so many people here keep acting like what Jeb did doesn't matter?

Also, you can't assume that the vacancies Dubya got to fill WOULD have occurred if Gore had been sworn in. At least some of them
would have tried to tough it out until another 'pug got into the White House.

Ralph shouldn't have run in 2000, but it serves no purpose to keep bashing him and his supporters about it. And if we hadn't let the damn DLC take over in 1992(clearly, a fighting Real Democrat like Tom Harkin would have beaten Bush the First too-the Icountry wasn't demanding that we repent for ever being nice to poor people and labor) we wouldn't have ended up with Gore.

At some point, you're going to have to accept that 2000 was the fault of the RIGHT wing of the Democratic Party...the people who should just become Republicans and be done with it, because they don't agree with Democratic values on anything that matters.