Giuliani to Kerry (via CNN): "You've got to face reality, step aside"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

But looking at Ohio, the vote deficit Kerry faces (136,000) and the number of outstanding provisional ballots that remain uncounted (approximately 140,000), CNN legal analyst Jeffery Toobin concludes that there "just doesn't seem to be any way that John Kerry can find 136,000 net new votes out of this universe."

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Mark Racicot, chairman of the Bush reelection team, dutifully played the concession card on TV, with Giuliani telling CNN that Kerry should step aside "because it can't be done. You've got to face reality." Asked when Bush would declare victory, Racicot said, "He's trying to extend the appropriate courtesies and be gracious under the circumstances and allow the Kerry campaign, in the cold, hard light of day, to take a look at the conclusion. And sometimes you become overcome by the facts. It is not easy. When they released the statement last night , you still had on the board a number of different states. Those states have now been resolved. When they look at it this morning, they'll come to that" conclusion.

At ABC News, former Bill Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos reported, "The maneuvering continues. I talked to a very senior Bush official a couple of minutes ago, and he announced that President Bush would give a speech, and now they postponed it. What they are doing, as this official said to me, is giving Sen. Kerry a berth to do the right thing -- to send the signal and now give a few hours if that's what it takes for Sen. Kerry to come out and make his own announcement."

Asked what kind of advice supporters are likely sending Kerry Wednesday morning, Stephanopoulos said, "I'm sure Democrats are calling him and his campaign privately to say the same thing. It won't take long. The numbers speak for themselves. It is a huge popular-vote victory for President Bush. It is virtually impossible to go over the top in Ohio. You just talk about going out with dignity and grace."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html

[frogfromthenorth2]

1. He's right... it's over DAMN IT!

[mac56]

5. Think so?

Here's a clue - any time, every time you side with Giuliani against a Dem, expect me to be on you like a dirty shirt. Just for future reference.

[frogfromthenorth2]

10. Oh, I hate him alright... buit IT'S OVER... and nothing can change that

[mac56]

11. Trying to think of a way to tell you

to shut up without being rude.

Oh, the hell with it. Shut up.

[frogfromthenorth2]

13. It's called a reality check... I am pissed off as you are but with a

margin over 100 000 votes it's OVER...

[mac56]

14. Reality check this.

self edit

[frogfromthenorth2]

17. Yeah... your silence is GOLD....

[mac56]

18. Yes, it is.

You really don't want to know what I edited out.

Have a nice day.

[frogfromthenorth2]

20. Don't think I am happy about the results. But hanging on false hope is

beyond useless. 4 years ago there was hope... now there are none. Better to understand it now that wait 1 month to finaly realize that 58 million people are MORONS....

[Maiden England]

2. Guiliani can kiss my ass

I hate that moran

[patrice]

3. Slimy Rudy has to wait.

EVERY VOTE MUST BE COUNTED.

No matter how long it takes.

[Barrett808]

4. Et tu, George? n/t

[Catfight]

6. If you don't count votes, you don't support democracy, count the votes!

Even Bush should be proud to count all the votes, unless he remains a coward.

[gasperc]

7. yeah we stole it fair and clean, good luck trying to catch us

ratbastard fuckers!!!!!!!

[vickie]

8. Giuliani is such a jackal. He is a vile 911 slut. He's despicable!

[Flammable Materials]

9. Eat shit and die, Rudy. That goes for your mistresses, too. n/t

[Loki]

12. These people are below disgusting.

They have so lowered the ethical bar to be a repuke that it would be like trying to do the limbo under buried cable. They are the cancer that is destroying this country. Like I told my children before they left for school, the Repukes have no moral authority - they have lied, they have cheated - they accept the premise that the end justifies the means. You do not have to accept this misogynist, racist, bigoted theocrat, ignorant piece of shit called George W. Bush as your president.

[kittenpants]

15. I love how the repukes are talking about RECOUNTS

holding up the election, trying to make it sound like Kerry is stalling unreasonably. Ummm, actually we just want the votes counted the first time, so if you can just keep the gloating out of your ugly corpse-like mouth for another day or so...

[liveoaktx]

16. I remember how EAGER Guiliani was to step aside after 911 when

HIS election came up. Not.

[Doosh]

19. Rudy, still living off of 9/11, he can take his mistress and hit the road