Reply #: I don't exonerate Bush and the Repugs.

[saracat]

They stole the election.But Gore let them.And if Democrats didn't realize until later what Bush was cabable of ,they were incompetant politicians. I don't think they were. I think they wouldn't go the distance. LBJ or JFK never would have wimped out. The Dems weren't always overconcerned with "fairness". We have "bought" many an election and we have fought fire with fire in order to win. And Team Gore didn't do it. They wouldn't even "sully" themselves by having Clinton stump for them. And Clinton knew that he could have turned the election. Thats why he was so angry with Gore after the election.He thought Gore threw away a golden oppotunity and he was right.
And why , pray tell, when Gore had the moral high ground, and the overwhelming support of the Party, after looking like a candidate for 2004, and determinng that he could get the nomination, did he refuse to run?He had no fire in the belly. He wimped again and betrayed all his supporters. I am sorry to say there is a pattern here.