Reply #72: Maybe they saw the real Gore and had to stop him

[IronLionZion]

You can't have an independent-minded candidate on a national ticket or the big contributors won't get their backs scratched when it comes to policy making and appropriations. That's politics in America. Welcome to crazy world.

The only reason Gore made it so far is that those people THOUGHT he was establishment, when actually he was a very awesome, wild-eyed, maverick Democrat.

The fix for Bush was not only in Florida, but in low-income (solid Democrat) neighborhoods in Tennessee, Ohio, and other large swing states. The Republican excuse is "poor people are too stupid to vote" but actually the rich (solid Republican) precincts get their ballots verified and get second or third chances if they fuck up. If poor people fuck up, then too bad. It was so flagrant it makes you want to scream.

But there was some cheating for Gore too in Chicago and Philly but was not as bad as the Bush supporters. No cities have nearly as high voter turnouts as solid Democratic Chicago and Philly.

Now John Kerry is establishment up to his eyeballs, but I'm voting for him anyway. A liberal tweedledee is better than a neo-con tweedledum any day.

At the time, quitting looked like a good idea. But if Gore knew what sort of fascist direction this country was heading, don't you think he would have fought it like a motherfucker and got Wellstone, Feingold, and Lieberman in too? (Lieberman may be conservative but he wanted to be Veep)