During the testimony of Condoleezza Rice the main question people everyone wanted an answer to was whether anything could have been done to prevent the attacks on September 11, 2001. The one answer no one was able to bring themselves to consider, or discuss, was whether a Gore administration would have been more focused, more apt, and more able to continue previous administration's antiterrorism efforts and whether those efforts might have prevented attacks.
An unlikely scenario? Possibly, but considering the Bush administration's whole focus was ABC (Anything But Clinton), a Gore administration more likely would have kept more Clintonites in place and they might have gotten around to putting an anti-terror plan in place well before September 4.
While the Gore answer wasn't discussed, you have to wonder if late at night Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy or the gang of three (Scalia, Rehnquist, and Thomas), or even the average Republican, ever have second thoughts on wrongly awarding the 2000 election to Bush. In reality, individually they are probably not at fault. Collectively they are.
Florida Republicans and House and Senate Republicans would have just as surely worked to overthrow the results of the election. And even if Gore was allowed to win, the right wing probably would have made it so difficult for him to govern that it's possible he would not have been able to put his plans into place.
Perhaps not, but it would have been nice, and right, to have given Gore the chance he earned to govern.
