What Would the RIght Done to Gore?

Ever wondered what would have happened if Al Gore had been allowed to win the Presidential election in 2000? Afterall, only extremist challenge the fact that Al Gore got more votes nationally than George Bush. It was only through Jeb Bush's assistance in Florida that Bush was able to edge ahead by around 530 votes and "win" Florida's electoral votes, despite leaving nearly 180,000 votes uncounted.

What if those 180,000 votes were counted? GOPers point out that Bush would have won if the four county recount was allowed to continue, however that ignores the fact that Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis, who was overseeing the recount, would have allowed more of the 180,000 ignored votes to be counted. And the result according to the review - Gore wins.

Al Gore was the choice of Florida’s voters -- whether one counts hanging chads or dimpled chads. That was the core finding of the eight news organizations that conducted a review of disputed Florida ballots. By any chad measure, Gore won.

So Gore won. What would the Right have done next? One only needs to look to Ukraine where the "winning" side apparently is pulling a page out of the Right's 2000 playbook. For those who forgot, GOP congressional aides staged a fake riot in Florida in order to stop the recount Miami Dade County.

Seeing how well that worked, in a story in the Washington Post, Ukraine Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said that he would not accept a victory by his opponent in the Dec. 26 rerun of Ukraine's contested presidential race and that his supporters were likely to turn out into the streets en masse to block such an outcome.

"Even if Mr. Yushchenko wins, he will never be a president of Ukraine," Yanukovych said in a 45-minute interview at his campaign headquarters in Kiev. "The people who voted for me, they will never recognize him. They are talking about it even now."

Yep, that's what conservatives would have done in America. Right and wrong were, and are, never important to conservatives, only winning. They would have fought tooth and nail to capture what they didn't win, despite the harm it would have done to the country they allegedly love.

So were the Democrats right not to fight? While it may have protected America in the short term, in the long term it may allowed 9/11 to occur, it allowed Bush to turn the world against us, and it pushed the country financial chaos. So in an attempt to be "good Americans," Democrats allowed great damage to be done to the country.