sgtmike
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posted on November 9, 2000 12:34:13 PM new
I wonder if all the sore losers singing their song of sadness here would be singing the same sad song if all alleged discrepancies were the same but Gore had won? I doubt it. Anyone believing that this election is the first election in US history having discrepancies and post-election complaints from the losing side has been living in a vacuum.
Here we go with the race based accusations. I heard all Democrat midgets were deprived of stepstools.
Typical liberal reaction. Get over it, you (Gore supporters) lost and we (Republicans) are going to turn all liberal Democrats into green slime to be used for fertilizer; not to mention the abolishment of socialist programs (handouts.) 
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 9, 2000 12:40:11 PM new
It's the kindness that I like in Republicans.
Don't you think that if the shoe were on the other political foot republicans would be doing the same amount of complaining? Of course they would! Not a democrat or republican thing, just human nature.
green slime, huh?
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KatyD
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posted on November 9, 2000 12:44:00 PM new
Shame on you Sarge. The politically correct term is "little person" not midget. I know that you would never want to offend anyone here. May I offer you a hankie? You seem to have a bit of spittle on your chin.
KatyD
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krs
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posted on November 9, 2000 12:57:52 PM new
Yeah, interesting, but it stinks to high heaven of a fix by concerted and multifaceted effort. I'm sure that the bush camp fully expected that all of their work would
blow by unnoticed, and I think it would have had not the tally of the vote been so delayed as to make the state the hingepoint of the election.
Rutherford Hayes might have been proud, and GW Bush can have his chance at assuming President Haye's derrogatory title of "His Fraudulence" by which name he was known throughout his single term.
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uaru
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posted on November 9, 2000 01:05:34 PM new
the 96 election was a lower turn out and 14,000 ballots were thrown out in Palm Beach County. What is that county's official motto? "Vini, Vidi, Oops"
[ edited by uaru on Nov 9, 2000 01:06 PM ]
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docpjw
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posted on November 9, 2000 01:10:29 PM new
Well everyone ,Democrat and Republican, is fully riled up. Let's settle this a GREAT OLD FASHIONED way.....COIN FLIP, heck I'll even let Bush call it. Show it on TV, sell the commercials(say $5,000,000 for a 30 second spot) and use the revenue to pay down the National debt,drag it out over an hour, and ALL results are Final. The M*A*S*H finale will finally be usurped
[ edited by docpjw on Nov 9, 2000 01:11 PM ]
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stockticker
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posted on November 9, 2000 01:11:05 PM new
KatyD: 
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sgtmike
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posted on November 9, 2000 01:32:57 PM new
If "PC" becomes a law, I will voluntarily turn myself in and save the cost of a trial.
I can assure you I would be classed as a "repeat offender."
PS:
Although Gore is not a midget, it appears he (is) a small person.
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BOYSMOMMY3
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posted on November 9, 2000 01:35:31 PM new
Sgt Mike -
If the shoe were on the other foot as you said - interesting as that is exactly what your candidate thought would happen.
Bush said last week that if he won the popular vote but lost the electoral he would work with the legal system to try to get it changed - give the people what they want - his words. WELLLLL.... the people voted for GORE - so will he stick by his word - ??????
and give the people what they want??
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sgtmike
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posted on November 9, 2000 01:52:11 PM new
Bush was referring to the 700 plus attempts that have been made to abolish the Electoral College. The system is archaic.
Bush knows it requires a Constitutional amendment to change the process.
The one regret that I have that a Republican has won, is that the tiring pre-election garbage will now be replaced with the tiring sobbing and childish complaints and allegations of the liberal Democrats.
It will be like hearing an endless singing of "Row, row, your boat."
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Zazzie
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posted on November 9, 2000 01:57:30 PM new
If Bush does win he will probably follow in the footsteps of his father and be a one-termer.
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maddienicks
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:00:49 PM new
From CNN....63 out of 67 Florida precincts counted and Dubba only leads by 347 votes!
Kris
[email protected]
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sgtmike
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:02:26 PM new
Retail stores love Democrat shoppers at Halloween, they (Democrats) require two masks.
Daley of Chicago region, the Democrat heading up the complaint of the "butterfly" ballot, has just shown his two faces. It turns out the identical ballot was also approved and used in Cook county this election.
Typical Democrap.
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maddienicks
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:03:02 PM new
Zazzie - I agree. It's going to be tainted now. If he wins it (and he very well may) people are wondering. Even if all of this mess is only a sorry coincidence that his brother happens to be the Gov of FL - it's tainted. And it may well stop the Bush political dynasty in it's tracks.
Kris
[email protected]
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sgtmike
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:07:18 PM new
There are still 2300 military absentee ballots to be counted.
Pack your bags, Gore. And take Tippy with you.
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maddienicks
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:07:35 PM new
Relax, sgtmike. Dubba will probably be in office, with both his faces and his daddy's cabinet members. To say the Dems are more two faced than the Republicans is just about the funniest thing I've heard all day. Both sides are crooked.
Kris
[email protected]
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maddienicks
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:09:16 PM new
Yes. Bring on those overseas ballots.
Kris
[email protected]
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Zazzie
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:10:43 PM new
sgtmike---Bush wants to spend his military budget on fancy shoot-em-up satelites rather than giving the grunts more money. Bush used Daddy's influence to be a fly-boy in Texas rather than risking going to Vietnam.
Are you sure the military really likes him??
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stockticker
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:16:38 PM new
Most of the mail I receive has a smudged postmark and the date is unreadable. I wonder if there are many overseas ballots in-transit that were actually mailed after Tuesday...
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maddienicks
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:18:45 PM new
Zazzie - I've missed you.
I'm off to work my evening job now, so I won't be here to take the wind outta Mike's sails. Time will tell in this one. But it's history in the making, any way you look at it. The rest of the world thinks it is "preposterous" (to quote the British newscaster they showed on GMA this morning) that the popular vote doesn't carry the win. Leave it to America to make something basic like voting in a leader as convoluted as possible!
Catch ya'll later. Play nice.
Kris
[email protected]
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sgtmike
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:19:34 PM new
Jeb was a very busy man running throughout the state controlling the voters, the vote, the ballots, the ballot counting, etc.
Get real.
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sgtmike
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:26:19 PM new
I shall sail on endlessly. Hot air fills sails much better than cold air. Especially when the wind blows hard.
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Zazzie
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:28:24 PM new
Mikey---you should stop eating all that beans and cabbage. It might be hot air---but it stinks to high heavens
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sgtmike
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posted on November 9, 2000 02:46:14 PM new
Zazzie
That sound you just heard of something flying just over your head was not a low flying aircraft.
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krs
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posted on November 9, 2000 03:24:32 PM new
Buchanan Says Disputed Florida Votes Are
Gore's
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reform Party
candidate Pat Buchanan (news - web sites) said on
Thursday he believed most of the 3,407 votes he
got in a Florida county belonged to Vice President
Al Gore (news - web sites) and that people had
voted for him by mistake.
``I don't want any votes that I did not receive and I
don't want to win any votes by mistake,'' Buchanan
told NBC's ``Today'' show. ``It seems to me that
these 3,000 votes people are talking about -- most
of those are probably not my vote and that may be
enough to give the margin to Mr. Gore,'' he said.
The entire electoral race between Gore and Republican George W. Bush
(news - web sites) depends on a recount of votes in Florida, where claims of
voter irregularity have emerged in Palm Beach County.
Bush is currently ahead by little more than 900 votes in the recount that will
decide who wins the White House, according to the Miami Herald.
In addition to the more than 3,000 votes he won, Buchanan also disputed
about 19,000 ballot papers in Florida that were nullified because people
voted both for both Buchanan and Gore due to the layout of the ballot paper.
``I don't want to take any votes that don't belong to me,'' Buchanan said,
adding that he had not campaigned in Palm Beach and that the majority of
those votes probably belonged to Gore.
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krs
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posted on November 9, 2000 03:27:15 PM new
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krs
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posted on November 9, 2000 03:38:26 PM new
London, Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- When Chelsea Clinton starts her run for the presidency in 2028 -- which given the generational pattern now establishing itself in American politics may not be completely ridiculous -- she might well be able to use the same motto as her father: it's the economy, stupid.
The most curious aspect of a presidential election that is now too close to call,
with fewer than 1,000 votes separating Al Gore from George W. Bush in Florida,
is that the economy has barely featured as a campaign issue.
It's as if America's voters assume their current prosperity - - indeed, most of the
planet's current prosperity -- is the hardest of rocks, mighty enough to withstand
whatever the world or their own rulers may be able to throw in its direction.
America's blossoming prosperity, in many people's minds, is the gift of Alan
Greenspan and Bill Gates, and nothing any mere President can do is likely to
dampen or diminish it.
Yet, one need only think back eight years to reflect on how odd that state of affairs is. In 1992, when the last President Bush left office, the American economy was spoken of as being in crisis. U.S. companies were losing market share around the world, U.S. living standards were in decline, and the talk was
of the economic ascendancy of Asia and even Europe.
The economic triumphalism that is now part of every conversation about America wasn't there eight years ago: the talk was all of America's economic decline.
GW Bush's great virtue may be that he only works four hours a day. There is only so much damage you can inflict on the world economy when a round of golf is waiting: anyone who subscribes to the view that most government is harmful,will be cheered by his indolence. But if the era of American fiscal caution is ending,the world will be a poorer place.
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jamesoblivion
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posted on November 9, 2000 04:48:45 PM new
Sgtmike: I heard all Democrat midgets were deprived of stepstools.
That's very cute and all. Some people have small bodies, some people have small minds.
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krs
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posted on November 9, 2000 05:34:29 PM new
President George Bush claims that only a return to traditional
family values can cure the "poverty of spirit" that plagues places
like our decaying inner cities. But after a closer look, particularly at
his adult children, one cannot help but wonder about the values
that matter to his own family.
Bush says he is proud of his sons. One of them rented himself
out to a crooked developer who scammed HUD and helped pry
millions out of Medicare to fuel a giant health-care scam. A
second may have profited from an insider stock transaction in a
gulf oil deal at the very time that U.S. soldiers were dying to make
that region safe for oil. And the third son ran a savings and loan
into the ground while shoveling millions of its taxpayer-backed
dollars into the pockets of two deadbeat partners.
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VeryModern
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posted on November 9, 2000 05:55:36 PM new
The Top 15 Florida Excuses for Holding Up the Election
[ The Top 5 List www.topfive.com ]
[ Copyright 2000 by Chris White ]
15> Dangerous Metamucil shortage caused by misunderstood TV
reports of "many irregularities in Florida."
14> Booths in Cuba stay open until Fidel says it's time to close.
13> "Help! I've voted and I can't get up!"
12> "Give us 'Golden Girls: The Movie', and you'll get your damn
President!"
11> "Aaaaaiiiieeeeeeee! There are 'gators in the ballot box!!!"
10> Still waiting for Elian's absentee ballot to be "rescued" from
Donato's closet.
9> Jeb Bush can't decide whether to help his brother or pay him
back for a lifetime of noogies.
8> Payback for all those jokes about being "America's penis."
7> Jimmy Johnson hair fumes *still* addling voters.
6> Easy Bush victory disrupted by unfortunate large number of
easily-understood ballots.
5> Gore voters "confused" by ballot design need time to prepare
snappy answers to the question, "And you accused BUSH of being
stupid?!?"
4> "Que?"
3> Waiting for Walt's head to thaw so he can cast the deciding
vote.
2> Ballot inspectors are stuck behind blue-haired drivers going
20 MPH in the wrong lane with a turn signal constantly on.
and Topfive.com's Number 1 Florida Excuse
for Holding Up the Election...
1> "Hush up, now! Matlock's on!!"
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