----- Original Message -----
From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: Impeachment
> >> At 10:57 PM 6/20/01 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
> >> >Overturning an election is a very serious matter.
> >>
> >> Whaaaaattttttt????????
> >>
> >> Al Gore wasn't elected?
> >>
> >
> >No, just most of the people in the US and Florida voted for him. :-)
>
> In case some people did not get it, Al Gore was elected Vice President of
> the US twice, both times at the express decision of Bill Clinton. By
this
> standard, it borders on intellectual dishonesty to characterize replacing
> Bill Clinton with his chose, elected successor, Al Gore, as "overturning
an
> election."
>
ROTFLMAO. Why do you have to be so insulting? Intellectual dishonesty,
indeed. John, have I ever accused you of intellectual dishonesty? I am more
than happy to say that the impeachment of Nixon would have overturned the
landslide victory of Nixon and that it was a very serious matter.
But, it got to the point with Nixon that there was a consensus that he had
to go. Watergate did not just involve breaking the law, it involved
breaking and entering the opponents headquarters in order to help ensure
that they could not win the election.
Lets look at a second case of the president breaking the law: Iran-Contra.
It would have been absolutely stupid for the Democrats to push for the
impeachment of Reagan, unless the general mood of the public was that this
law breaking was so serious that he had to go. It wasn't, and Ollie's
steller TV performance stopped the whole investigation.
The Republicans were told by the American people in November of '98 to back
off. They didn't and pressed forward. My guess for the reason has already
been stated: pure emotion.
Dan M.
