-Caveat Lector-
' One Democrat in Washington said: "This is payback time for the Clinton
impeachment. They tried to unseat a Democratic president so we'll try to
screw a Republican one before he's even started." '
Electronic Telegraph-Wednesday 29 November 2000
Democrats play for the long game
By Toby Harnden in Washington
DESPITE their rhetoric about the "will of the people" and "every
vote must be counted", Democrats on secondment to Florida and
playing backstop in Washington privately accept the near
certainty that the game will very soon be up.
Al Gore and his running mate, Joe Lieberman, face almost
insurmountable legal obstacles and public opinion is turning
against them. Given these realities, the five hours Senator Tom
Daschle and Representative Dick Gephardt spent in Tallahassee
this week championing Mr Gore's cause was a surprise.
"Hey guys, how are you?", asked a studiously casual VPOTUS
(Vice-President of the United States) seated at his dining table
in Washington at the start of a televised conference call between
"Tom and Dick" and "Al and Joe".
But contrived as it was, the call showed that Mr Gore's battle
for the prize he has yearned for since childhood is,
paradoxically, about more than him and more than the presidency.
Even if - or perhaps because - Mr Gore will never become POTUS,
Democrats have judged that there is much to gain from spinning
matters out.
Put simply, the more resentment there is towards a President
George W Bush, the more likely Republicans will be to lose
control of both Houses of Congress in the mid-term elections of
2002 and the White House two years later.
This explains why the comments of Mr Gephardt, who nurses
ambitions for the presidency in 2004 and is a long-time foe of Mr
Gore, seemed calculated not to boost Mr Gore's legal case but to
push the argument that Mr Bush could never be a legitimate
president.
He said: "Under the Freedom of Information Act somebody can come
here, a professor or some other academic, and count these votes
in the days ahead. So if we don't find out who won and who had
the most votes, we're going to find out later.
"Wouldn't it be a terrible thing for the country to find out a
month or two from now that you already had the national popular
vote by 300,000 votes in the country? How terrible would it be to
find out that you also had the most votes in Florida and should
have won this election?"
The fact that Mr Gore narrowly won the popular vote is an
irrelevancy because the person who wins 270 electoral college
votes in the victor. But Democrats have repeatedly been using
this statistic to undermine Mr Bush. Even more insidious was the
threat that some "independent" individual could come along after
Mr Bush was inaugurated, decide every dimpled chad from
Miami-Dade had been a vote for Mr Gore.
One Democrat in Washington said: "This is payback time for the
Clinton impeachment. They tried to unseat a Democratic president
so we'll try to screw a Republican one before he's even started."
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