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UPRIGHT
"We must fight. And we all know it. ... Now we face a great trial. And
we're up to it. So let's go." --Peggy Noonan ++ "The Florida Supreme
Court must be severely punished for participating in vote fraud.
Impeachment is too good for the Gang of Seven. Arrest, indictment and
trial are the best response...." --Paul Craig Roberts ++ "So why
shouldn't the Democrats steal this election? They've stolen everything
else." --Joseph Sobran ++ "Old Republican hands Bob Dole and John
Engler thought they had seen it all in politics, but that was before
they watched votes being 'counted' in south Florida." --Robert Novak
++ "One indisputable result of the unconcluded presidential race is
the confirmation that Al Gore is Bill Clinton's authentic heir."
--David Horowitz ++ "In truth, the issue is democracy with
federalism (the Electoral College) versus democracy without federalism
(a national popular vote)." --Charles R. Kesler ++ "Florida has now
given us the most famous dimples since Shirley Temple and the most
famous long count since Tunney and Dempsey. Meanwhile, the Gore camp
has given us the most shameless lies since Bill Clinton." --Thomas
Sowell ++ "This election opera ain't over till the fat lady sings,
and the fat lady whose aria we await after Sunday night's
certification wears nine black robes." -- William Safire ++
"Elections in a stable democracy can be exciting, contentious and even
nasty, but they should never become uncertain. One senses that the
Democratic Party, in its ferocious power hunger, has lost sight of
every competing virtue. To put it charitably, one hopes that Al Gore
does not really understand that he is playing with fire." --Mona
Charen ++ "While his legal case remains alive, it is worth
contemplating the audacity of Gore's election-stealing scheme."
--Michael Barone ++ "It does the nation little good to continue to
argue a point that has become obvious to everyone but Al Gore. The
point is this: George W. Bush is the next president of the United
States. He won the election. Al Gore did not." --Rep. J.C. Watts ++
"The media want [Vice President Al] Gore to steal the election, and
Katherine Harris is standing in the way. She's like Horatio at the
bridge." --Phyllis Schlafly ++ "With all the legal maneuverings over
chad-whacking and recounts in Florida, it is easy to lose sight of
what may well be the ultimate legal endgame in Congress. Unfortunately
for Gore, there is controlling legal authority on what Congress's
powers are with respect to a questionable state certification." --Todd
Gaziano ++ "The Washington establishment, legal experts and the
media all feel comfortable with rule by judges because the judicial
class, like themselves, is more liberal than the voters." --John
O'Sullivan ++ "We are the United States of America, not the United
People of America." --Steve Chapman ++ "The rule of law [does not
mean] litigate to death." --Bill Bennett
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
>From the left: "There is a line, not all that fine, between
perseverance and stubbornness. Al Gore is about to trip over that line
and collapse with a thud. His determination to keep fighting, even
after Sunday night's formal declaration that George W. Bush won the
presidential race in Florida, presents the increasingly unappealing
portrait of a man who wants to be a winner at any cost. ... This
mindset is destroying the goodwill Gore initially deserved. He could
have graciously called from the start for a second statewide recount
by uniform means -- either by hand or by machine -- but instead aimed
only for hand recounts in counties controlled by Democrats. He could
have agreed that counties should use their pre-existing rules to
determine how questionable ballots should be counted, but instead
pushed for new rules, drawn on the fly, to evaluate indented chads in
ways that would be favorable to him. He could have publicly demanded
that legitimate military ballots lacking postmarks be counted, but
instead cynically dispatched his running mate to merely pay lip
service to that idea." --Chicago Tribune
>From the left: "[Gore] has already had many bites at the apple. ... He
has had three weeks to overtake his rival and [has] been unable to do
so. ... [Dimpled ballots] ought not to be the basis for deciding the
presidency -- and Mr. Gore ought not want them to be. " --Washington
Post
>From the left: "[Gore believes] there's a Florida vote total out there
somewhere that will convince the public unequivocally that he won the
presidential election. ... The case he made...Monday night isn't
likely to bring a skeptical public flocking to his cause." --USA Today
>From the left: "Enough is enough, For nation's welfare, Gore should
accept loss." --San Diego Union-Tribune
>From the right: "The time for worrying and weeping about the republic
is long gone. If nothing else, the American people are getting an up
close look at a country run by trial lawyers and judges; it's a
hell-hole that average citizens and businesses disappear into every
day of the week. As to the unseemly procedures in Florida, Al Gore
made this bed, and the American people are going to have to lie in it
for awhile." --Wall Street Journal
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SECOND OPINION
THE GORON-IN-CHIEF
After each of the presidential debates, The Federalist dedicated
considerable bandwidth to, shall we say, the "inaccuracy" of Gore's
comments. It only seems fitting that we briefly review his performance
this Tuesday past, for, as noted by National Review's Rich Lowry, it
was a composite of "insulting half-truth, upon insulting distortion,
upon insulting evasion."
GORE: In many ways the act of voting and having that vote counted is
more important than who wins the majority of the votes that are cast,
because the victor will know that the American people have spoken with
a voice made mighty by the whole of its integrity.
FACT: The vote has been "made mighty by the whole of its integrity"
five times, the last of which was certified according to the plan
established by seven Democrats on the Florida Supreme Court -- per
Gore's petition.
GORE: On that one day every four years, the poor as well as the rich,
the weak as well as the strong, women and men alike, citizens of every
race, creed and color, of whatever infirmity or political temper, all
are equal.
FACT: Conservatives would insist that Americans "all are equal"
everyday -- not just on Election Day. But Gore, the great divider, and
his ilk of political victim mongers depend on the perception, by their
dependent constituencies, that there is no equality.
GORE: A vote is not just a piece of paper, a vote is a human voice, a
statement of human principle, and we must not let those voices be
silenced. Not for today, not for tomorrow, not for as long as this
nation's laws and democratic institutions let us stand and fight to
let those voices count.
FACT: It is Gore who wants to silence the voices of Bush supporters in
Florida.
GORE: If the people do not in the end choose me, so be it. The outcome
will have been fair, and the people will have spoken. Ignoring votes
means ignoring democracy itself.
FACT: No votes have been ignored and, in the end, Mr. Bush won.
GORE: That is all we have asked since Election Day: a complete count
of all the votes cast in Florida. Not recount after recount as some
have charged, but a single, full and accurate count.
FACT: After the election, Gore asked for a complete recount in only
the three most heavily Democratic counties in the state. The only
reason Gore is asking for a full recount now is that, having divined a
sufficient number of dimple chads in round five, he wants as many
rounds as it takes to "win."
GORE: Lawsuit after lawsuit has been filed to delay the count and to
stop the counting for many precious days between Election Day and the
deadline for having the count finished. And this would be over long
since, except for those efforts to block the process at every turn.
FACT: This is the longest count in history! The first volley of
lawsuits was fired by Gore's infantry of trial lawyers after the
second recount -- the only one prescribed by Florida law -- confirmed
Bush's victory.
GORE: And many thousands of votes that were cast on Election Day have
not yet been counted at all, not once.
FACT: Of course, this depends on what your definition of "count" is.
By accepted standards, all ballots in question have been counted at
least twice.
GORE: I believe our Constitution matters more than convenience.
FACT: (See "The BIG Lie.") Like Gore's recent conversion to
"federalism" was not a "matter of convenience."
GORE: I agree with something Governor Bush said last night. We need to
come together as a country to make progress.
FACT: This from the "Great Divider."
GORE: In all our hands now rest the future of America's faith in our
self-government. The American people have shown dignity, restraint and
respect as the process has moved forward.
FACT: Well, with the possible exception of Albert Gore, Joe Lieberman,
Bill Daley, Warren Christopher, David Boies et al., Tom Daschle, Dick
Gephardt, Kweisi Mfume, Donna Brazile, Bob Kerrey, Jerrold Nadler, Ron
Klain, Joe Gellar, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Paul Begala. Did we
mention Bill and Hillary Clinton?
GORE: In the end, in one of God's unforeseen paths, this election may
point us all to a new common ground, for its very closeness can serve
to remind us that we are one people, with a shared history and a
shared destiny. So this extraordinary moment should summon all of us
to become what we profess to be: "one indivisible nation."
FACT: Albert Arnold Gore is, of his own accord, pushing the nation to
the brink of a great divide.
GORE: Two hundred years from now, when future Americans study this
presidential election, let...them learn that we were indeed a country
of laws.
FACT: This, from the guy who proclaimed "no controlling legal
authority."
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DEZINFORMATSIA
"Winning by intimidation: A Republican riot squad in Miami shows GOP
will try to win at all cost." --MSNBC headline on those Izod-clad
"rioters" in Miami. **Surely there are enough Dead-heads at MSNBC to
remember what real riots looked like when leftists took to the streets
in the 1960s. {} A memo from NBC to its affiliates the night Florida
certified George Bush's victory. "NBC NEWS CHANNEL ADVISORY: We expect
certification of the Florida Election results sometime after 7:20 pm
EST in Tallahassee. ... If you are carrying the movie Titanic, please
do NOT dump out of the movie, you will get an update from NBC News as
part of the show later." {} "There is no better tonic for a 24-hour
media than a drawn-out passion play with unresolved plots, endless
details and emotional underpinnings." --Jennifer Harper in the
Washington Times
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SOCIOCRATS
"But if you look closely at that map you see a more complex picture.
You see the state where James Byrd was lynch-dragged behind a pickup
truck until his body came apart -- it's red. You see the state where
Matthew Shepard was crucified on a split-rail fence for the crime of
being gay -- it's red. You see the state where right-wing extremists
blew up a federal office building and murdered scores of federal
employees -- it's red. The state where an Army private who was thought
to be gay was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat, and the state
where neo-Nazi skinheads murdered two African-Americans because of
their skin color, and the state where Bob Jones University spews its
anti-Catholic bigotry: they're all red too." --Goron Paul Begala on
all those racist Bush supporters. ++ "There's a whiff of fascism in
the air." --Gore's mouthpiece-on-the-scene, Demo Rep. Jerrold Nadler
++ "This is war without bloodshed. [Republicans] are using g-ddam
guerrilla tactics." --Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile. ++ "These
were brownshirt tactics -- shouting, screaming, threatening. This went
well beyond dirty tricks." --Miami-Dade County Democratic Party
chairman Joe Gellar, comparing Republican demonstrators to Hitlerian
youth. **Apparently, Nadler, Brazile and Gellar do not recall the
leftists protesting outside the Republican Convention in Philadelphia
last summer. There actually were violent actions and arrests there!
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VILLAGE IDIOTS
"Our country and our institutions are strong. It is damaging not to
have every vote count." --HILLARY!, the Village Matriarch, warming up
for some really great speeches from the Senate floor. {} This week's
"Cultural Devolution" Award: "A good song should make you wanna tap
your feet and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and
set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs."
--"Music" group RAM's guitarist Tom Morello {} From the "Village
Academic Curriculum" File: "Resident Advisors at Cornell University
hosted a 'Roman Orgy' party in a campus dormitory -- with funding from
student fees. While organizers suggested that the party would consist
of just massages and snacks, it was not long before the clothes
started to come off. RA's even set the mood: dimmed lights, incense,
and a bowl of condoms. Cornell tuition money sponsored a real orgy,
the organizers were let off without punishment, and the dorm's
judgment was that it was 'a very positive and good event,' according
to a student quoted in the Cornell Daily Sun." (The Intercollegiate
Studies Institute)
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SHORT CUTS
Our favorite sign from Thanksgiving week: "RECOUNT YOUR BLESSINGS!"
{} "I can report that when they got in there today they didn't find
any pregnant chads at all." --Dick Cheney on his heart surgery. ++
"Al Gore's best friend hates him." --Chris Matthews on Gore's
attractive personality. ++ "I'm not picking my nose, that's just
chad." --Fox News reporter Carl Cameron caught on an open mike in Palm
Beach. ++ "There's some real concern about the lack of time for [the
new president and his staff] to complete the transition to the White
House. [They] want to make sure they have enough time to thoroughly
steam clean the carpets in the Oval Office." --Paul Steinberg
Night Lines:
Leno.... Oh, this is bad public relations -- today Al Gore had
hundreds of letters kids wrote to Santa Claus thrown out because of an
invalid postmark. In fact, that's one of the big toys this year, the
Al Gore doll. You wind it up and it refuses to count the votes of the
GI Joe dolls. .... Russia announced it's going to give up on the Mir
space station. They're going to let it fall from orbit, and it's going
to crash to Earth sometime early next year. Maybe -- with any luck --
it'll hit Palm Beach. .... I don't know what is causing more
problems for Gore, the state of Florida or the state of denial.
Letterman.... The news is still about Florida. The election is still
even. Now a week ago this was exciting, now that several months have
passed we still have no president and all the fun has wore off. In
Florida we got three million for Bush and three million for Gore and
that's just lawyers! .... All the big shot lawyers are in Florida.
Now if we had a hurricane.... God forbid -- this still could have a
happy ending. .... Hey, if you're an out-of-towner and you've been
knifed, and the knife didn't go all the way through - then you've been
dimpled!
Hamilton.... Democrats ripped [apart] Florida Secretary of State
Katherine Harris. They called her a ruthless partisan consumed by
ambition -- and they want her investigated. It's a federal crime to
impersonate the first lady. .... "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is
a box-office hit at the theaters. This holiday movie has great
educational value. After all, it is important for children to learn
that not all fairy tales come from campaign headquarters.
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