colin wrote:
> Bush won the election because many more people voted for >him than for
Gore, that the Supreme Court justices may >have been conservatives, but
totally unbiased and only >pinkos could possibly think that this was not a
fair result.
I'm crazy to get into this again, but here are the facts that most of the
news media do not emphasize (indeed, most of them had no clue what the
ruling meant until a few legal scholars explained it to them awhile after
the ruling came out).
1. Bush won because he won the most electoral votes
2. The Supreme Court voted 7-2 that the method of re-recounting in the 3
counties was unconstitutional because it wasn't fair (no standards in
"divining the intent of the voters", selective counties chosen rather than
all counties, etc.). Of the 7 justices who decided this there were 2
liberals, 3 conservatives and 2 moderates (who switch between liberal and
conservative in their rulings). In another part of their ruling, they voted
5-4 against doing the re-recount because of the legal deadlines. In their
previous ruling 10 days prior to the final ruling, they vacated (threw out)
the Florida Supreme Court's initial ruling and clearly asked that court to
come up with a clarification as to legality. The Florida Supreme Court
never responded to the U.S. Supreme Court until they were in deliberations
10 days later on the second matter. Even when they responded, they did not
set out constitutional standards for the manual recount and did not clarify
their initial ruling. Had the FLORIDA Supreme Court responded swiftly with
legally solid standards, perhaps there would have been time to do the rest
of the manual recount before the deadline came up. Maybe some should argue
that they could have moved yet another deadline for Gore, but he'd already
had one moved for him, and at some point it is the responsibility of his
lawyers and the court to have gotten their act together.
> I have seen the light. i finally realised that our own right >wing
fundy(you know of whom I speak) was truly sent by >God to show us the light.
And whilst he sits back feeling
> righeous at his good deeds, I tremble in the full knowledge >that I have
been sinful in my belief that he is a total...(well >insert your own word
here) , and can only pray in the
>hope of saving my wickedly pink soul.
I don't know how the "fundies" break down politically in the U.K., but here
they have always been a small segment of not only the Republican party but
also the population at large. The Republican party has also turned many of
them off in recent years and I've heard they have formed their own
"Constitution Party" at this point. Every Republican I know, from every age
and walk of life, is a liberal socially. In fact, the only religious
fundamentalists I know are staunch Democrats, I swear!
Kakki
