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In reply to the discussion: Salon: How Jeb Bush cheated America & helped deliver the presidency to W [View all]Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)6. May I ask you a question about 2004? I vividly remember
the footage of the Bush family in a hotel on election night. And something like W said what's going on in the 1-4 corridor and Jeb said he would "make some calls"
Last time I looked I couldn't find anything on this episode. Have you ever seen it?
I remember it stinking to high heaven.
I am much more upset about 2004. We weren't savvy in 2000 - but had no excuse in '04. Kerry was ahead in pre-election polls - believe by 2-4? Then Bush "won" by a swing of 6. As long as I live I will never believe it wasn't rigged. Especially since exits said most people made up their minds weeks before and not days before.
P.S. Don't forget Jeb's felon purge I - luckily felon purge II was averted.
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seafan
Nov 2015
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Although, I suppose that pointing this out will only INCREASE his poll numbers with GOP voters?
TrollBuster9090
Nov 2015
#14
But at least everyone, even in the right wing media, should admit they're unethical.
Enthusiast
Nov 2015
#26
Looking back, we should have demanded that Jeb recuse himself - somehow. nt
Laura PourMeADrink
Nov 2015
#9
"it blames the actual perpetrators; in other words it blames our Republican allies
MisterP
Nov 2015
#24
Yes, the Florida legislature did threaten to send a Republican slate to the Electoral College
Samantha
Nov 2015
#25
Yes, the legislature determines the slate, but the Florida state constitution stipulated that the
Samantha
Nov 2015
#33
Jeb Bush shoved the heist into the FL legislature. But he didn't keep his hands clean this time.
seafan
Nov 2015
#43
JEB Crow Shrub "should be hammered with this...every opportunity"!1 If TRUMP hammered Shrub
UTUSN
Nov 2015
#37
Trump, at next week's GOP debate, should zero in on Jeb!'s role in Election 2000.
seafan
Nov 2015
#39
In this vein, and what happened in the intervening 8 years, Jeb destroyed America.
IHateTheGOP
Nov 2015
#45