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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)were perpetrated by the Republicans to try to steal that election. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Democrats who voted for Bush eg.
Has everyone forgotten Katherine Harris? Karl Rove? The voter purges? The machines?
And even with all their dirty tricks and outright criminal activities, Gore still won. Even if Nader had not been in the race at all, that election would have been stolen. They couldn't win, even with all their dirty tricks, but their Ace in the Hole was the SC. And they, more than all the rest, committed the worst crime, because they are in such a position of trust that their abuse of that trust alone, was a crime. But to abuse it to steal an election, as Vincent Bugliosi said 'none dare call it treason', because that kind of crime was so beyond imagination when the laws governing treason were written, it is not actually included.
But as he further stated, it may not be possible under any statute to charge them with treason, but it was in fact treason. They became domestic enemies when they decided to interfere in an election like that and stop the counting of votes.
Had all the votes been counted, we know now, Gore would have won. He did win. My objection to the constant harping on one minor issue in that horrendous, shameful historical event, is that it covers for the real and actual crimes that were committed.
Edited to add, the out of proportion focus on Nader, in light of the real outrages that occurred in that election, makes zero sense to me, unless you are Republican and would prefer to ignore the actual crimes committed by your party. Any outrage expressed over that election should always be directed to the actual reason for what happened, NOT at a minor part of it, not even at the Democrats who voted for Bush. Those were legal actions, no matter how wrong-headed. But to ignore the real crimes in favor of something so minor and LEGAL, is very, very strange to me.