Ever wonder what it would be like if we had Al Gore for the last seven years?

[Captain_Nemo]

Do you ever wonder if all the people who claimed that both parties were the same and voted for Ralph Nader thought: "What if I didn't vote for Nader? What if we had Gore and were leading the world in fighting global climate change?" "How much different would our lives be now?" "Should I not have dismissed him like all the repubs dismissed him?"

Do they ever wonder?

[bullimiami]

1. dont blame it on nader. he didnt cheat anyone of their votes.

rove and cheney did for the stupid little arrogant ape from texas. gore won anyway.
we are pitiful whining sheep. we should have shut this country down and demanded our rightly elected president.
gore fought it clean and hard right to the end. i guess we didnt realize yet that our country had been taken over by corruption all the way into the supreme court.


kerry won too. we sat on our asses and let it happen again.
imagine if he would have had the balls to not accept the obvious rigged election and asked us march with him and demand proof bush won?

its our own fault for accepting what we knew was wrong.

like they say in texas ... fooled you once shame on you, fooled you twice shame on you again.

[wtmusic]

2. And the sad thing is

we'd probably do it again.

How bad would it have to get? Don't even want to think about it.

[Captain_Nemo]

4. I look back at that time and feel so pissed about people who looked me in the eye

and said there was no difference and that's why they were voting for Nader. Where is their guy now? I don't know but I know where we are.

Also, Florida was lost by 500 something votes. If the Nader voters voted for Gore it would have been harder to steal the election.

Nader was a factor.

Now Gore is their Hero.....who the hell are those people anyway?

[bullimiami]

14. i think your anger is still misdirected.

those who voted nader did nothing wrong. nader didnt steal any votes, he didnt cheat anyone.

there were many many more than 500 votes stolen in florida that were rightly gores.
put your anger there. gore won florida, fair and square and despite the nader votes.

be pissed at jeb and harris and the rest of the corrupt republican bastards who stole that vote away.

[Carrieyazel]

3. After 16 years of a Dem President; no war, no 4000 dead and Obama would not have any reason to run

Gore's misfortune has given Obama everything

[Captain_Nemo]

5. Yes, P.S. I like Richardson a lot. Good Luck to you. (And all of us.)

[NewJeffCT]

16. Most importantly - no Roberts & Alito on the Supreme Court

Imagine actual liberals replacing O'Connor & Rehnquist?

[ben_meyers]

6. Sure, VP Lieberman would be the front runner now. n/t

[Captain_Nemo]

7. We do know we'd be ahead on climate change. Playing with elections has repercussions.

[frankenforpres]

8. NO!!!! too depressing.. :-( n/t

[Carrieyazel]

9. There would be no Obama running for President, that's for sure.

[AndyTiedye]

10. yes

:cry::cry::cry:

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Every day, but I don't blame Nader.

I blame all the skullduggery in FL -- Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush, the "Brooks Brothers riot", James Baker, and of course, the Supremes, most especially the father of two Bush attorneys, Antonin Scalia.

Justice Scalia's sons

Two of Scalia's nine children are connected with law firms representing Bush.

• Eugene Scalia, 37, is a partner in the Washington office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where Bush lawyer Theodore Olson also is a partner.

• John Scalia, 35, has accepted a job offer with the Washington office of Greenberg Traurig. Another Bush lawyer, Barry S. Richard, is a partner in that firm's Tallahassee office.

Legal ethics expert Stephen Gillers of New York University's law school says Scalia isn't required to step aside. "It's not a basis for disqualification, so long as neither child is involved in the case," Gillers said.

Neither son is directly involved in the case. Eugene Scalia specializes in labor law. John Scalia won't actually join the Greenberg, Traurig firm until sometime next year, according to partner Joe Reeder, who said the job was offered weeks before the election and has no connection to the Florida case.

The law could require Scalia to consider stepping aside if Eugene's income could be "substantially" affected by the outcome of the case. He is one of 242 partners in Gibson Dunn, but the firm excludes from his pay any share in income from any Supreme Court cases. That is aimed at meeting the high court's written conflict of interest standards, contained in a statement signed by Justice Scalia and six other justices who have spouses, children or other close relatives who are lawyers.

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/12/12/supreme.court.conflict/#2

[liberalla]

12. It's not Nader's fault (though he didn't help)...

When all is said and done, they had the Supremes on their side. Nothing was going to stop the R's from achieving their goal.

Leaving out Nader, yes, I often wonder where we'd be if bush/cheney hadn't been proclaimed winners.

[silverojo]

13. If he hadn't tried to be a conservative ass, he would've been elected

But when you run with somebody like Joe LIE-berman, you're just setting yourself up to be Diebolded by the GOP crooks.

[NewJeffCT]

15. Al Gore did a parody of that very idea on Saturday Night Live a few years back

It was hysterical. The real Al Gore was there giving an address from the Oval Office saying about how, because of their investment in alternative energy, gas prices were now 9 cents a gallon and he was sending a bill to Congress to bail out the financially troubled oil companies - because, he said, if the shoe were on the other foot, I'm sure the oil companies would be just as sympathetic.

and, he went on about how the expanding glaciers from Canada were now threatening to come into Michigan...

It was terrific.

[Vinca]

17. We would have been better off if Bozo the Clown had been in the oval. nt