Gore not becoming President: whose fault?

[morningfog]

116. All of those things are irrelevant when the critical point is aknowledged: Gore won.

Gore rightfully won the popular vote. Gore rightfully won the electoral vote. Gore rightfully won the 2000 election.

There were hundreds of thousands of variables that could have widened Gore's margins or legitimately flipped the election. None of those actually matter, because Gore actually won.

For example, the butterfly ballots in Palm Beach County gave Buchanan an inordinate number of votes that clearly were meant to be for Gore. Nobody blames that, which is much more problematic to democracy than a third party candidate running a legal campaign.

I have no problem with conceding that Gore ran a poor campaign. I have a big problem when anyone suggests that the theft of a United States Presidency was due in part to the legal exercise of democracy. It is about focusing on the illegality that occurred.

I was and am a Gore supporter. I voted for Gore. He won, Bush stole it with held from his co-conspirators, Harris and five justices. It is that simple. Nader was not a spoiler, because Gore didn't actually lose.