What were your first thoughts when it was declared Bush had successfully stolen the 2000 election?

[NNN0LHI]

I double dog swear my very first thought was I hope this crazy bastard doesn't get us involved in any wars.

Don

[grytpype]

1. I couldn't believe it could happen in America.

I still don't believe it.

[liberaldemocrat7]

31. I realized that that did not appear a good birthday present in 2000.

I decided I wanted to create a symbol of the illegitimacy of Bu$h

I created the George W Bush 2000 stolen election commemorative silver and gold coins.



We don't sell the coin any longer but we sell the image of the coins
at http://www.zazzle.com/maximus7/find/qs-stolen+election/cn-238083065491105452/sp-0/ps-45/pg-1?sz=1&rf=238083065491105452

[grytpype]

45. I also withdrew my application for the Supreme Court bar.

[Eurobabe]

2. I'm moving out of the country

WE'RE FUCKED!

Although I came back, after 2004 I had return-regret and longed for my civil liberties.

[ananda]

3. I was glad it was over.

I never thought Bush would be this bad,
or that he'd serve past one term.

How stupid was that!

[zanne]

32. Alot of people were thinking the same thing.

Most people in my family were. They thought I was crazy for being so worried about it.

[MotorCityMan]

59. I heard that from a LOT of people

I was in shock through the 2000 election (that's when I first found DU). I could not believe what was going on and that there were not more people upset about it like I was.

My late partner (I miss you, Mike) would tell me I worried too much, how much damage could he really do, and that he would never get re-elected.

Well, my partner died in December '03, and did not have a chance to see just how much damage a stupid, souless drunk like * could do (remember how it didn't matter that * was dumb as the proverbial box of rocks because he would have a bunch of good advisors?)

At the time of the election I couldn't believe my co-workers were cracking jokes about the butterfly ballets, hanging chads, etc. I wanted to scream at them, "They're stealing an election, and you're joking?!?!"

That's when I began to realize just how much of a problem the mainstream media is. The talking heads were screaming "Constitutional crisis! This needs to be resolved NOW! The people want this resolved!" This ran counter to the polls at the time, where the majority wanted this handled fairly, not quickly.

[NMDemDist2]

4. my thought was "you bastards" my feelings were dread and fear

I cried (literally)

[zazen]

5. that they'd purge the academics and then start a war; turns out I was wrong

on the order. Shows how irrelevant the academy as a voice of dissent as become since Vietnam, Bayh-Dole, and corporatization of university leadership.

[Tesla]

7. As soon and they said they weren't sure Gore got Florida

I knew the Bush family cabal was back.
I started crying in 92, and then again in 2000.
Daddy started this years ago!!
They investigated Clinton to death over women, so they could hide what they were still doing behind the scenes!

[Virginia Dare]

6. Deep rage and profound hopelessness...n/t

[demnan]

8. I cried too

And then I called my friend who had worked on the campaign with me and we decided to do something, to go out to try and forget our sorrows. We picked the wrong place and time. We picked the Little Theater of Alexandria on a night when Barbara Bush was in the audience. I'll never forget how smug the old bitch looked.

[AtomicKitten]

9. Despair, anguish.

:(

[terisan]

10. We are going to go to war; have our economy destroyed; and lose our world leadership. I posted it on

a NY Times forum and some posters told me I was surely being too negative.

I'll never know why so many people were pollyanna about Bush. They are older now and many are now wiser and poorer.

After 9/11 I was surprised by how many people were unwilling to accept that Bush and his gang had fore knowledge of an attack, and rallied around him.

even when we finally got to hear Condoleeza's excuse: we thought it was going to be an ordinary hijacking.......people don't yet want to confront what a damning statement that is.

[IdaBriggs]

11. He's going to take us to war with Iraq. nt

[radfringe]

12. I wondered when he would start bombing Iraq..

it was never a question of if or would he bomb Iraq - just a question of when...

[Virginia Dare]

54. A co-worker of mine insists that Bush made a speech advocating

the attacking of Iraq BEFORE he was elected. Do you remember hearing that as well?

[radfringe]

56. no, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did

[Tinksrival]

13. It truly was panic.

I knew he was evil. It was a strong feeling that our lives would change.
I wasn't a Democrat or a Republican. I wasn't involved at all. I had been a military wife and you really do learn to be impartial. But 2000 changed everything. That election was a crime. I knew standing in my living room, my mouth agape when the suppreme court announced that there would be many more crimes to come. I really wish I had been wrong. Bush made me afraid, he truly did.
I started searching for the one sure way to be rid of him and I became a Wes Clark Democrat. I still feel if General Clark was the nominee in 2004 he would have beaten this monster. Oh well.

[tetedur]

14. When they went to court to stop the vote count I said to myself,

"They do not believe in democracy."

It followed that they were trying to undermine the entire system built on "the consent of the governed."

When the Supreme Court stopped the vote count, I thought, "We don't have America anymore." I thought I was alone in my thinking.

On or around December 18, 2000 when Bush said, "This would be a heck of alot easier if this were a dicatorship, so long as I am the dictator...." I said to myself, "He's putting it in our faces. He's rubbing our noses in it."

[truebrit71]

40. See, when they went to the SCOTUS I had hope because up to that point they'd been States Rights...

..advocates...I thought to myself that Team bush had screwed the pooch and that the SCOTUS would refuse to hear it and let the FL SCOTUS ruling stand...Imagine my surprise when they went against their own tide and chose the giggling murderer as the new pResident...

THAT'S when I knew we were well and truly screwed...

[Cerridwen]

15. "It's finally happened" n/t

[Tesla]

64. Thanks for the quote

we were really naive.
Oh the good ol Days!!

[A HERETIC I AM]

16. Quite frankly, i wasn't surprised. Bush was/is a put-on anyway..

by that i mean he was arranged - put on to the American people precisely BECAUSE of oil. War with Iraq was inevitable when he became president, whether 9/11 happened or not. We all know that now.

Why else on earth would an illiterate, ignorant, likely addict, C student, single term governor of Texas who failed at every business he ever entered into be promoted so heavily to the people of the United States as someone that could somehow properly lead them?

The idea that George Herbert Bush was a legitimate candidate for and an appropriate holder of the position of President of the United States of America is one of the biggest scams ever foisted on the electorate in the history of politics.

And they pulled it off TWICE!

If nothing else, Rove has to be admired for his marketing genius.

[acmavm]

17. I didn't think that it could possibly be true, that somehow there

was a big mistake. And then when they announced that the outcome was unclear, I knew I was right.

My heart was broken when I saw a picture in the newspaper of bush**, cheney, Bowel, Rice and Rove in the Oval Office before the Supreme Court decision came in. They had just moved in. And I know right there and then that they were gonna steal it. And I just cried.

[MissDeeds]

18. Everything already posted and more

I was in shock and angry. For several weeks, I really expected protests and demands that the *selection* be overturned. Then came the sinking realization that we were no longer the country we once had been.

[DU9598]

19. 2000

I grieved for the generational loss of the Supreme Court as a guaranteer of civil rights and civil liberties.

[liberal renegade]

20. I remember watching the election results

when Dan Rather said, Al Gore needs the state of Florida and Pennsylvania to win. Moments later it was official, Mr. Rather announced that Al Gore had won both states and he was our next president.

Breathing a sigh of relief, I went outside to have a smoke. Ten minutes later, I came back inside and my wife said that there was a problem in Florida. Right then and there, I knew we were fucked!

That was the night TENACIOUSRADICAL was born. :grr:

[Froward69]

21. I fat out told everyone

We are going to war! some asked where? I simply answered. Where the money is.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. I was first incredibly sad and then really pissed off, knowing that we had our

pResident sElected for us. A pResident that didn't want an honest vote count to see if he won fair and square. I knew that we were sunk.

[zalinda]

23. I knew we were f****d, big time! n/t

[librechik]

24. "That can't be. That's illegal"

and it was.

[Vidar]

25. An unsuccessful suicide attempt.

[raccoon]

26. I was disappointed, but never dreamed he'd be as bad as he has been. nt

[madokie]

27. Oh shit now what do we do

you asked, I told

[Rambis]

28. "lots of votes to be counted in Florida" snicker smirk

I told my wife he is going to have his brother fix this fucker! Not surprised at all-

[truebrit71]

41. I felt that too when he said that...THAT'S when I knew the fix was in...

...when the MSM announced FL for Gore and they went to the bush Klan gathering and he smirked about how FL wasn't a done deal yet...then i KNEW his brother had fixed the vote....the rest of the night was a mixture of rage, despair and disbelief...

[Rambis]

46. My wife... "this is America they can't do that"

Me: Watch them! I have been at peak outrage ever since.

[Z_I_Peevey]

29. First thought: It's a coup.

Then there was just blind rage at the Supreme Court traitors.

[zanne]

30. I thought the Supreme Court was complicit in a crime. nt

[Obamarama]

33. "If he managed that, what else will he do?"

Well, I guess the last 7 years have answered THAT question.

[Mandate My Ass]

34. An incredible sense of dread and foreboding took over

I remember talking to a friend a few days later who said "Calm down. He'll be wildly unpopular and unable to get anything passed and in four years we'll be rid of him." If only...:-(

[sinkingfeeling]

35. God help us!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

36. this country is becoming like banana republic etc.

[Bluebear]

37. My stomach hurt, but I thought he would be a harmless dope

who would be in and out in four years.

Also, I lost all respect for the SCOTUS as an independent branch of government.

[truebrit71]

38. I knew we were completely screwed...

...I knew he was a coward and a moron, that was clearly evident, but I had NO idea just how evil his boss was...

[Bigmack]

39. I felt awed....

... to be present at a true turning point in history.... the end of the US as we have known it.

[calimary]

42. I just said "uh-oh..." to myself. I had a VERY bad feeling, and I didn't

know why. I just had this bad feeling - a sense of deep trepidation, I guess, about things that COULD go very wrong now. Of course at the time there was no way to know HOW very wrong things went as a result.

I remember when he was "introduced" in that lovely staged ceremony where the Democratic speaker of the Texas legislature and all the pretty flags and he even offered a comment indicating he was aware that there was a vast number of Americans who hadn't voted for him and he was going to earn our trust. Yeah, MY ASS. I remember watching that and feeling a cold chill going down my back and the hair starting to stand up on the back of my neck.

I will never forget that. It was just visceral. Just the strangest thing, and I remember noting that to myself at the time - "gee, why am I getting these chills - is that a bad omen or something, or am I just being paranoid here?" I didn't know a huge amount about him beyond not being impressed by everything I had seen and what I DID know. And, of course, it was a no-brainer to vote for Gore, in my opinion, even back then. I didn't know WHY that hair was standing up on the back of my neck. It just did. But I noticed it straight away and was troubled by it. And I remained troubled by it for weeks. That is, until suspicions started to turn into realities.

Now, of course I do know. EVERYBODY does. :shudder: :cry:

[calimary]

43. Sorry, hit the wrong button.

self-delete.

[angstlessk]

44. I went to bed happy as a clam thinking Gore had won and woke up

to a frigging nightmare!!!

[Mountainman]

47. I felt that I could no longer rely on the Supreme Court to interpret laws fairly.

I had always thought that no matter what ass hole laws were past the Supreme Court would defend the Constitution and protect us from them.

I no longer trust the Supreme Court to protect me. It is one of the biggest disappointments in my life of 61 years.

[Ilsa]

48. I knew we'd have a war. Didn't know where. I correctly figured

out that his popularity would fall pretty quickly and it did, until 911.

[opihimoimoi]

49. The way it played out: Bush and the GOP had no CLASS was my first thought.s

[MiniMe]

50. My first thought was "Oh Shit, we are soooo fucked"

I expected the disasters overseas, and the return to reagonomics, but I never expected the assault on our rights and the assault on the constitution.

[havocmom]

51. First and second thoughts: America has been killed & oh, the humanity...

Then, in 2001, DU was born and I felt better.

[sakabatou]

52. Indifferent.

I wasn't into politics back then.

[dkofos]

53. This wasn't an election, it was a coup!!

[Rambis]

61. "The 2000 presidential election if you can call it an election"

Jimmy Carter University of Iowa 4/18/2007
He got a standing O from me.

[SlowDownFast]

55. Disbelief. n/t

[HeraldSquare212]

57. That I thought Scalia would make a good president

[bobthedrummer]

58. That some type of a coup had taken place eom

[Lisa]

60. my heart sank, because I knew that some very bad things were going to happen

Actually I had a sense of foreboding from about September on, that there was something brewing. I started to feel better on election night when I saw that Gore was leading -- but then I turned on the TV one last time before going to bed, and saw that the networks had revoked their calling of Florida for Gore. The TV stayed on until past daybreak, because I had such a powerful sense of approaching dread that I was unable to get to sleep. I have never had such feelings during an election before.

[mod mom]

62. I thought a revolution was eminent.

[ShadowLiberal]

63. I cheered, then realized around when Bush invaded Iraq what a horrible leader Bush was

And after that started to realize "wait a minute, I seem to be agreeing with democrats more then republicans lately", and switched to an independent, then later to a democrat as I began to disagree with the GOP more and more.

I grew up in a family of big republican supporters. At least I can say I was too young to vote in 2000, so I can't look back and kick myself for voting for Bush.