Gore Gives up

[Nathan Newman]

He's giving up because there is no daylight for challenge in the Jim Crow
Five's decision; it was incredibly carefully crafted to leave no room for
further challenge, in Florida or in any other state. It went out of its way
to find an equal protection violation in what the Florida Supreme Court did,
while specifically sanctioning unequal voting systems developed
independently by separate counties and a host of other "complexities" that
they would not review.  This tailored smart-bomb approach to equal
protection was condemned by the dissenters, but Rehnqust et al were taking
no chances and no prisoners.

A complete partisan hack job from end to end.  The message was, whatever you
do Gore, you will lose.

The question is what Gore says- he won't declare war on Bush but the camp
has put out that they won't concede that Gore lost the count.  So it will
probably have the character of bowing to the reality of the SC's decision
and recognizing the Bush Presidency on that basis.  We will see how wimpy it
will be in the end.  But at some point, it barely matters-- Gore is history
and the issue is the disenfranchisement of his voters, not his personal
decision on concession.

-- Nathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Perry" <sperry at usinternet.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:02 AM
Subject: RE: Gore Gives up

all he said was that he's suspending recount efforts. maybe he's going to
challenge g-dub to a duel.

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Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:54 AM
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C'mom people no reactions?