The Presidential election of 2000 was very close. Voting totals were disputed in some states. Our nation had a immediate need to resolve electoral disputes in several states.
Sound familiar?
You betcha.
As I vaguely remember, the two states with the closest close ballot-counts were Ohio and Florida. However the Ohio dispute was resolved I do not remember. But the final moments of the Florida vote-counts were a matter of intense controversy.
Long story short . . . the Florida counts were so close that the our US Supreme Court was called in to resolve the matter. It was not a clear-cut situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida
Local and State officials had been trying to interpret vote-count, even on a miniscule level . . . down to the point of calling (as a baseball umpire would call “strike” or “ball”) whether the “hanging chad” on a paper ballot was a legitimate vote or some kind of mistake by the voter. And Florida’s Secretary of State was having trouble sorting all the questions being raised by both parties.
Our Supreme Court was recruited to sort out the mess. My only memory of that situation was that Justice Antonin Scalia decided to resolve the cluster-mess by clarifying, for his fellow-Justices (and for our nation as a whole nation) some coin-toss judgements that would, in the end, resolve the issue.
The result was that George Bush Jr. was later sworn in as our President.
So be it, sayeth our Supreme Court.
Consequently, Al Gore accepted the Supreme’s Court’s ruling. He stepped aside, making way for George Bush to occupy the white house.
Al Gore was an honorable man. He understood that our national peace and security was far more important than his own hopes for higher office.
Twenty years later, our Presidential election of 2000 was very close. Voting totals were disputed in some states. Our nation had a immediate need to resolve electoral disputes in several states.
Sound familiar?
You betcha.
But in 2020, our national election was not even as close as the 2000 election was. And yet, and yet . . . the Loser refused to take his ball and go home.
Instead of doing the honorable thing, donald trump chose to start a treasonous obstruction of Congressional vote-count, by drumming up a mob to interrupt and terrorize our official Electoral vote-count in Congress, January 6, 2021. However this present Jack Smith prosection of trump turns out, donald is obviously the chief insurrectionist.
The election of 2020 was not evan as close as the 2000 was.
And yet, and yet . . . the Loser drums up a riotous mob to do his dirty work for him—possibly even provoking a civil war— only because he refuses to take his ball and go home.
Donald Trump is not an honorable man; he is a sore Loser. He chooses to tear our nation apart for the sake of his own ego.
Al Gore was an honorable man. Al took his high hopes and went home in 2000 to Tennessee. From there he supported a cooperative, international effort at saving planet earth.
I am a registered Republican. But in the next election, I will not be voting for the chief traitor and insurrectionist trump if he is the GOP nominee. I will vote for Mike Pence or Chris Christie if either of them is nominated, or even some other law-abiding Republican. I will not, however, vote for donald trump. And guess what--there are many, many other Republicans who feel the same way.
If necessary I will vote for Joe Biden again. The man knows what he is doing. He has been governing in Congress and the Constitutionally-defined Executive branch since 1972.
I merely wish that the Dems would quit catering to the transies who want to surgically rearrange God-given bodily equipment.
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