How do we get out of this mess?

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As far as I can tell, there are only a couple of decent ways out of this hole we're digging for ourselves (meaning the nation, not TFL ;))


1. Al Gore concedes the election. He would be a hero, a martyr for his cause. Bush would make some comment re: "We will do our best to address the needs of your voters and yap yap yap" and we could move on. Gore could ask his rabble to support the president, and Bush could show everybody just how strong a 'coalition-builder' he really is.

Even if Bush conceded, it would be better (IMHO) than dragging this thing into the courts and further dividing the nation and wrecking what little dignity we still have. I would hate to see us whining and clawing like the Gore camp is now. Even Nixon let Kennedy have it w/o going to court over Cook county. Although if Bush conceded, I don't see that restraining the Gore machine any...

2. On the 17th, when all the absentee ballots arrive, GW has not only the electoral college, but the popular vote as well. This would appear to be very possible still. Then the Gore camp has to litigate without the "fighting for the will of the people" BS, right out in the open where they can be exposed as power-hungry tenacious lawyer punks.

3. ? I have no other options on the radar screen right now. Every other scenario I come up with is a disaster any way you look at it.


Any ideas?

- gabe
 
Dragging this into the courts would be both the worst AND the best course of action to resolve this.

The worst, because it would put a huge blot on the confidence of the American voter, nationwide, to know that his or her vote counts for something.

The best, because it would, with a sane ruling, reaffirm that the Constitution and the laws of the United States and the State of Florida, laws which have been in place in many cases for decades, are more important than a small group of voters who want to retry the process because their man didn't get elected and they want to play God with the process.

I'm hoping, in a small way, that this does get to the courts, and that it is bitchslapped right back at the Democrats.

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