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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Macaca-Doodle-Don't Even Try It

by The Station Agent

Far be it from me to suggest that the Democrats should be real hard-asses about the potential challenges in Virginia and Montana, but I did think it might be informative to look back at how this was all handled in 2000, when a pretty important election came down to a much smaller margin.

Remember Sore-Loserman? Remember civility? Remember the brute squad headed up by John Bolton swooping into Miami to stop the vote?

In 2005, when Rent-an-Ambassador John Bolton was going through his first failed confirmation, John Nichols of the Nation wrote:

Published on Thursday, April 14, 2005 by The Nation

John Bolton vs. Democracy

by John Nichols

"Im with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count."

Those were the words John Bolton yelled as he burst into a Tallahassee library on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2000, where local election workers were recounting ballots cast in Florida's disputed presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

Bolton was one of the pack of lawyers for the Republican presidential ticket who repeatedly sought to shut down recounts of the ballots from Florida counties before those counts revealed that Gore had actually won the state's electoral votes and the presidency. The December 9 intervention was Bolton's last and most significant blow against the democratic process.

The Florida Supreme Court had ordered a broad recount of ballots in order to finally resolve the question of who won the state. But Bolton and the Bush-Cheney team got their Republican allies on the U.S. Supreme Court to block the review. Fearing that each minute of additional counting would reveal the reality of voter sentiments in Florida, Bolton personally rushed into the library to stop the count.

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Is that what George Allen wants to put America through? Does he want to be the new Al Gore? Or the new Howard Dean with that YouTube video being aired endlessly?