Neoteny wrote:tzor wrote:Just for the record we didn't really elect Bush twice.
The first time we refused to elect Gore.
The second time we elected Bush only because the people who wanted Gore were still sore and we wanted to annoy them.
Heh. That's an interesting way of putting it...
I know it is an interesting way of putting it. As I go and look back on the year 2000 I am still amazed how much I changed in the short months between spring and fall. I was mad as hell for Bushās attempt to āwinā the New York primary by in effect invalidating all the opposition. I was real mad as hell that the my favorite candidate for president couldnāt get elected in the party because he was both African American and Roman Catholic and thus he was opposed in the southern states. I did not like Bush, not in the least.
I hated Gore more. I hated his elitist attitude, that he knew what was good for us and whether we wanted it or not he would force us to his superior will and master plan.
There was also the problem that Gore was a pre-born baby killing advocate in the great american self genocide of our own nation.
That was the reason why in 2000 I voted for Bush. Not that it mattered, I live in NY.
Now 2008 is another matter; currently the solid democratic state can give neither Hillary nor Barack a majority in polls over McCain so as some people suggest we have become a āpurpleā state, no longer solidly blue as we once were.