UNDER-VOTES? FUHGEDDABOUTEM

I was mentioning to some liberal friends the other day that the Palm Beach Post had counted the 10,000 “uncounted votes” in Miami-Dade and given Bush a bigger lead. No-one was fazed. The under-votes are yesterday’s news, they countered. We’re now into over-votes, after Lake County found several hundred Gore votes previously discounted because of extra write-ins that spoiled the ballots. Oh, never mind, then. But do you remember the hue and cry over the uncounted under-votes in Miami-Dade as well as I do? Do you remember that this was the essence of the Gore campaign’s argument at the time? We know now that if Gore had had his way, and if he had gotten the recounts he wanted in his own hand-picked counties, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach, he would still have lost. That ‘mob’ in Dade County actually cost Bush votes! If that news had emerged in November, it would have dealt a crushing blow to Gore’s attempt to over-turn his opponent’s victory. The response to this news by Goreites? Any hand-wringing or second thoughts or even – God forbid – retraction of their now constant claims that Gore obviously won? Fat chance. Their response to this devastating piece of news is still: Ignore it (try find the news of the Palm Beach Post anywhere prominent in the New York Times or the Washington Post) and change the subject. What’s relevant now is a state-wide full recount of under-votes, over-votes, dimples and whatever conducted by left-liberal media organizations. All that matters to these people is that they get to rig the counting to get the result they want – even if they have to include spoiled ballots, dimples and constantly changing parameters. If the full rigged recount even then doesn’t show a Gore victory, don’t expect any front page news. But if Gore gets as much as one write-in, watch the banner headlines fly. The shamelessness continues.