{"id":9988,"date":"2013-04-29T13:22:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9988"},"modified":"2013-04-29T14:01:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T21:01:43","slug":"sandra-day-oconnor-maybe-bush-v-gore-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9988","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: ‘Maybe’ Bush v. Gore Was a Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Maybe”? Ya think?! From Chicago Tribune<\/i><\/a>, on their recent interview with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor about 2000’s infamous Bush v. Gore<\/i> case…<\/p>\n

Looking back, O’Connor said, she isn’t sure the high court should have taken the case.<\/p>\n

“It took the case and decided it at a time when it was still a big election issue,” O’Connor said during a talk Friday with the Tribune editorial board. “Maybe the court should have said, ‘We’re not going to take it, goodbye.'”<\/p>\n

The case, she said, “stirred up the public” and “gave the court a less-than-perfect reputation.”<\/p>\n

“Obviously the court did reach a decision and thought it had to reach a decision,” she said. “It turned out the election authorities in Florida hadn’t done a real good job there and kind of messed it up. And probably the Supreme Court added to the problem at the end of the day.”<\/p><\/div>\n

“Probably”?! Ya think?! The paper goes on to explain that O’Connor’s “vote in the 5-4 Bush v. Gore decision effectively gave Republican George W. Bush a victory over his Democratic opponent, then-Vice President Al Gore.” That, after the U.S. Supreme Court had stopped the public hand-counting of the votes cast by the people of Florida. <\/p>\n

Had O’Connor and friends not stopped the state-wide hand count, they would have found, as a consortium of media and academics did afterwards, that Gore defeated Bush by every conceivable counting standard<\/a> in the state of Florida.<\/p>\n

Contrast O’Connor’s thoughtful, if ridiculously-too-late response to the question of the controversial Bush v. Gore<\/i>, with that of the still-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was seen over the weekend yucking it up with Bill O’Reilly<\/a> of Fox “News” at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. When asked, in 2007, about the case which allowed five Supreme Court justices to install a U.S. President over the will of the people, he responded that it was “water over the deck”, and Americans just need to “get over it.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Four years after Bush v. Gore<\/em>, in 2004, Democrats vowed not to let that happen again, of course. Their Presidential nominee that time, then Senator John Kerry, promised he would not concede until every vote was counted. Despite massive reports of fraud, particularly in Ohio, and Exit Polls finding he had won in swingstate-after-swingstate, countering the still-unverified electronic results reporting that he had lost in many of those same states, Kerry flip-flopped and conceded the day after the election.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, now that an unverified and unverifiable election in Venezuela has recently resulted in the U.S. Government’s favored candidate being announced the loser, Kerry, now serving as Sec. of State, is calling for a full hand-count of “paper receipts” in that country because he claims to be concerned about the “confidence of the Venezuelan people in the quality of the vote,” as our own Ernie Canning detailed earlier today<\/a>. Yes, that’s what Kerry really<\/em> said.<\/p>\n

Do you suppose he, like O’Connor, may someday realize that “maybe” he made a mistake too?<\/p>\n

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