Let's Debate.....Impeach George W. Bush. ( Archived) (281)

Heeeyyyy, I'm a redneck and I don't like bush, or nascar, or some country

Gore was not satisfied with the recount, so he wanted to change the rules of counting. That is why they stopped recounting.

Yeah..he wanted a FAIR count...What kind of excuse is that???

You guys Idolise him, for what happened to him... understandable, All media control really!

OMG...you really are delusional....They were scared to death because Gore was picking up votes...

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Election 2000: U.S. Supreme Court Puts a Stop to Florida Recount
Aired December 9, 2000 - 6:20 p.m. ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Amazing developments out of the U.S. Supreme Court today. You know that the Gore and Bush camps have been watching this closely. We're going to check in right now with Candy Crowley at the Bush camp, and also Jonathan Karl following this from Washington, D.C., on the Gore camp.

Jonathan, first to you, a reminder from the Gore camp this is not just a legal war, but a public relations war as well. Ron Klain, the spokesman for the Gore camp, coming out and releasing numbers that he says comes from the partial recount that has taken place so far.

JONATHAN KARL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, what Ron Klain did is he came out and he said that in a partial recount in 13 of Florida's counties, that Al Gore had picked up 58 votes, and in Klain's view, that put him well on the way to overcoming George W. Bush's lead in Florida. So immediately after that, that prompted a press conference by two Republican governors, Governor Racicot of Montana and Governor Pataki of New York, accusing Ron Klain essentially, in so many words, of contempt of court, because Judge Terry Lewis in Leon County had said that there shall be -- and this is a quote from Terry Lewis -- "no partial counts shall be reported either formally or informally." And there were some hearings to see whether Ron Klain was indeed in contempt of court.

I can tell you right now, Daryn, I have just heard that Ron Klain indeed was not held in contempt of court, he had been notified as such by the court, he has not been held in contempt of court. Apparently, the reasoning, as come from a Gore campaign source, is that Judge Lewis' order on no partial recounts being announced was an order to the canvassing boards, it was not an order to the campaigns. So Ron Klain apparently has been cleared of that charge, but again, a sign that we are in very much a political battle here, as well as a legal battle.

As far as that legal battle, the Gore campaign -- I asked one of their top lawyers down there in Tallahassee what's next, and he said, what's next, we're going to stay up all night and write our brief to the U.S. Supreme Court. That argument, of course, to be Monday. Laurence Tribe will be leading the charge for the Gore campaign, and they are preparing, they believe they just have to turn one U.S. Supreme Court justice to their side, because, of course, they had that 5-4 decision on the stay of the county. They believe if they can just convince one justice to change his vote, or her votes, then they can get all those votes counted down in Florida.

And now to my colleague Candy Crowley, who has been, of course, covering the Bush campaign in Austin, Texas.

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jonathan, basically the Bush campaign wanted two things out of the Supreme Court: first, a stay. That is a stop to the ongoing recount in Florida, and they got it. And then a hearing before the Supreme Court on their case that the Florida Supreme Court acted unwisely and outside the law when it ordered those recounts to start in the first place. The Bush campaign, at least for now, won on both counts, and they say at all levels of the Bush campaign they are pleased. However, they are not sanguine, because they know that they still must make this case, as James Baker said, on the merits.

The Republicans were acting like mad dogs and they filed one law suit after another until the supreme court said you can count but it must all be done in a day.

I certainly do not idolize Bush and from what I read the majority of American people think he is ruining our country..

The Republicans used to be a well oiled machine that could get anything they wanted, yet corruptions and flirting with boys brought down their power in recent years. Not sure what the Democrats have, they seem to be scatter brained alot

i think he speaks of kennedy