"Bush would have to be the fool some of you take him to be not to take every legal advantage he could. I don't hear you blaming Gore for it."

Not a fool. Just an honest man who sincerely believed in democracy.

There's a difference between trying to use the courts to ensure that all the votes are counted fairly, and trying to use the courts to ensure that they are not counted fairly.

Maybe if the votes had come in showing Gore just ahead and Bush just behind we'd have seen the actions of the candiadtes reversed. In that case I would have been expressing my contempt for Gore. Would the people who have supported Bush in trying to obstruct the recounts have supported Gore in trying to do the same thing? And vice versa?

Well, DougR said he doesn't believe in double standards, so I take it that means he would have done precisely that. What about the others? Both sides?