Mark:

I couldn't agree with you more about Gore throwing in the towell much the way Roberto Duran did against Sugar Ray. "No mass." I think he just didn't have it in him to fight at that level. Bush's people seemed better prepared for the PR (paid goon squads) and legal battles. It shouldn't be lost that the Bush team outspent the Gore team 4 fold for lawyers. Or the fact that Bush was the one who sued Gore.

As for whether or not Bush winning the leagl battle over Gore would have made any difference in out current circumstance, that is a matter very much open to opionion. I started a thread about his a while back and the opionions were intersting.

Don: I can't think of any period in my life time when the executive branch held so much power. The Johnson adminstration certainly had its way with Congress but not with the Supreme Court. Bush, on the other hand, can depend on this Court to give him 5-4 decisions day in and day out. Watch Affirmative Action.

Bobert