Powerline highlights a piece by Joseph Perkins from the San Diego Union-Tribune on the Al Gore electoral legacy and its impact on the kerry campaign.

It is because of the Gore precedent, because he tried to win the 2000 election in the courts after losing at the ballot box, that this nation remains so bitterly divided between Republicans and Democrats.

And the nation is likely to remain bitterly divided following this year's presidential election. Because John Kerry is already gearing up to contest the outcome of the election even before voters go to the polls on Election Day.

In fact, lawyers for the Democrats already have filed some 35 lawsuits in some 17 states. And if Kerry goes down to defeat on Election Day, there almost certainly will be an avalanche of lawsuits claiming that the Democrat somehow was cheated out of the presidency.

This should be a part of the President's message for the last two days both to energize the base and to motivate the middle. He needs to challenge voters to send a clear message to the democrats and their waiting army of lawyers that the American people want the Presidency to be decided by the voters not the courts.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 09:12 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment