Sidebar: I realize we  at  bartcop.com  won't settle this issue,
                but it needs to be settled before the Greens give Smirk another term.

This is a CC I got in the mail and I just added my two cents.

It is so tiring to hear one democrat after another (evidently grasping at straws) blame
the outcome of the last presidential election on Greens and their candidate. Let's look at it:

For the record, I have not blamed the Greens exclusively.
It's true, had the Greens not voted for Ego-boy, Gore would've won,
but many factors were involved in The Florida Theft.
 

1. Al Gore won the election. Do I need to repeat that? Apparently,
   I do. AL GORE WON THE ELECTION. If he had won by another million
   votes and had it stolen, would that mollify you? No, then you blame
   it on flying saucers or planetary alignments, or something
   (Anything! Help, my candidate is a bum, and my party is ball-less!).

 If Gore had won by "another million" it would've been much harder
 for Scalia to appoint the boy king over the will of the voters..

2. Al Gore would have won the election by an even wider margin if he
   had simply used his nomination acceptance speech as a spring board.
   That night, he said what many millions wanted to hear. Then, he set out
   on the campaign trail to be dull, wimpy, centrist, and neo-liberal. Then again,
   maybe SOMEBODY was inspired by the wooden block who couldn't even
   carry his own state. Oh, I forgot! Ralph Nader caused him to lose!
   It had slipped my mind! It had nothing to do with his own incompetence,
   voter fraud, or a corrupt Supreme Court! Yeah, Ralph Nader, that's the ticket!

  True, Gore refused to fight, and that was a factor.
  Gore ran away from the most popular politician in momory and he also refused
  to use the "big hammer" on the campaign trail, which I hope he now regrets.
  History will remember that Gore lost to an idiot with an IQ of 91.

  By the way, I think the evidence says Gore did win Tennessee,
  but not until after the election was decided by Scalia.

3. If you want to know who is really assisting the Smirk and his pals in doing such evil,
   as you put it "might well be irreversible for mankind, for the planet, for all life",
   perhaps you should have a look at your democrat "long slow curve" friends.
   Let me see...  they bent over for the tax cut, they bent over for the energy bill
   the other day, they are bending over for junking Kyoto, they are bending over on
   missile defense, they are bending over for "faith-based charity", they are bending over
   for the roll-back of environmental protections...need I go on? Or will you rationalize
   this apparent cooperation as some sort of really, really long, very, very slow, flat line
   that somewhere at infinity will begin to curve? In fact, they are so silent and compliant,
   one would almost suspect they are cooperating!

   I wish I had a snappy comeback for that, but he's right.
   The Democrats are a party of sheep.
   We didn't want to win, we just wanted to make nice and please Mr. Rove.
   We didn't want the rightful winner, we wanted our Thanksgiving holiday.
   We didn't want to fight for victory, we wanted to be ladies and gentlemen about the whole thing.
   By contrast, the Republicans wanted to win - that's all it took.

4. All of this Nader bashing by the same democrats who are supposed to be the opposition
    is laughable. I guess it is like a kid who doesn't have the balls to stand up the bully, so he
    becomes a bully himself and pushes around the littlest kid on the block.
    I guess that beats taking a risk by fighting the Smirk, eh?

    No, that's your guilt.
    YOU helped the boy king get appointed.
    Even if Gore ran a shit campaign and the Democrats were too scared to fight,
    you can't minimize the 90,000 Nader votes in Florida.
    Nothing can change the fact that the Greens put Bush in the White House.
    Nothing.

5. I never knew that you democrats were so anti-democratic. I guess I didn't get the party memo
    forbidding me ever voting for the candidate of my choice. A million apologies, comrade Stalin!
    Please let me redeem myself by voting for the party apparatchik of YOUR choice next time around!
    My God! I don't know what I was thinking!
    What inexcusable behavior on my part! I had forgotten that being an American meant that I had to
    dutifully vote for a democrat or a republican, as all loyal Americans must! Never again shall I
    foolishly think that "freedom" means "freedom"!  Thank God for the guardians of the State, like you,
    who will guide me on the true path of freedom and obedience! Hail, Oh Great One!

    What's wrong with you?
    You had every right to put Bush in the White House.
    It's your refusal to accept the facts that we're pissed about.
    You have every right to give Bush a second term, too, but we wish you wouldn't.

    By the way, I'm not a violent person, but if you were male, and said that paragraph 5 to me,
    I would strike you repeatedly.
 

    In conclusion, buzz off. You should think about what you are saying.
    After getting all of this stupid hate mail from democrat jerks, there is no chance I will ever vote
    for any member of your chicken-shit party ever again.

    Again, you have the right to give Bush a second term.
    Just don't come whining to us when Bush destroys the environment, Mr Green.