Chris Matthews GOP "gush fest" goes back to sElection 2000

[KansDem]

Yesterday we saw Chris Matthews fawn over Tom DeLay. However, we must keep in mind this is just a continuation of a GOP "gush fest" on the part of Matthews.

Lest we forget this memorable editorial form November 7, 2000:

As warned above, even the election of a ghost to the U.S. Senate tonight might not be the week's wildest news. Al Gore, knowing him as we do, may have no problem taking the presidential oath after losing the popular vote to George W. Bush. He's lost popularity contests before. But how will the country take it?

How will a populace already turned off to politics react to the news that the guy who's gotten the most votes isn't getting the job?

We're not looking at political science fiction here. Bush is leading in the national polls, Gore in the demographic motherlodes of California, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Bush could easily outpoll Gore nationally, just as Gore could well outpoll Bush in enough states to win in the electoral college.

Jewish World Review

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when just the opposite happened, I don't seem to recall a similar editorial from Mr. Matthews chastising Bush for having no problem taking the presidential oath after losing the popular vote

Chris has been a GOP whore for at least six years now...maybe longer.

[Sparkly]

1. Oh yes, CNN had the same scenario

It was either Bill Schneider or Jeff Greenfield (or both) who kept saying that scenario would be a "national nightmare." That phrase quickly disappeared when the results came in.

[zbdent]

2. Rush Limbaugh was on the "news" channels the week before

talking about how there were legal measures which could be used if George W. Bush lost the electoral vote but won the popular vote.

As we saw, Bush did neither, and Rush flip-flopped on the "legal measures" issue . . .

[KansDem]

3. It appears Rush, Chris, and the rest all had their "talking points" ready

Supplied to them by Rove and the GOP.

[tibbiit]

4. the madening thing is the pukes

would have screamed bloody murder and prolly won... if that sceanario had occured.
The pukies would never have shut up and allowed this to occur.
They would have been screaming about diebold too, if the shoe had been on the other foot. We for some reason dont fight for our dem people, even when we have right on our side.
tib

[zbdent]

5. I wonder if the second Civil War would have been over by now

I mean, if O'Connor had voted for Gore instead of Bush, the righties would have declared war . . . that's the atmosphere this country was in at the time . . . witnessed by the white-collar "brownshirts" which invaded the offices protesting the recount, while the people were outside shouting "count the votes" . . .