This is such a crazy and bizarre bit of time we're all going through here in America right now. We are of course witnessing history, and this election madness will be remembered and written about for years to come. As of this week's publication, Al Gore continues to contest the certified election results, which proclaim George W. Bush as the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes, and as both candidates go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, I'm sensing we may finally have an end to this unique and bizarre sequence of events.
As any regular readers of this column know, I am a liberal, and yes, I did vote for Al Gore, but I won't stray off my column topic to discuss this whole mess and my opinion on it. Instead, I have found a movie angle to explain something that has really been bothering me in this entire fiasco. Al Gore is right, the rhetoric needs to be toned down. Week after week as this election saga has unfolded, conservative talk show hosts and pundits have been dispelling so much hatred towards liberals and Democrats, and this made me angrier than anything else ... angrier than George W. Bush acting so arrogant to presume he's already the President-elect, angrier than seeing one of Bush's biggest supporters, Katharine Harris, making sure she delivered Florida for Bush, and angrier than seeing the Republicans' attempts to stop any recounts, because the possibility exists that Al Gore did actually win Florida.
No, what has really made me so angry the past few days has been the incredibly hostile and hateful rhetoric being bandied across the airwaves in which Republican conservatives are grouping the entire group of Democrats together, calling them all stupid, Dr. Laura even called them evil, non-important to society, lazy ... Neal Boortz one day went on a huge rant classifying all Democrats with some of the worst descriptions in a very long list. You know, for a party whose big theme this year was they wanted to be uniters not dividers, they sure have a screwed up idea of what uniting is. Republicans also seem to think that they have the corner on morality, and that all Democrats are bad people. You know, not all of us support what Al Gore is doing now, in fact, I personally think he should concede now for the good of not only the country but the Democratic party as well, and let Mini-Me (my new nickname for Baby Bush) suffer through the next four years from a tainted election, and then we can win everything back in 2002 and 2004. And not all Democrats define themselves according to the way Bill Clinton lives.
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