Angry Left

The Extreme Left

Commentary for Friday 03/16/2007 Those Uncivil Democrats

The Rabid Left: Maybe Rabid is a little too extreme, but reading the comments by the liberal left on their websites, leaves the impression of people out of control. Posts by the left show complete disregard for facts, civility, and display an extensive knowledge of 4 letter expletives. How is it that ordinary people will allow themselves to be such extremophiles?

Rooted in Election 2000: The legal battles in Florida over the 2000 election are fertile grounds for the recruitment of a lot of the unrest. Few of these left-wing followers actually understood what the legal wrangling in Florida was all about, so they just believe what they are told by those wanting to stir up trouble. Al Gore won the National popular vote and therefore in the minds of the radical left, he should be President. The problem with the popular vote-takes-all is that the United States has an elector system. Each state has a certain number of electoral votes and the candidate who wins the majority of electoral votes becomes President. Electing the President this way was carefully crafted to prevent densely populated regions from dominating the rest of the country. Without this kind of control, a candidate would just have to win the vote in the high population states to have a victory, and everybody else could go suck an egg because their wishes could just be ignored. The Electoral College is there to make sure that any candidate will also have to win some of the lesser-populated states in order to win.

Florida 2000: Florida's election was very close but George Bush legitimately won Florida. Al Gore wanted a hand recount in selected counties, but not the whole State. There were a lot of ballots that had been uncounted by the vote counting machines for various reasons, most were because there appeared to be 2 selections or more for President and therefore disqualifying the ballot. Then there were a lot of ballots that were not completely punched, making the counting machines not count the vote. In several of these not punched ballots, there were indications of the voter intent and was referred to as a 'pregnant' or 'dimpled' chad. More on the 'pregnant' chad ballots later. It was Al Gore's cherry picking where he wanted hand recounts, and the zeal of the party faithful trying to divine the voter intention with the ballots which had 'damaged chads' and 'hanging chads' and too many punches that finally stopped the hand recounts. The Supreme Court did the only thing they could do that would preserve the integrity of the vote. There was no way to determine if a voter actually voted for the wrong candidate, and if they did, what was the intention of the voter. The Democrats wanted to assume that the votes cast for Pat Buchanan were actually votes for Al Gore, but there really wasn't any way to know that. As an American, I don't want the votes to be assumed to be for any particular candidate.

After the Supreme Court: It was after all the legal wrangling that various news media undertook the task of recounting the Florida Ballots. Those 'dimpled and pregnant' ballots were counted because there was clear indication of voter intent. The others, it was just not possible to accurately discern the voter intent. The result of several recounts still had George Bush winning Florida. Not by much, but he won. That brings us back to Al Gore. The nation was ripped apart over the Florida debacle, and the defeated Al Gore could have done a lot by declaring that he was satisfied with the election with which he lost. But took the sore loser rout instead. He felt cheated, and having won the popular vote, it must have been a bitter pill to swallow. At any rate, he did nothing nor said anything that would heal the rip in this country. Extreme leftist used the 2000 election to scoriate Bush as a usurper, and illegitimate President. They seethed, and no one from the left would tell them any different.

Fast Forward to 2004: Howard Dean saw what had happened and tapped into the anger of the left. He was able to raise a lot of money and was even proclaimed the front runner early on in the primary season. Dean's voice added fuel to the fire of these voters who by now hated Bush. Dean was able to exploit the war in Iraq, and with the help of the McCain-Feingold campaign reform act, was able to use the Internet to great effect. His Internet use became the model for what was to become the Left-Wing Blogosphere. It is on these websites that you find the hate-speech and vulgarity vented towards both George Bush and this country. To these leftists, everything that is wrong in the world is either the fault of Bush or the United States. Somebody should make Al Gore have to read these posts just so he can see what his tantrum over losing the election in 2000 has given birth to.

Influencing Congress: The extreme left has the Democrats in the Congress on the run. Democratic Congressmen fear being on the receiving side of hate from the extreme left if they don't do as the left demands. It has actually become a game of extortion for those Democrats who need the extreme left to stay in office. A sad affair!

We Can Do Better: The extreme left, although the Democrats now, should stand up to this group, but they haven't the stomach to do it. It will ultimately take a resounding defeat of the Democrats to stop those on the extreme left.

Robert welcomes your comment to this or any other of my commentaries.

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