Gore Is Running for Martyr in Chief

If his lawyer, David Boies, can break one of the majority five away to join the dissenting four and thus order the recount to resume, then Gore has the big prize. Because –

So, provided he finally goes ahead

But if those "ifs" do not materialize, and the conservative-leaning Supreme Court ends the recounts, then Gore wants to be martyr in chief.

Gore wants it plain and clear that the Republicans and conservatives are the ones scared to death of counting votes. This is red meat to Gore’s Democratic Party/labor base – and sets him up with numerous emotional issues for future runs for public office.

Plus, there is one other wild card certain to appear: The media and other interested parties are going to count these votes in the weeks and months ahead. They will probably pool together into a supposedly non-biased organization – along the lines of the Voter News Service – and share the enormous cost of physically doing a full recount of Florida. This will probably occur in the winter/early spring.

If that result shows Gore actually won Florida, can you imagine the outcry? Can you see the constant press barrage on the newly installed President G.W. Bush during the time normally set aside for a ‘political honeymoon’?

And can you see the smile on Gore, the martyr in chief, as he preps a return to public life?

By not counting the votes, the U.S. Supreme Court – especially Justices Scalia and Thomas, who were personally vilified by Gore during the campaign – may give the presidency to Bush. But, in the long run, they will be alienating half the nation, arming Gore with a passionate army that never before felt that strongly about him, and undermining Bush’s legitimacy and thus his presidency.

"Payback’s a bitch" may apply in the short run for Justice Scalia. But justices of the U.S. Supreme Court should stay out of partisan elective politics. Power in our system comes from the people directly to the elected representatives, who then appoint the judiciary and the members of the executive branch.

There is no "higher" branch of government than those who are directly elected by the American voter.

Many, many NewsMax readers are pro-life and condemned the Supreme Court’s ‘activist’ involvement in the abortion issue back in 1973. How many critics of that ‘judicial activism’ are today going to applaud similar meddling – only this time by so-called ‘conservative’ justices?

No, we should want minimal judicial involvement in our lives – and in our elections.

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