re: #280 stabby

He didn’t bow out, he took it to the supreme court.

I heard him on the radio today, he said that he took the supreme court decision gracefully because, and I quote “We looked into it, and there is no stage in between accepting a supreme court decision and rebellion!”

Think about it, the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land, after a Supreme Court decision, there is no place to appeal to. It’s over.

There’s the Senate, the constitution provides specifically for a procedure. (at the time it was an even split, and VP-still-standing-Gore would have been the tiebreaking vote, and… it would have been ugly, and R’s would have complained vehemently forever about doing it that way, but… IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENTIRELY LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL).

He chose not to do that because the result would have been a country even more bitterly divided than it actually is anyway — that playing every possible legal maneuver and working the rules and getting the big chair was less important to him than what that would have done to the country’s mood/tone.