Word: camped
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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What are you so frightened of, the Gore camp challenged--that a full recount would reveal what we have argued all along? That Gore won not only the national popular vote but the Florida vote as well? That Jeb Bush is not a controlling legal authority after all? That all those Cabinet tryouts were a little premature? What we are frightened of, the Republicans countered, is a system in which deadlines come and go at the whim of a partisan court, in which fallible vote counters are asked to read minds, in which statutes and procedures and timetables and traditions...
Perhaps the Gores and Liebermans should see that film, with its talismanic title, on their next double date. In the Gore camp, the latest "psychic blow," as an adviser called it, plunged the Vice President's team back into darkness. They fretted that media opinion had just been turning their way, that with the call to count the votes being heeded, Gore would finally look like a winner. And then the counting stopped. "People aren't in a good mood," says a senior adviser. "Conventional wisdom can gel against...
...that every Florida county tabulate or recount its undervotes. The ruling had Gore partisans extolling the noble tradition of an independent Judiciary--the one actor, in a state run by Republican Governor Jeb Bush and Republican ally Katherine Harris, free to do the right thing. But to the Bush camp, the Florida justices were just liberal power grabbers, intent on overturning a certified election result favoring the Republicans. Florida house speaker Tom Feeney blasted a renegade court, "more partisan than judicial...
...hours, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in with a bitterly divided blockbuster of its own: a 5-4 order directing the Florida canvassing boards to halt the recounts. Once again, the reaction was divided and partisan, but flipped in a fun-house mirror. This time, it was the Bush camp's James Baker saying it was "very, very gratifying" that the U.S. Supreme Court had "indicated a willingness and an interest in hearing this very, very important case." And it was the Gore campaign charging that a court was trying to hijack the will of the people...
What will happen? The U.S. Supreme Court stay was certainly a major blow to the Gore camp. But Republicans who think it's all over may be celebrating too soon. Predicting how Supreme Court Justices will vote is, even in mundane times, a perilous game. Conservatives have sometimes been disappointed by Kennedy, who has voted with liberals on issues like gay rights and school prayer. And right-to-lifers once counted on O'Connor to provide a fifth vote to overturn the abortion protections of Roe v. Wade, something she has resisted...