Re: So, What IS a Fascist, anyway? Answer: nothing but a favorite swearword of leftists.

Jeff McCann wrote:

> "chicagofan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Jonathan Ball wrote:
> >
> > > They ruled that the electoral provisions of the U.S. Constitution
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> were
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> > > being subverted by the Democrats' frivolous attempts to stall the
> > > Florida results.
> >
> > Frivolous?  Republicans filed the first law suit; which eventually
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> resulted in
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> > the USSC effectively halting the ultimate *true* counts of all
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> ballots.
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> > Overriding the Florida State SC was/is reason enough for me to
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> consider him the
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> > USSC *appointed* president.  Whether you and half the U.S. consider
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> him legally
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> > elected, matters not to me; he is NOT my president.  He holds the
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> office... period.
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> > bj
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>
> The problem with the Bush v. Gore decision is that State law, not the
> Federal law, controls the voting process, including electoral procedures
> and vote counting.  The Court's use of a specious 14th Amendment
> argument is widely viewed by most legal scholars, including the
> dissenting Justices, as laughable.  The decision was, literally,
> unprecedented.  The majority did not cite any precedent to support their
> decision.  The Supreme Court violated its own longstanding doctrine that
> it must defer to state Supreme Courts in interpreting and applying state
> laws.

Not if the state constitution, or the state court 
interpretation of it, is in conflict with the U.S. 
Constitution.

> Nonetheless, they are the Supreme Court, they have ruled, and the
> case is closed.  Like it or not, Bush is our lawful and legitimate
> President, according to law.

Right:  which means he was not appointed.

> I think it is fair to criticize and
> critique the process and the events leading to that result, but I don't
> think that the final result can be questioned.
>
> Jeff