Clearly, the Democrats are never going to recover from Al Gore's loss in 2000. It's almost as much of a trauma to them as the atrocities of 11 September. Maybe even more so.
One strong indication of this stress disorder is their constant reference to that election as an illegitimate coup; something that George W. Bush stole with the help of his brother, the Florida State Police, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Freemasons, and the Trilateral Commission. You can't convince a Democrat that the election wasn't rigged or conferred upon Bush by judicial fiat, no matter how many times the truth is demonstrated to them.
The sorriest thing about the election of 2000, though (besides the fact that it exacerbates their hatred of the President), is that they still use it divisively. The Democratic elite still preys upon their base's distorted memory of those events and uses them to fan the flames. Here, for example, are some of Gore's closing remarks at the Democrats' recent "Unity Dinner" (as taken verbatim from the algoredemocrats.com website):
[...] I want to ask all of you to consider, just for a moment, what it was that happened in the election year of 2000. I want you to remember - - briefly - - how you felt after the voting was over with, and all of that long thirty six day period began, leading up to the Supreme Court decision. Do you remember what you were going through during that time?
(Shouts of "Yes!")
Gore could just as easily be speaking to himself ---or to all Americans who were subjected to his and his Party's desperate and destructive legal manuevers.
Do you remember watching on television and talking to your friends and wondering how it was going to come out? Do you remember what you felt when the Supreme Court handed down its decision the case called "Bush versus Gore"?
(Indistinguishable shouts)
I remember.
(Laughter and applause)
And I want you - -
(Indistinguishable shouts)
- - I want you to remember for one simple reason. Every time since then that you have felt that this guy that's down there in the White House now shouldn't be there because the job he's doing is hurting this country - - we heard it from his own Secretary of the Treasury; we just heard it from his own Head of Anti-Terrorism - -
(Applause)
This is irresponsible nonsense. Gore is saying that Bush shouldn't be President, the implication not only being that he was illegitimately "made" President, but that he is "hurting" the country and should be removed. Gore wants the Democratic voter to be an angry, unreflective voter. He wants him to ignore the truth about the election of 2000, ignore the sound function of the Electoral College, and ignore the legitimacy of other voters' choice. And, more, Gore uses Clarke as a weapon against the Bush White House when Clarke is at least as much a failure of the Clinton White House. Only an unfair asshole would deny that.
- - We've heard it from his own people, about how he does. Every time you have felt that he shouldn't be there, every time you have felt that you would like to get him out of the White House, I want you to draw on all that energy, and I want you to channel it in support of John Kerry to elect him the next President of the United States of America.
It's all pretty disgusting. Gore and McAuliffe and the whole sorry lot of them want to exploit people's anger and to undermine our President with seditious lies. They want to use Clarke's words and politicize the war against the terrorists. Doesn't that make them hypocrites? Where are the self-righteous survivor families of 11 September who have taken up with leftist organizations to use their loved ones' deaths to criticize the President for making a brief visual reference to the attacks in his campaign ads?
This is one reason why Al Gore is a traitor to his country. And this is also why a vote for John Kerry is a vote for those who hate America.