First, read this excellent column by Mike Kinsley. It’s worth your while.
Now down to business. Isn’t it time for the Democrats to MASSIVELY raise the volume against Republican attempts to prevent the hand recounts just ordered by the state Supreme Court? The Florida Supreme Court ordered hand recounts of undervotes not just in those three or four Democratic counties, but in every county in the state where ballots are in dispute. What is their argument on the merits against doing so? What reasons can there be aside from a fear that such a count will show that their candidate didn’t win?
(Think only counting undervotes is unfair? Here’s the Talking Points doctrine on that issue.)
Shift the argument. Let the courts go their way. What the Democrats have been lacking in the last couple weeks are well-argued political arguments. The question isn’t whether the Bushies have the legal power to stop, slow-roll, or stymie the Florida Supreme Court’s order. The question is why they want to.
And of course there’s only one answer. They want to win whether they got the most votes or not.
Simple as that.
