Al Gore 2000 Presidential Concession Speech

Please read the text of AL Gores Concession

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/algore2000concessionspeech.html

I think today we would call this a vote your conscience speach, where you deliberately never actually say what you are supposed to say.

I bolded the most important part. You can read the rest too. At no point in his "concession" did Gore ever accept or concede that Bush had won the election. Just like 'vote your conscience' Gore gave a concession speach with out ever accepting the results of the election. He credited the Supreme Court with making its decision and the electoral college ratifying that decision. At no point does he accept that he lost the election or the election results, only the court's decision and the finality of the electoral college's ratification of that decision.

 

I'll never forget the look on W's face when Algore called him back to take back his concession. I think at first, W thought it was a joke. "He's taking it back?" he asked.

 

First of all, this would perhaps qualify as a "vote you conscious" speech if it had been given BEFORE the election.

Second, he acknowledged and accepted the court's decision, which is how the matter was decided.

This is a very weak attempt to distort history as a means of defending Trump's petulance.

 

Did he or did he not challenge the election results..

 

I think it's fair to challenge an outdated and contrived system when the popular vote goes against it, but that's just me.

We got 2 wars on credit millions dead and a massive financial crisis because of that scumbag bush and his cronies.

 

Then you have no issue with Trumps concerns... Consistency right?

 

Millions dead?!? Because of Bush?? Lol

 

I believe in democracy, and that means the popular vote. The electoral college is an outdated and ridiculous contrivance of an age where mass communication didn't exist.

 

RW children are again throwing a political temper tantrum because they cant get their way. the fact that al gore accepted the decision is pointless to a group that has lost all sense of responsibility

 

He did accept it, finally, over a month after the election and after exhausting all appeals of the results. So yeah, when he couldn't keep legally challenging it, he conceded.

 

So you don't believe in the Constitution which guaranties we do not have a Democracy. And where on earth did you ever learn that the Electoral college was derivied because of a lack of communication? You never study about the federalist papers or the creating of the constitution and balance of power between the states?

 

Gore fought tooth and nail for four weeks refusing to accept the certified results if the election. Even after the state court summarily rejected his case claiming tabulation errors. And in the end only accepted the fact he had nobfurther court actions to take. The Democrats and the left have NEVER accepted the results routinely claiming a Republican SCOTUS awarded, handed, selected him to be the President.
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The election process has been rigged by the corrupt RP/DP political class. Hence the "bipartisan" outrage directed at Trump from the establishment pols including the RNC. Americans should never accept fixed elections.

 

FL requires a recount for elections that close, it was during the recount the Supreme Court made its ruling.

 

What does that have to do with it at all.

Accepting the court's rulling is not the same as accepting the results of the election. Accepting the results of the election would be admitting thst Bush won Florida. I have never met a Democrat in my life that accepts that.

 

The recounts in the counties where the tallies were close occurred and Gore lost and THEN he filed suit. By doing that he choose that route rather than a state wide recount. And there was no statewide mechanism or standard for hand recounts. The subsequent recounts were not allowed under Florida law and the FSC could never show the SCOTUS where it got the authority to order them or to over rule the certification of the results.

 

Advocating for the popular vote isn't good. It would disenfranchise a large swath of American's by allowing presidential elections to be determined almost entirely by large metro areas like NYC, LA, & Chicago. No good.

 

We need a completely new voting method, not just a first to the finish popular vote.

 

No, I don't believe a federal republic works. It's quite clear it doesn't. The will of the people should be obeyed by those we employ.

 

He did challenge the results by definition. Which makes the left wing hypocrites.

 

Nonsense. It would force political parties to become less focused on partisanship and more focused on statesmanship. The problem now is polemics and the nonsensical divide between political ideologies. Moderation is needed, not fanaticism.

And those voters also should know the vast majority of voting that will impact their lives is primarily at the LOCAL level, not the presidency.

 

And what would Gore have done after the Twin Towers got jacked? No retaliation what so ever?

 

So you don't think Al would have gone to war after 9/11?

 

Bush won Florida by about 400 votes.

If Trump has a similar outcome, he is entitled to demand a recount.

 

Yeah, democracy. The oppression of the minority by the majority. Even if that is 50.1% to 49.9%. We live in a constitutional republic, not a democracy.