Sandra Day O'Connor's Second Thoughts On The 2000 Bush v. Gore Decision

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She's worried about the reputation of the court.  Stuff like this is why the right cannot win this game.  That's because the left is never worried about reputation.  Since when did the left ever worry about the reputation of the court?  They are reliably left, the right gets wobbly.

The courts are political.  She's worried that it appears political.  More accurately, she's worried about being seen as political when the left never worries about this.

You see, the way the cards are stacked, the right figures that it has to gain the left's approval of whatever it does.  This will never happen.  In the end, the right will do what the left wants because the left intimidates and bullies them into it.   If they had the backbone, this wouldn't happen.

Bush v Gore was decided rightly.  It was a tie and the court broke the tie.  If it wasn't decided the way it was, Bush would have become president anyway, or unless of course, the Republicans were so weak they let the Democrats just steal it outright.  Bush would have won because the Republicans had the House.  They had the Florida legislature.  They had the Supreme Court.  No way Gore could have won that and the Democrats had to know that.  The only point for them to have done what they did was to discredit the Republicans and the new president.  It was done out of spite.

All of the cards were in favor of the Republicans.  They played their cards right.  The Democrats were only interested in getting power.  What's wrong with the Republicans doing it too?

Besides, Bush won.  Not that it really mattered all that much.  The left still seems to get what they want anyway for the reason mentioned above.  Even after standing tall in that controversy, they got Roberts in the Chief Justice chair and he looks like O'Connor with the Obamacare decision.