The Bush Family Two-Step
As we've discussed on 2GL before, Nader is the unlikely darling of the GOP this year. Nowhere could Nader be a greater potential asset to President Bush's re-election effort than in sunny Florida, the land of electoral mystery. There has been a fight down there between the two major parties about whether Nader will be on the ballot this November.
And the Democrats won ... at least temporarily. A Florida Circuit Court issued a temporary injunction last week preventing the state from putting Nader on the 2004 ballot, siding with a Democratic challenge.
But the administration of George Bush's little brother said not so fast. Yes, the state's courts have temporarily prohibited Florida from putting Nader on the ballot and yes, the state is required to obey the court's orders, but... Jeb Bush's folks have decided to go ahead and put Nader there on the ballot anyway. Why?
Hurricane Ivan changed (or has the remote possibility of changing) everything.
Jeb seems to have learned a valuable lesson from his big brother. It's the Bush Family Two-Step: (1) Do whatever you please - start elective wars without planning anything, laugh off judicial orders, etc.; (2) find a national tragedy to take the blame for it.
Keep dancin' boys. We're not buying it.
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