1) Is it too much to ask of Kerry that he do what's best for the country once in his life?
2) You're right, Mitch, the media treatment of this is appalling, and it is enabling the Kerry camp to behave so pathetically. CBS and ABC still refuse to call Ohio, and instead spent all their time last time saying the Kerry camp is right to try to avoid 'another Florida.' What other Florida? The one where all the ballots were truly and fairly counted (except the military absentees Gore tried to throw out) and Bush won? How about another New Mexico, where in 2000 Bush lost by less that 400 highly irregular votes but chose not to sue and damage the integrity of the electoral process -- and would have lost the presidency as a result if the courts had overturned election law in Florida?
They say the Bush camp would do the same thing. Nonsense. Pete Coors conceded in the face of a tiny margin. For the Dem's being able to say the election was 'stolen' for the next four years is more important than the integrity of the process.