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It
cannot be overemphasized that more than a quarter of a million
Gore-supporters in Palm Beach County managed to decipher the
demonized "Butterfly Ballot." (Alas, this disproves
the theory that being a Democrat precludes rational thought.)
As an admirer of Vladimir Nabokov, I take umbrage at this lepidopteran
animus.
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Those
who inadvertently voted for Pat Buchanan should have their suffrage
suspended pending a literacy test. (Joke.)
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Jesse
Jackson spoke in West Palm Beach against the Butterfly Ballot.
Ipso facto, the Butterfly Ballot is legitimate. (Half-joking.)
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A
pal of mine posited a correlation between the ballot-bunglers
and the inability of many Palm Beach County motorists to distinguish
a left lane from a right lane. My vehicular experience confirms
this.
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The
nineteen thousand who voted for both Gore and Buchanan might
be sending a symbolic message: pro-abortion anti-interventionists?
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Who
but babies kvetch for exemption from the expectations of citizenship?
(To modify the lyric from Grease, "Literacy is the word.")
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Who
but paternalists indulge such kvetching?
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Irving
Howe wrote of the New Left’s "politics of the kindergarten."
Those in West Palm Beach chanting "Revote!" show countercultural
puerility is alive and well.
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Robert
Wexler should receive an Oscar for blathering.
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Gore
campaign manager William Daley and attorney Kendall Coffey used
the word "disenfranchised" to describe the cognitively
impaired Palm Beach County voters. This is an insult to those
who have truly felt the caste of disenfranchisement in American
history. Let’s keep in mind that we’re dealing with a volitional
error in the voting booth—the voting booth.
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Palm
Beach County contains several excellent schools, libraries,
bookstores, and a higher education system. You’d never guess
it from this potentially pivotal idiocy.
