Until the other day I didn’t really care who won in Florida, and I still don’t — I just want David Boies to lose. Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t believe the more I watch this sniveling weasel in practice the more my sympathy for Microsoft increases (Boies was the lawyer responsible for the government’s case in the MS antitrust lawsuit). His mini-confrontation with Judge Charles Burton this afternoon really seemed to annoy Judge N. Sanders Sauls.
As for the case itself, Gore’s people can’t have felt good about things when Judge Sauls called Burton — the Bush campaign’s lead witness — “a great American” when he stepped off the stand. After watching how well Burton came across while describing how the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board determined the intent of voters, I would be very surprised if Gore prevailed in this trial.
The best Boies could do was whine that Burton had originally voted against doing a manual recount, only to have Judge Sauls seemingly share in Burton’s reasoning when Sauls seemed perplexed at what justification the Palm Beach County Canavassing Board had for doing a manual recount in the first place.