They'd rather stay and try to sabotage his administration and smear all his appointees. They must have felt that it was like having their own county. Now they are nervous. John Ashcraft, Bush's nominee for attorney general, is the first to get the smear job. Ashcraft, a decent, honorable and Christian man, is being attacked precisely because he is a decent, honorable and Christian man.
Democratic liberals ought to be careful.
Their idea of civility and tolerance does not extend to their political opponents. What the public saw was Democrats so desperate to hold onto power that they resorted to litigation, lies and character assassination in a vain attempt to steal the election. The Florida secretary of state, Katherine Harris, whom Democrats vilified in the most personal and abusive way, got so many bouquets of flowers from all over the country that she had to send them out to nursing homes and hospitals. In other words, it's the Democrats who are out of step with the people, not the Republicans. The more the left gnashes their teeth, whines, howls and complains, the better I like it.