If I win, I'll go to Gov. Bush's home. If he wins, I'll meet anywhere Gov. Bush wants. OK, Al's rhetoric was frilly window-dressing. But at least Gore started to lance the post-vote savagery. But the genuine test will be whether winner Gore or Bush puts together a Coalition Cabinet.
History is instructive.
John F. Kennedy did it right. After his hairbreadth 1960 win, JFK hired Republicans - Robert McNamara at Defense, Doug Dillon at Treasury, and McGeorge Bundy as foreign adviser. Richard Nixon as a narrow 1968 victor did the same. He brought aboard Democrats John Connally and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The worst move for Bush, who's been theatrically staging a premature transition, would be to assemble a Cabinet of his Daddy's Old-Timers Squad.