Gore lied to the American people when he said, during a press conference carried by all the major networks, that he would abide by the Florida Supreme Court decision concerning certification of the election and all lawsuits would be dropped. He also lied when he said there would be no lobbying of electors on his behalf and that he would not accept the vote of an elector pledged to Gov. Bush. He most absurdly lied when he stated that his actions weren't about him, but were to determine the will of the people. Imagine a Republican, any Republican, engaging in these same type of blatant, shameless, bold-faced lies. The dialectic mindset considers any and all actions permissible if carried out in the interest of winning.
Victory is everything and the means justify the ends.
Virtue exists, to the dialectician, in victory. Moral principals, intrinsically understood by most of us, are only to be applied when the opposition falls short. The dialectician himself is not constrained by such quaint prejudices as morality. The only moral good, to the dialectician, is success. I started in Florida politics.