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"Would you like a pretzel?"
...but seriously:
"Mr. Bush, suppose that Al Gore's first cousin had been running one of the network news teams issuing election night projections in 2000. Suppose that, having previously recused himself from a columnist job, — saying his objectivity would suffer from family loyalty — this cousin had chatted with Gore six times on election day. Suppose that the same cousin had been first to declare Gore as the winner in Florida on election night, helping coax the rival networks to follow suit, leading you to call up Gore in order to concede, thereby helping create a presumption that Gore was the duly elected president of the United States long before all the votes had been counted. Suppose that there were many, many missing and unaccounted for ballots, and that almost all of them were from Republican areas. Say 280,000 voters were accidentally purged from the system because of an error in a system intended to disallow felons from voting. Say that the Supreme Court, stacked with justices by Gore's father, a previous president, stepped in and announced that Gore was the winner. Would you have allowed President Gore to become president?"
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