A few minutes ago John Kerry proved that he is a better man than Al Gore by conceding the election on a timely basis.

Of course, Kerry doesn't have a leg to stand on. Bush got more of the popular vote than any candidate has since 1988 and Kerry would have to get all of the provisional ballots and half of the military ballots in order to win Ohio. Neither will happen.

It is good of him to admit it.

Gore couldn't bring himself to do this. Taunted by his majority in the popular vote and the closeness of the Florida count, Gore kept trying to scrape together a few more votes. He never stopped to look around at what his endless quest was doing to the legitimacy of Bush's win or the nation as a whole.

A lot of liberals disliked Bush prior to the 2000 election but if Gore had conceded after the initial recount then they would have accepted him. Instead they convinced themselves that Bush had stolen the election.

Now that Bush has both a popular and an electoral win they will have to shut up about it and "MoveOn" to something else.