Have No Fear – Al Gore is Here!
From U. S. News and World Report:
Is Al Gore coming back? If allies we talked to have their way, the former veep will be the next president. “It’s Gore Time,” says a political strategist and fundraiser who is opening a bid to get Gore into the race. Gore friends see his recent political and business moves as proof he’s preparing to run. Allies say that in speeches, Gore has found his voice to address domestic and world issues. And in raising money for his Current TV network, which targets the critical youth market, Big Al has built an issue base and donor network that’s competitive with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton ‘s. Our source–a top aide in the previous Bush administration–is planning meetings with Gore’s team to push an early entry while Clinton runs for re-election in New York. It doesn’t end there: The Gorebots want him to pick Sen. Barack Obama, the youthful Illinois African-American, as his No. 2.
In other news, Satan has a new pair of ice skates…give me a break! Gore has no – none – nada – zero chance, and probably even less than that. And that reminds me…look for some changes on the candidate odds very soon…
Watch this guy. Have you seen him speak lately? He’s passionate and has cast off the “vote for me because you hate Republicans so much” strategy of the DNC. He’s actually making points, rarely mentioning Republicans at all, and he is speaking very well.
Everyone is complaining that all the Dems do these days to try to get elected is to bash Republicans. They say the Dems have no ideas of their own, other than the fact that they disagree with Republicans. All true. But I think Gore may have heard the call, and may be stepping up to the plate.
I think he may be one of the few that realizes that toe-ing the party line of the DNC isn’t helping anyone these days. I think a Gore/Obama team could be a formidable threat.
I’m not making any predictions. But don’t toss him off to the side too quickly.
We’ll see…I don’t think Al Gore has any credibility to speak of with either activists or mainstream Democrats…but I’ve been wrong before…
I don’t see how he has anywhere near the issues credibility that HRC has, and she annihilates him in the charisma department. (Although John Kerry is about the only sentient being who wouldn’t whup AG in charisma–talk about a steel cage death match of Cigar Store Indians I and II!). I mean after all, our opinions don’t count. If you were a Dem, who would you put your faith in: Hillary or Al?
If Hillary self-destructs, Gore has a real chance. Not a “good” chance, but more than a longshot.
You’ve normally got the insight in spades, MC, but we’re gonna hafta agree to disagree here.
Nixon.
He burned a LOT more bridges than Gore has so far. And in 1965, the last year it was possible for LBJ et al. to pretend all was hunky-dory, he probably seemed like a hell of a long shot too.
Now, peoples, hopefully you know I’m not saying the analogy holds.
I’m not saying we’re headed into similar straits, because it doesn’t seem that way; but of course, it didn’t seem that way then, either.
I’m just saying: never say never.
And admit it: Nixon was creepy sort of in the way that Gore was creepy. Liberals probably feel about Gore the way conservatives felt about Nixon: the brilliant but crazy nephew who seemed to have a fear of success.
Okay, obviously I’m outnumbered here…I think Gore has a better chance than Kerry, how’s that?…
Gore:brilliant::Kerry:war hero
Gore 29%, MCCain 57%.
Gore 32% Giuliani 55%.
(A steaming turd 43%, Al Gore 52%.)
http://www.pollingreport.com/2008.htm
It is not like he is an unknown. Nixon, a twice elected President, compared to a loser?
Never.(As in, he will ‘never’ be nominated by any party, unless they drop acid at a political convention and they take write-ins for “that crazy guy”.
“Have you seen him speak lately?” I’m sure that if he ever thought of running, we’d be seeing a tape of him sweating out a speech. Screaming it out, actually. The man lost his mind in 2000…to never recover. A sad man who believed himself to be smarter than he was.
I had gone on record months ago arguing Gore had a decent shot at the nomination, assuming Hillary falls apart. My theory was that in the absence of any obvious alternative (all the Bayhs, Warners and other perceived moderates are interchangeable right now), the Dems would lift their lowly eyes to the guy who, after all, won the popular vote in 2000 and came within a whisker of getting the job. I don’t think many Dermocrats were passionate about him during the campaign, but I think many became far more passionate about him during the long post-election fracas. I think there was a sort of “no atheists in foxholes” dynamic going on; the bitterness of the fight made people believe in Gore in a way they didn’t before.
That said, the recent Fox News poll numbers referenced above made me seriously reconsider my views. When asked the strong leader question, Gore was dead last at 27 percent yes, 65 percent no (Kerry was 35/56, which makes Gore’s numbers even more striking given that Kerry’s biggest problem was the perception that he was a flip-flopping nonleader). But even worse for Gore, when the question was put to Democrats alone, 45 percent said he is, 46 percent said he isn’t. All the other candidates got hefty spreads on that question at least among members of their own parties.
I still think it’s a possibility, precisely for the Nixonian reasons Knemon cited, and a lot would depend on who the GOP puts up. But if his fellow Democrats think so poorly of the guy, I’ve got to think the chances are a lot more remote than I initially thought.
It is a stunner.
He did win the popular vote. As I watched for 36(?) days, waiting for the next President, I too had assumed that Bush v. Gore would be coming in 2004…
The plan was simple-tell the ‘greens’-86,000 in FL, who voted for Nader, that elections are about selecting the lesser of two evils. He was poised to be the leader of the Democratic Party, wearing his popular vote as a badge of honor.
But Gore went insane…the end.
HAR HAR
Gore has a blog! Funny stuff!