What if Gore ran as a Green in 2008?

Besides blowing the expert pundits right out of the water, what do you think would happen?

Terrible Idea!!

......Gore would blow both parties right out of the water.

Besides, dems should BE green!

Democratic operatives.

If he jumped ship, they would be unlikely to jump with him. They'd likely stay with the Democratic scaffolding that brung 'em to the dance.

That's not to say that Gore wouldn't attract many Green votes -- and that would be ironic because many Greens' loyalty to Nader AGAINST Gore in 2000 is still an open wound for many.

Gore is going to be very formidable as a Democrat.

(with Duke Cunningham on the bottom half of the ticket).

Gore would only split Dem. votes as a Green I would think. We need a Repub. to go Libertarian or someone that would split the Repub. vote.

pretty equally. We need a Jesus Party or Anti-gay party or something.

There is nothing in his character that would have him go against his history and belief system.

Maybe he'd ditch it.

Sometimes I have my doubts as to who really controls our party. Democratic voters or DC insiders with mafia ties.

he'd never do it and he'd never win.

who'd get maybe ten votes total. (She's lost all credibility IMHO by trying to appeal to the Right wing by taking a pro-war stance, showing she has no beliefs other than that she wants to be popular with 51% of the electorate. The party hacks would support her, and no one else would if the choice was between her or Gore.)

The Repugs would go with McCain in an attempt to separate from the Bush meltdown in popularity, but he'll fail to fire up Bush's former base OR the few remaining "sane" Repubs. I'd predict token Repub turnout.

Gore would then win in a landslide.

and in the process he would put another Republican in the White House.

A true democrat wouldn't do it.

If you split the democratic base between a democratic and green candidate and the republicans vote for one candidate - of course the republicans win!

otherwise Dems might win!!

would we go and split our vote?

Left wing progressive Dems are 21%. 40% Are moderates (many of them may be Dems at this point and some probably always vote Dem). And 30% are of course hard core baser-instinctives.

So really - you can run away with part of that 21%.. many, many will stay in the big tent. So if you run away with 10% of the Dem vote and start your own party.. why would you do that?

Might as well ask that question, given that it's just as likely.

It would guarantee that the Repugs would win because the progressive vote would be split.

Especially if he ran against Nader for the Green nomination... I think they'd be a good ticket either way though. It might also cause the Dems to lose another Presidential campaign. That is, of course, unless the Conservatives start a third party and run their guy.

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He could unify the true Democrats plus push aside Hillary in the process. He is no longer beholden to the corporate fatcats who have wormed their way into the Democratic Party (see DLC!). He should have shown the passion and fight he has now in 2000! He would have beaten Chimp Boy hands down. I would want him to run to upstart Hillary's quest for the nomination. A nomination for Hillary would be a recipe for disaster for the Democrats. You know it and I know it!


John

He wouldn't win and there will be a Republican president

If we can be certain of anything, it's that Al Gore will never abandon the Democratic Party.

He believes very strongly in the party and he also believes in the primary process.

Gore believes that once the primaries are over - everyone has to get behind the nominee.

If Gore runs again then you can be sure it will be on the Democratic ticket.

If not then he will actively campaign in support the Democratic ticket - just like he did in 2004.

He worked very hard for John Kerry, even though he had supported Howard Dean in the primaries.

In Gore We Trust
www.algore.org :)

Right man, right ideas, wrong campaign in a rigged field that would enjoy another gaffe enabling a GOP continuance. If running with the Greens is a real choice then running with the Dems is better, as the situation stands now. Ten years of changes and the possibilities could be quite different, since Gore is a real natural choice for Greens as opposed to Nader. It would be the first time there would not be a third party that was the cult or brainchild of the lead candidate(Perot, LaFollette, Wallace, TR Roosevelt) and nothing else after. Both parties imploding seems incredible but they sure are trying hard by trying hard to fail. Others joining with Gore would seem to be a natural response to mankind's real worst crisis. The subsequent collapse of capitalism as we know it might even engender a mutated variation of a socialist party or the reactionary extremism of a real Nazi party.

Political sci-fi like "The DaVinci Code" is theological sci-fi. At the moment anyway.

he might finish in 2nd at best. But there would be a Repub Pres.

In the end we'd have another Republican in the White House.

Too many people are so stuck on the 'D' label, in some regards with good reason in our two-party/one corporate master system, that even if this Jesus guy were around today, the vote would be split.

It seems to me that one would be casting a vote Against the Democratic party, not FOR Gore.

. . . *and* the Democratic nominee. Both parties should get behind him.