Should Al Gore run in 2008?

:shrug:

I like Al, but I am just nervous there might be a repeat of what transpired before and he might not pick good handlers.

any favors last time, though he won anyway ...

candidate in 2000. He was my top choice in 1988 (he'd have done MUCH better than Dukakis) and I was thrilled when Bill Clinton picked him as VP. That said, I'd MUCH prefer a fresh face-no Gores, Cintons, Bushes, Doles....lets be America again and let a new family run things! The Feingolds! The Clarks! The Kucinichs! The Warners! The Edwards! Lets just find SOMEONE new to be our face in 2008.

. . . I mean "hell yes" doesn't even come close to how strongly I feel Gore needs to run.

He will be the REAL Al Gore .. without 'handlers'.....

I also think he will NOT throw his hat into the ring himself, but will be drafted by party faithful ....

Hey ... I can dream ...... right ?

You must have a horse in this race already. Seems every Gore thread I read lately there you are, spewing whatever right-wing talking point seems to fit best.

It's not just getting old, it's making you boringly predictable, FYI.

Julie

They snarked on him in 2000. They were smug and confident in their hipster disdain of him. He was "wooden"! His wife wanted to ban The Music! He was patrician! He personally oppressed the U'we Indians! There wasn't a Nickel's Worth of Difference between him and Bush!

Then history proved Gore right and proved his detractors wrong.

Real wrong.

This is why we see many born-again liberals like Mo Dowd, Don Imus, and Howard Altman still trashing Gore. They're trying to justify what they did in 2000. Trying to convince everybody that their "conscience" is so much more conscientious than anyone else's. And mainly, trying to avoid the (perceived) humiliation of having to admit being wrong.

Of course, this isn't what motivates everyone who hates Gore. Some people just don't like him for "whatever". But in politics, most of this kind of antipathy comes from having been wrong and trying to hide it.

We are in a very good stage of political history in many ways. For one thing, the Democratic Party has plenty of excellent statesmen and women, its first generation of giants in a long, long time.

But Al Gore towers above them all.

--p!

I was apprehensive about Clinton in 1992. But when Clinton selected Gore to run with him, it calmed all of my apprehensions and concerns. I dare say, a lot of people took a second look at Clinton after he selected Gore because Gore was more a known entity to people because of his own previous run for the White House. Al Gore rocks!

I also believe the B.S. you hear from the MSM about the new "Al Gore" and "why was he not as passionate then", "he listened too much to his handlers" is nothing but a white wash of their own culpability in slandering him, camouflaging Bush's deficiencies and the selling of their own souls.

Dems should throw down. And may the one who sides with anti-corruption and open government win.

I like Gore and two other potential candidates. I can see those Dems, with the best interest of the country & the party running, positive primary campaigns without the need to destroy the other candidates. Then there are other pro-corporate/closed government potential candidates that,imo, wouldn't think twice about destroying other Dem candidates--and the party.

Think about that. He lost to a man who is quite possibly the stupidest man ever to run for the office.

Gore? No thanks.

Think about that. :spank:

... besides the fact that Gore received more popular votes, do you really REALLY believe, deep down, that he "lost" Florida?

Gore already won once, and I seriously doubt any Gore voters would not vote for him again, especially against any repuke. Then there are the Nader voters, who were blamed for Gore's "loss." How many people who voted for Nader in 2000 are going to vote repuke or 3rd party in 2008?

Are you working from the short or long list of reich-wing talking points on Gore? Just curious>

Julie

Gore had more votes.

Back to History 101 with you.

proof that he lost? Definitive proof?? Please share it with us.

AL GORE 2008!!!

Add Wes Clark to the ticket and they would sweep the South!

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AL GORE 2008!!!
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Robert F. Kennedy was a callous, unprincipaled political hack and enforcer for his more famous brother John. Martin Luther King was an unserious playboy middle class preacher's son preacher, so uninterested in theology that he plagarized part of his dissertation. Franklin Roosevelt was a rich, spoiled man of privilege who played at politics.

But Bobby Kennedy was transformed by seeing his brother murdered and by touring Appalachia. Martin Luther King, elected to head the Montgomery bus boycott and shocked by death threats, was trying to figure out how to get out of his leadership position without being thought of as a coward, when he was transformed by a near nervous breakdown, and redemption through prayer during his famous "kitchen conversion." And FDR was stricken by polio and transformed into a champion of the sick, poor, downtrodden and discriminated against people of America.

I was never a fan of Al Gore until the 2000 election was stolen from him. Like the crises faced by King, Kennedy and Roosevelt, that crisis and the constitutional crisis that Bush has plunged the country into, has transformed Gore.

You really have to hear Al Gore's speeches today to understand just what a blazingly different person he has become. Right now, I really believe he is the only person who can save this country.

Great leaders aren't born; they are the result of personal transformations forged in crises. Al Gore has become a great leader.

:thumbsup:

We are going to need a smart and experienced wonk (Gore) to fix the disaster left by the chimp.

excellent stuff :toast:

There is no one I can think of I'd rather see run for pres. And I would be so much more into him running than I was in 2000. He's changed or rather, I believe, he's let himself be more of himself these last few years. And I like it!

RUN, AL, RUN!!!!! America NEEDS you!!

I would be ecstatic if he ran again. :)

...I believe it's vitally important that he does.

He's my guy!

Sorry but he's nothing more than a good actor playing his part.
I'm convinced that by the time these people get close enough to the presidency they've already been made.
He played his part in 2000 and now he's back. And people STILL, after all we've seen, people STILL believe there is a choice. BULLSHIT.

<b>I'm convinced that by the time these people get close enough to the presidency they've already been made.</b>

Ditto.

But, I still want Gore to run. We're not going to do an better, IMHO, unless people take to the streets and revolt. Which ain't gonna happen.

the 64 billion dollar question.

He's the only viable candidate, in my mind.

Gore, Kerry, Clinton, Kucinich, Adam Sandler...it doesn't matter who ends up the candidate. They won't fight for the causes that mean anything to voters, and they won't defend themselves against the Republican hate machine.

Already, they're attacking Kennedy about his vote fraud article, he isn't running, and he's allowing the monkey feces to cover him without a protest. He's the warmup for the traditional Republican lynching of the Democratic candidate.

Frankly, I think the Democratic Party should refuse to nominate anyone for President this time around. Let the party's candidate be "None Of The Above." At least the Republicans will look stupid digging up scandals to use against None of the Above.

but Yes, Al should run.

Not the New Yorker, and not the New York Times Magazine, it's just called New York. Gore's on the cover, and there's a great interview inside. It's making me take another good hard look at who Mr. Gore has become today.

1. Gore has actually been chosen once already.
2. He has, in the past 6 years, honed his political persona to a brilliant shine.
3. As an environmental policy wizard, he is positioned to lead in the most important issues at this point in the history of the earth (no, not Terra, you ninnies!) - Peak Oil, sustainable ag and energy, and worldwide cooperation to save this, our only home.
4. He's a real mensch. I'd like to have a beer with this guy, wouldn't you?