Gore, ‘08?
February 17th, 2008 at 06:45pm Mark Noonan
I’ve been talking ’bout this for a loooong time…now even lefty Clift is:
Al Gore on the second ballot: A scenario that a few weeks ago seemed preposterous is beginning to look plausible to some nervous Democrats looking for a way out of the deadlock between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It goes like this: We love them both, but neither is a sure bet when it comes to electability. It’s not about gender and race, each has more mundane vulnerabilities. Hillary’s negatives will drive white men to John McCain; Obama’s inexperience will require a gut check on the part of voters. What if the super delegates decide not to decide, denying either candidate the requisite number of delegates to secure the party’s nomination. Democrats want to win. The new rallying cry: Gore on the second ballot.
Not at all impossible - especially if the Obama/Hillary contest degenerates into a political knife-fight. The Goron probably stayed out to begin with because he thought that Hillary would be unstoppable - he’s gotta be kicking himself for not realising that Hillary was tremendously vulnerable to a lefty political rock star (such as Gore long has been, and Obama swiftly became). Now Gore’s refusal to endorse either of them looms large, as does his failure to entirely take himself out of the running with a Shermanesque “if nominated, I won’t run; if elected, I won’t serve” denial of Presidential ambitions.
We shall have to see…
UPDATE: Thinking about it further, a Goronic campaign might be the only thing which could be acceptable to both the Obama and Hillary wings of the Democratic party…Hillary wins, Obama-ites hate her for taking it away; Obama wins, Hillary-ites sabotage Obama…give it to Gore, and things can be patched up between the sides.
Anyways, here is more Gore speculation.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats
20 Comments
1. neocon | February 17th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
But I thought they kept telling us that they have two candidates they could all support.
Is the honeymoon over?
2. js | February 17th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
didnt he invent the internet and global warming?
3. Aaron | February 17th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Dream on.
Yes, the GOP’s last hope for not getting creamed this Nov is if there is a brokered convention. Sorry - ain’t gonna happen.
Obama will win the general in a landslide. And then we’ll finally have a government we don’t have to be ashamed of.
Wouldn’t you rather be working for America? Time to come in from the cold. Sit down, have a warm cup of cocoa…
4. bongoman | February 17th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
js: didnt he invent the internet?
Why are you bothering to repeat that falsehood? Is that the best you can do? Tell lies?
5. Kahn | February 17th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Aaron! How’s Air Ameica doing these days?
“Wouldn’t you rather be working for America? Time to come in from the cold. Sit down, have a warm cup of cocoa…”
I HOPE that this grenade won’t hurt. I HOPE that no-noe notices I’m not saying anything. I HOPE that these stupid platitudes are enough!
6. Aaron | February 17th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Khan - would you like some whipped cream with your cocoa?
Or do you just want toast?
7. SEW | February 17th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Al is , like, so yesterday. Didn’t even smoke dope as a youngster. Get real. O8bama. Be cool. Vote change!
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/02/brrrr-disappearing-arctic-ice-is-back.html
8. TiredofLibBullSh** | February 17th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
BONG-man,
Time to change your sh**……
http://www.freeaudioclips.com/music1/Sound_Effects/al_gore_internet.wav
“I took the initiative in creating the internet.”
Well, we do know it is a falsehood that he created it but it is true that he did say it.
Don’t bother responding. You can’t spin your way out of it.
9. D_A | February 17th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
TiredofLibBullSh**, who sponsored the 1988 National High-Performance Computer Act and co-sponsored the 1992 Information and Infrastructure and Technology Act?
10. Mark Noonan | February 18th, 2008 at 12:09 am
D_A,
Yeah, legislation in Congress in the 1990’s far outweighed the work done by computer scientists starting in the 1960’s…
11. Nate | February 18th, 2008 at 12:21 am
nope. it will be obama ’cause the hillary backers will vote for obama but obama backers will find voting difficult, period, if obama isn’t the candidate. too bad gore didn’t win in 2k as we’d probably not be stuck in iraq, wasted a trillion dollars, be in a recession…..
12. Kahn | February 18th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Nate, there is fear. But a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth in GDP and we’re not even close to that,
American President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “All we have to fear is fear itself.” He was talking about the fear of economic stability that was keeping the economy from recovering as we clawed our way out of depression.
But TODAY’s Democratic Party WANTS fear. They NEED fear. They have spouted so much crap via the MSM that you actually think there’s a recession. And well, there just isn’t. But the drumbeat of fear and disinformation could bring one on. Is that what you want? Your leaders seem willing to risk it.
13. Kahn | February 18th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Oh, as to Gore. He has one major stumbling block. he’s an acknowledged A-Hole. Most of the Democrat Washington crowd can’t stand him. Oh yes, Global Warming - they give lip service to THAT. But Gore? I don’t believe it.
Hey, there’s ManBearPig!
14. donttasemebro | February 18th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Letterman,Leno,Stewart, or anyone else that tells jokes for a living are hoping,wishing,maybe even praying that Gore enters the race. He definitely has Big Comedy locked up. But who else is excited about a Gore candidacy? I fully support his noble and selfless pursuit of ManBearPig. I would even watch a documentary about it. Anything to prevent Gore from completely embarrassing my party.
15. thatjerryguy | February 18th, 2008 at 11:42 am
The problem with algore deciding to run is he’ll have to debate the one issue he loves to drone on about — the junk science religion he calls global warming, I mean climate crisis. And as everyone knows, the debate is over. So what’s algore going to do, just stand there like a piece of wood?
Oh wait…
16. Almiranta | February 18th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Aaron HAS to be a nom de loony of plainjane—who else could proudly declaim such mindless blather?
And you are wrong, SEW, in saying Al “didn’t even smoke dope as a youngster”. Unless smoking vast quanities of dope while in the Army doesn’t count—what’s the cutoff date for “youngster”?
Didn’t you ever read his autobiography, where he talked about his determination to run off to Canada to avoid the draft, and how he got talked into joining the Army and volunteering for Viet Nam just to help his daddy win an election? Or the accounts of the soldiers pulled away from their units to babysit Al, to keep him out of trouble while he sat around totally baked, waiting out his year so he could go home? Their job was to keep him supplied with all the dope he wanted to smoke, and to make sure he didn’t get a booboo. (Too bad he didnd’t already know John F’n Kerry, who could have filled him in on how to turn the slightest booboo, even one that he caused himself and didn’t even bleed, into a freakin’ HERO status.)
Or. for that matter, the friends of his and Tipper’s who talked about her staying extremely high the whole time he was gone? (Though that could have been just euphoria at being spared the droning for a whole blissful year…)
I think Al is in a much better position than he ever could have been as president. He has his groupies, he has his Hollywood suckups, he has his Peace Prize, and he has near-total immunity from being held accountable to any of his cockamamie theories.
As pres, he might be asked to implement some kind of action in response to the nonsense he has some lemmings buying into, and that would be a disaster for him, calling attention to the bad science and the outright lies he has used to build his legacy.
But as Guru to the Goofy, he is rich, he is famous, and he is safe. And unaccountable, a situation invaluable to such as he.
17. SEW | February 18th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Thanks for your help. I haven’t read his autobiography and don’t plan to waste that time. Nor will I see his propaganda film. All I need there is to see him proclaim science by presenting a simple CO2 graph next to a temperature chart to recognize non science. Another cult.
But it would add more comedy to see his hat thrown in the ring. I’m all for it! Remarkable how many drink the kool-aid given by the messiah.
But that is why Carville is a Democrat, he states the Dems will by just about anything, regardless of the obvious. Promise everything, deliver nothing, then do the same the next election cycle. Works every time.
18. SteaM | February 18th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
More Gore speculation. Why do you guys still think he is going to run? He has indicated clearly that he will not run and I believe him.
Do you want him to run so you can post hateful things about him?
So far it doesn’t seem like you need an excuse to do that.
19. FmrMarine | February 18th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
steambath
There is no excuse required, to call the village idiot……..
well
an IDIOT!
20. Kahn | February 19th, 2008 at 2:05 am
SteaM - read above, I think that I, Almiranta, and SEW all said we don’t believe he would. Though SEW thinks it would be funny if he did.
Glad to see that one person knows about ManBearPig!