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Gore, ‘08? Part II
February 21st, 2008 at 02:29am Mark Noonan
John Derbyshire, after surveying the rather pathetic Democratic candidates, talks up Gore:
It’s August in Denver. You have a convention hall full of party activists, nervous and weary from months of watching the party’s two candidates clawing and scratching at each other. Both those candidates are looking pretty tattered. Bill Clinton’s mistress has spilled the beans on O’Reilly, and Michelle Obama’s senior sociology thesis has come to light — the one where she let loose on the “ineradicable racism of white Americans” and called the U.S.A. “a nation founded in crime and hatred.” McCain is looking stronger than ever. The Turks are advancing on Kirkuk. Iran has lobbed a ballistic test missile far out over the Indian Ocean. The Chinese are mad as hell following the collapse of the summer Olympics the week before, as athletes refused to compete in gritty smog, and are making new threats against Taiwan. It’s a dangerous world out there, and community organizing and ed-biz wonkery are being marked down as presidential qualifications.
What to do? What to do? The party bosses are slumped in their seats, staring blankly into space, or doing job searches on their Blackberries. All is gloom and despondency.
Then … A fanfare of trumpets! A shaft of light! Into the hall rides a man on a white stallion! Stirred from their lethargy, the delegates begin rising from their seats. They start cheering and applauding. The rider reaches the podium, dismounts, and strides to the dais. The applause is deafening now. Cheers ring round the hall! Women are weeping; men are hugging each other.
Broad-shouldered and confident, his sternocleidomastoid muscle flexing and rippling, the Rescuer sweeps his powerful gaze around the hall. A hush falls. He begins to speak. As he speaks, the same though settles on every listener simultaneously: This is the one. He has always been the one. What fools we have been!
Don’t think it couldn’t happen. Don’t, in fact, think it isn’t going to happen.
Keep in mind - once the first ballot is cast at the Democratic convention, the delegates (pledged and super) are free to vote for whomever they wish. Naturally, Obama and Hillary delegates will tend to cling to their candidate, at least for a while, but if it goes more than two or three ballots with no winner, then the whole thing becomes wide open…and Gore could, indeed, be nominated from the floor and garner the nomination.
Personally, I’m not as sure as Derbyshire is about it - but given the manifest weaknesses of Obama and Hillary for the fall, Gore would be the logical choice as a far more experienced compromise candidate.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats
7 Comments
1. Christian Wright | February 21st, 2008 at 7:05 am
Here is another scenario.
A terrorist attack happens and Bush suspends the elections during this crisis. Then he suspends Congress. The next thing we know, Blackwater mercenaries are patrolling our streets. People that complain are labeled enemy combatants and are shipped to one of the many new prisons that Halliburton has been building.
There is a reason Bush supports Pakistan. He prefers their system of government.
2. steveGA | February 21st, 2008 at 8:12 am
Wow, now we’re doing fantasy posts about how Democrats are weak and Republicans kick ass! I guess reality has become too painful for you, huh, Mark?
The reality is not that Hillary or Obama is weak. The reality is that EITHER candidate has consistently drawn more voters to primaries than any and all of your Republican candidates. You know this, and it terrifies you, so you retreat to fantasies about how weak the Democrats are going to be.
Interestingly, Derbyshire seems positively giddy over Turkey invading Iraq and Iran launching ballistic missiles. I guess concern for our country and global security takes a back seat to Republican politics, huh?
3. liberalT | February 21st, 2008 at 8:54 am
i agree steve. Hence all of the absurd posts we have seen in the last few weeks. They realize they are going to lose and lose big. So they are scrambling like terrified children to salvage what ever they can by lobbing up obviously stupid posts one after another. But it doesn’t bother me. Because , as Mark likes to say, ‘we all know’ that
(1) a democrat will be in the white house
(2) democrats will control the senate and house
(3) liberals will be appointed to the supreme court
(4) we will withdraw from Iraq with a deadline
(5) we will have socialized medicine
(6) we will see the absurd bush tax cuts repealed
and its all because of how badly bush and his cronies did. They could have dominated government for the next 20 years but they screwed all away. Thanks Mark
4. Zach | February 21st, 2008 at 9:14 am
“Bill Clinton’s mistress has spilled the beans on O’Reilly,”
I’m a little ignorant as to what this means…Can someone elaborate on this?
5. neocon | February 21st, 2008 at 9:20 am
libT,
I thought post #1 was by far more absurd. Anyway, going back a few threads I proposed the following questions that you ran from, but were answered by one of your other lemmings. My question now is, how much in agreesment are you with the following answers?
15. Percy Beezer | February 20th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
1. Why did so many have to die to preserve our Constitutional rights?
Lying military recruiters duping poor uneducated inner-city kids with no hope into imperialist wars designed to enhance profits for corporations and dynastic families.
2. What does America stand for?
Imposing an idology of consumerism upon peaceful peoples in an ever expanding web of oppression. And corporations … being all … corporationie … and making money for … Bush and his … croneys!
6. Sunny | February 21st, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Percy Beezer | February 20th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
1. Why did so many have to die to preserve our Constitutional rights?
First, I am not sure I qualify as a lemming. For some who post here, I probably do. Second, I do not agree with LibT’s response. But my questions is this - at which time in history are you referring? Revolutionary War, WWI,WWII, Vietnam, Korea, Civil War, The Alamo, Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Iraq? All wars or combat that American lives have been lost? Many lives have been lost when the issue of preserving or protecting our Constitution was not relevant to the action. Not every battle has been fought to protect our Constitution. Example - Dessert Storm had nothing to do with preserving our Constitution. And frankly, your question is so vague, it is difficult to respond. Just not sure as to what you are getting at. The US has always protected its Constitution and at times men and women have died.
Question #2: What does America stand for?
It stands for freedom and the opportunity to do and achieve as much as your capabilities and desires will permit. All men are not created equal, but all of us have equal opportunities as citizens of this country to live freely to pursue a lifestyle acceptable to each of us, as long as we act within the laws of this Nation. For those who are not citizens of this country, their opportinities are not and should not be available to them. For those who step outside the legal boundaries enacted by our cities, states and nation, they too are limited, and rightly so. American gives each citizen an opportunity to pursue what s/he believes is possible in their own life. America stands for each person being responsible for their own success and “happiness” whatever that may be to each individual. It permits each of us to decide whether or not we will achieve the most we can with what God has given us, to develop character of honesty, integritiy, self-reliance and decency. Or we have the choice to believe that someone owes us, or if we are too lazy to work for it, we can take it from those who have worked for it. One can choose to live a life of crime and let our penal system support them for the rest of the lives with febel excuses as to why they chose the road of crime. Being an American means that we have the right to make choices and the choices we make determines what kind of life we will have and what kind of human being we will be during this short journey called life.
7. Sunny | February 21st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Mark, if I am going to indulge in a fantasy, it sure isn’t going to be about politicians. Come on man, you have a new bride - one would think you could spend your fantasy life on something better than this post. Sad, big guy!