All We Are Saying Is Give Al a Chance
Here’s some stuff to read instead of working this morning:
The Carpetbagger Report tells about the newest way to earn credit at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary: homemaking classes. The MRS degree—it’s not just a metaphor anymore.
Political Animal explores the possibility of a brokered GOP convention next year. Can’t anybody here play this game?
Bill O’Reilly says something monumentally stupid. (In other news, sun rises in east; man bitten by dog.) Glenn Greenwald points out how stupid.
And it was announced this morning that Al Gore won (shared, actually) the Nobel Peace Prize. The coast-to-coast right-wing squawking will be audible even without a radio.
There was a poll at Daily Kos yesterday asking if readers would switch their current allegiance if Gore entered the Democratic presidential race. I have been a draft-Feingold/weak-Edwards/anybody-but-Hillary man for quite a while, but if Gore were to get in, I think I’d probably switch—if I could be sure that the courageous and eloquent Gore of 2001 to the present was going to be the candidate, and not the timid Gore of 2000. He wouldn’t be the instant front-runner—I read somewhere the other day that a poll in Iowa shows he’d be about even with Obama in Iowa right now, well behind Hillary, if he got in. Will he get in? His spokesman says he’s making no plans but hasn’t ruled it out, either.
I believe he won’t run. The race is too far along and the money is too much locked up for him to make a dent. But as we have seen in the last several years, the bar for weirdness isn’t nearly as high as it used to be, so how about this? In ‘08, a drafted Gore faces the compromise candidate of a brokered Repug convention: Joe Lieberman. That’s entertainment.
Posted: October 12th, 2007 under Gore, Hillary, Obama.
Comments: 6
Comments
Comment from Max von Schuler-Kobayashi
Time: October 12, 2007, 7:48 am
I have always liked Al Gore. When the 2000 election results were disputed, it Al Gore who was saying let the law take it’s course. The Shrub was jumping up and down like a kid saying “I won I won I won”
My guess is that there were some threats and thuggery involved.
Comment from Josh Hammond
Time: October 12, 2007, 2:47 pm
I’ve never liked Al, but he sure does look like the only one who can stop The Wife. Al and Obama would be the ticket, but Al and Richardson would not be bad either.
If Al entered, it would be a longer primary race. He would splinter the early primary votes and deny Hillary an early on delegate rush. It would be great to see a brokered Democratic convention, in both parties. Now that would energize the electorate!
Comment from timr
Time: October 13, 2007, 10:15 am
fuggetaboutit. Al Gore will not run for prez. 1) it is to late, he does not have the state by state organization. 2) Why on earth would he want to subject himself to the vitriol of the MSM and the pundocracy 3) by not stating firmly that if selected he will not run, and if elected he will not serve, he continues to get MSM coverage of what he does care about. Face it, the coverage that he enjoys today would be gone in a new york minute, if he stated what is obivious to most people, so he leaves that tiny window open, and the MSM continues to cover what he says about gobal warming. For him, this is a win-win situation. I heard him say,within the past couple of days, that he thought that the current crop(sounds like a field of corn, no?) of dem candidates is very very good. The only thing to wonder is, who will Al endorse.
Comment from timr
Time: October 13, 2007, 10:28 am
oh, and the last reason that Al will not run is, in the last polls he gets less than Obama, and about the same, or less than, Edwards. So, looking at that, why would he run? This years, and next years, campaign is so totally fisked, all the state primaries will be over and done with by late march. So 1-why have a convention in aug/sep and 2-what on earth will the 2 candidates do for those several months when they have won the nomination, but have not yet had the convention? Well maybe the repigs will not have picked their candidate, but it still holds, what on earth are they all going to do?? Latest rumor is that NH will move their primary to Dec. Then what, will all the states make a mad rush to have their state earlier? The only solution that I can see is to divvy up the country into 4 areas, and have the position of each rotate every 4 years, so each area of the country gets to be first. They have to do something, the system, as it now stands, can not continue. Look what most of the dem wannabes have done already. All, except for Clinton, have dropped out of Mi., and the dem party says that they will not honor the fla delegates. This looks to me, like a good way for the dems to bite off their nose to spite their face. You piss off enough casual voters, then the other party wins by default. Crazy crap.
Comment from I.B.Lever
Time: October 14, 2007, 10:05 am
http://www.hbo.com/scripts/video/vidplayer.html?movie=/av/billmaher/season5b/b_maher_ot_9_21+section=billmaher+num=1190829415718+title=Real%20Time%20with%20Bill%20Maher%3A%20Overtime%2009%2F21%2F07+tunein=Live!%20Fridays%20at%2011:00%20ET%20PT
Comment from Bob
Time: October 19, 2007, 9:37 pm
I really thought Al Gore would give it a shot and try to pull the Democrat version of a Nixon, namely run again 8 years after losing (winning, actually :)). There is still tons of money out there and he could even swoop in on so-called pledged money. I just don’t know…..
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