Posted on 03/20/2015 3:55:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sure, he’s a bit of an eccentric. He ran for the White House as a sitting vice president and lost. His finances are complex, his cable news venture failed, and his storybook marriage ended in divorce long ago. But he’s a single-issue candidate, and it just happens to be an issue that appeals to progressives perhaps more than any other.
What’s more, the Draft Al Gore movement had some influential backers in the progressive community. “Gore cares enough about what comes next that he literally titled his last book The Future,” wrote Vox.com founder Ezra Klein. “But if he is really so obsessed with the future, then running in 2016 is his best chance to change it.”
Indeed. If Gore had a conscience and is honest about his convictions, as Klein suggests, he would recognize his responsibility to posterity and to the nation’s most fringe progressives to mount a primary challenge to Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately for Klein, Gore’s allies indicated today that he lacks an appreciation for his place in history, although he maintains an abiding respect for his speaking fees.
Via MSNBC.com:
Carter Eskew, who ran the advertising and messaging team for Gore’s 2000 campaign and remains in contact with the politician-turned-climate change advocate, flatly shut down the notion. “[H]e is neither doing nor thinking anything about running,” Eskew said in an email.
“I have no indication this is real,” said longtime Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, who was a top strategist on Gore’s 2000 campaign. “I think it’s a media creation.”
Indeed, Gore himself has given no indication he’s interested in a return to politics. He’s become a wealthy businessman, author, and advocate and has avoided weighing in on politics outside the handful of issues he deeply cares about, including climate change.
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Algore doesn’t need that pain in the butt job ,he has his own ,LOL
He CANNOT ever run, as he would have to explain the rationale for his political positions - which CANNOT be done.
He needs to control the questions or he falls like a house of cards.
It sounds like Big Al could not take the cut in pay.
He’s having too much fun with his GoreBull warming scam.
What happened to Hillary???? ;)
His finances would never pass.
“Help us Obi Gore. You’re our only hope.”
Re Klein and “if Gore had a conscience”. Boy is that a good one.
Gore has never had a conscience, only a Greed Gene and a powerful Daddy Warbucks. Besides that, he’s dumb as dogshit other than being a great con-artist. (Emphasis for the future being “CON(VICT)”.).
Klein is a Gore clone - a Marxist-lite to the core and factually dumb as dogshit though people seem to think he writes well and actually says something rational. He is to journalism as Julius Streicher was.
I hope he doesn’t run, because he would probably win! (sad to say)
After seeing our country elect someone like 0-Vomit....TWICE, anything is possible.....
wow when Al Bore is your last hope.. you are in pretty bid do do !
lol
The Obama came out of nowhere and won.
Wrong.
Better: Sure, he’s a bit of a con artist.
Please don't bother her just now. She's busy deleting, and then shredding, files on her personal server. Those things take time, and one's full attention.
Aaaw-dang (snaps finger)
Algor is a pig, E I E I O.......
A bit eccentrics? He is a raving freakin loon!
I think his Depends couldn’t handle the fatso’s load.
Algore doesn’t want to risk getting beat. He wants to go on being the guy who was robbed. He can ride the celebrity of that the rest of his life.
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