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An Al Gore-type is more like it
Al Gore 2008 ^ | November 4, 2004 | Richard Cohen

Posted on 11/07/2004 1:11:50 PM PST by upchuck

If you set out to create the perfect Democratic presidential candidate, you would probably choose someone from the South or the Border States, since John Kerry lost virtually the entire region on Tuesday, and someone who is comfortable talking the language of religion and values, since John Kerry was not, and someone whose wife is identified with conventional values and, last, someone who took a very early position against the war in Iraq, which John Kerry did not. Such a person already exists and, as luck would have it, has a name: Al Gore.

At a certain time Tuesday night, thoughts turned to next time. In many of the blue states, the name of Hillary Clinton was uttered with frequency and in others it was John Edwards (who has the right demographics). Not to my knowledge is anyone talking Gore - not even, according to his friends, the man himself.

Still, you have to notice that either as a generic type of politician or a real one, Gore is what his party needs. He has relocated himself from Washington to Nashville and he threw himself into the 2004 presidential campaign with commendable abandon. He endorsed Howard Dean, you will remember, but wound up campaigning for Kerry.

Significantly, he was against the war in Iraq. If the war continues, it will deepen as an issue and Gore, as Gary Hart once said about George McGovern, will be deemed "right from the start."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algore; boron; gordo; goreon; sorelooserman
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and someone whose wife is identified with conventional values... in others it was John Edwards (who has the right demographics)

Whoooo Richard. What you been smokin?

1 posted on 11/07/2004 1:11:50 PM PST by upchuck
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To: upchuck

Ah yeah. The 'Republican' defense secretary under Bubba. Yawn.


2 posted on 11/07/2004 1:14:10 PM PST by Tealc (Mail me if you want on or off my Jaffa, Kree! ping list)
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To: upchuck

Cohen's write right in that Gore would be a better candidate than Hillary or Edwards. It makes me wonder why all these people are ready to coronate Rudy to beat Hillary when Hillary might not even be the nominee.


3 posted on 11/07/2004 1:14:42 PM PST by Keyes2000mt (http://adamsweb.us/blog Conservative Truth for Idaho)
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To: Tealc

No, that was William Cohen.


4 posted on 11/07/2004 1:15:14 PM PST by Keyes2000mt (http://adamsweb.us/blog Conservative Truth for Idaho)
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To: upchuck

Gore couldn't even win his home state, let alone the south. And what is he doing in Nashville? Waiting to be discovered?


5 posted on 11/07/2004 1:15:34 PM PST by Cagey ("We need a leader, not a weather vane".....................Laura Armstrong)
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To: upchuck

This site must be an alternative to Onion. Al Gore is such a loser. The dems have to stop putting up losers that the MSM can't even put in office. In 2008 the MSM will have even less influence.


6 posted on 11/07/2004 1:15:56 PM PST by ProudVet77 (W stands for Winner)
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To: upchuck
If you set out to create the perfect Democratic presidential candidate, you would probably choose someone from the South or the Border States, since John Kerry lost virtually the entire region on Tuesday, and someone who is comfortable talking the language of religion and values, since John Kerry was not, and someone whose wife is identified with conventional values and, last, someone who took a very early position against the war in Iraq, which John Kerry did not. Such a person already exists and, as luck would have it, has a name: Al Gore.

Jimmy Carter fits the description even better. And, as luck would have it, he is eligible for the office.

7 posted on 11/07/2004 1:15:56 PM PST by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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8 posted on 11/07/2004 1:16:36 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (The price of freedom is eternal vigilance)
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To: upchuck
(hey guys, shut up, willya?!?!)

PLEASE, Democrats, DO NOT Run Gore in 2008. No, I'm scared. Please. Don't run Gore, not HIM. Oh no. We're doomed. Please, do not run Gore, whatever you do. And DEFINITELY don't run him with Hillary as VP. God no, not that.

9 posted on 11/07/2004 1:18:09 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: upchuck

Problem is that algore, if I recall correctly, was raised and educated in DC where his real home was a swanky hotel suite. He is no Jimmy Carter.


10 posted on 11/07/2004 1:19:25 PM PST by hlmencken3 (Think good and it will be good!)
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To: upchuck
and Gore, as Gary Hart once said about George McGovern, will be deemed "right from the start."

Yes, another George McGovern.

That's the ticket!

BRING-IT-ON.

11 posted on 11/07/2004 1:22:20 PM PST by Jim Noble (FR Iraq policy debate begins 11/3/04. Pass the word.)
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To: upchuck

Yeah thats the ticket!! Al Gore ...Yeah thats it. He couldn't win his "home state" as incumbant Vice President, when we were still in the so-called "Clinton miricle" boom years. What in God's name makes this guy think he'll win the entire South as a washed up loser? Yup Al Gore or Piano Legs , nominating either one is a sure recipe for GOP control for the next decade.


12 posted on 11/07/2004 1:22:51 PM PST by YankeeReb
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To: Keyes2000mt
No, that was William Cohen.

Don't bother me with pesky little details! :) Thanks. I wonder if they're related.
13 posted on 11/07/2004 1:23:40 PM PST by Tealc (Mail me if you want on or off my Jaffa, Kree! ping list)
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To: COEXERJ145
Democrats LOVE a loser. They keep running the same names. It really is surprising when you look at it...

1892 Grover Cleveland / VP - Adlai Stevenson (D) won

1896 William Bryan / VP - Arthur Sewall (D) LOST

1900 William Bryan / VP - Adlai Stevenson (D) LOST

1908 William Bryan / VP - John Kern (D) LOST

1924 John Davis / VP -Charles Bryan LOST (Charles was William Jennings Bryan's brother)

1952 Adlai Stevenson (III) / VP - John Sparkman (D) LOST (Stevenson's grandfather had been VP in 1892 and had a failed return bid)

1956 Adlai Stevenson (III) Estes Kefauver (D) LOST (Kefauver was Senator from Tennessee, fellow Senator Albert Gore Sr. tried to get on the ticket and failed. Estes made a name for himself 'investigating' pop culture's influence on juvenile delinquency, shades of the PMRC hearings)

1964 Lyndon Johnson / VP - Hubert Humphrey (D) won

1968 Hubert Humphrey / VP - Edmund Muskie (D) LOST

1976 James Carter / VP -Walter Mondale (D) won

1980 James Carter / VP -Walter Mondale (D)LOST

1984 Walter Mondale / VP - Geraldine Ferraro (D) LOST

1992 William Clinton / VP - Albert Gore Jr. (D) won

1996 William Clinton / VP - Albert Gore Jr. (D) won

2000 Albert Gore Jr. / VP - Joseph Lieberman (D) LOST

Does Walter Mondale have any kids who could run???

14 posted on 11/07/2004 1:28:49 PM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: Darkwolf377

Don't throw us in the Gore Patch!


15 posted on 11/07/2004 1:28:53 PM PST by Rocko (Congratulations, President Bush!)
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To: Darkwolf377

LOL! (unless you were being serious)


16 posted on 11/07/2004 1:29:18 PM PST by silent_jonny (Victory is sooooo sweet!)
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To: upchuck

Memo to Richard Cohen:

Al Gore has run for president twice. The first time, he didn't make it out of the primaries. The second time, he was running as the two-term incumbent vice-president to, and I quote the man himself, "one of our greatest presidents", and still couldn't close the deal, even after spending a month trying to win a pivotal state in a rancorous legal battle. He's spent the four years since then attempting to rid himself of his reputation as a campaigner with the charisma, charm and natural ease of a tree by building a new one as a loud, shrill, bellowing walrus. In short, Rich, if you seriously think Al Gore is the salvation of the Democratic Party...drugs are bad, mmkay?


17 posted on 11/07/2004 1:29:21 PM PST by RichInOC (Al Gore took the initiative in destroying the modern Democratic Party.)
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To: Cagey
And what is he doing in Nashville? Waiting to be discovered?

Gore says he moved "back home" to "mend fences". So far all he's done is to remodel the big white house (not to be confused with White House - haha!) he bought in Belle Meade (one of the most exclusive communities in the U.S.) and give a few spitting, sputtering, drooling Nurembergesque speeches to moveon.puke.

18 posted on 11/07/2004 1:30:15 PM PST by Morgan's Raider
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To: Tealc

What is a Jaffa, Kree?


19 posted on 11/07/2004 1:30:41 PM PST by upchuck (Pajamas? I don' need no steenking pajamas!!)
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To: weegee
Looking at your list, I'm struck by the names of VP candidates I've never heard of before: Arthur Sewall, John Kern, Charles Bryan, John Sparkman, Estes Kefauver, Edmund Muskie ...

John Edwards should fit right in.

20 posted on 11/07/2004 1:37:49 PM PST by silent_jonny (Victory is sooooo sweet!)
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