Go Gol, Go!
Posted on 02/22/2006 5:46:58 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
Look Out, Here Comes Al
Dick Morris
February 22, 2006
Gore may be a man whose time has come in his party. It was he who warned of climate change and predicted its consequences. Hurricane Katrina was just a fulfillment of the prophesies Gore wrote about in his late-1980s book Earth in the Balance.
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History indicates that candidates who won the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College have all come back to win revenge in subsequent elections. Andrew Jackson, cheated in 1824, won in 1828. Grover Cleveland, cheated in 1888, triumphed in 1892.
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Could Al beat Hillary? If Mrs. Clinton persists in her support of the Iraq war, he could. But never count on Hillary losing an election over a principle. It’s a bad bet. If she moves to the left on the war, as she already shows signs of doing, she would preempt Gore and Kerry and use her tremendous lead in fundraising and ex-officio delegates to cruise to the nomination.
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Gore has three things going for him: A perception that he was robbed of the White House and Hillary’s possible stubbornness in continuing to back the war.
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The third thing? The weather. As the evidence of global climate change impresses everyone who doesn’t work at the White House, Gore looks more and more like a man whose time may have come.
Morris, a former political adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race.
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Come On Al!
Are you yanking my chain with a pile driver?
Morris is talking himself into oblivion. What does he call the Category 4 Galveston Hurricane, which happened 105 years ago? Gore Prophesies. spit.
You could be right. I was actually thinking that Johnny Kerry might get the dem nomination. As bad and traitorous as he is, he did almost win against an incumbant in time of war. I'm fairly certain that those who voted for him the first time would do it again if they could.
Ha! He is one slick dude and I'm sure he fools a lot of us.
Some of those who voted for Kerry were voting against Bush and had nothing to compell them to SUPPORT Kerry.
George W. Bush beat all of the "anybody but Bush" candidates combined.
The media pulled out all stops trying to defeat the Republican candidate last time (including heavy content on what the rest of the world had to say about our presidential election). There were biased poll results (even on election day), there were hoaxed news items, there was phoney outrage over abuse (which is what inspired the terrorists in Iraq, which increased the body count as foreign terrorists did the murdering that Iraqi soldiers wouldn't do). Just think what will happen when some new guy or girl (an unknown quantity to much of America) has to be introduced as the "front runner".
The media will certainly try to shape and mold just who that front runner is. McCain is their obvious choice. Having seen the racist cartoons they published of Condi Rice, they may mention her as a candidate but could fully be expected to savage her identity.
Pay attention to the toe sucker when he says things like this. He knows full well that Gore can't possibly win. Just like he knows full well that Condolezza Rice can't possibly win. He's just trying to stir up controversy.
Points taken weeg.
Dick Morris makes sense. It doesn't matter what we think of Gore - this column is an analysis of Gore's actions, not Gore's ability or policy. I've thought for a while that Gore was running again in 2008. Especially if Bush bombs somehow, Gore would seem like a viable alternative, no matter what those of us who despise the man think. IMHO, Gore relates to Nixon almost perfectly. In the same manner that Nixon retained the malice and bitterness from his loss to Kennedy and the press treatment he received, Gore seems to be maniacal in his distaste for conservatives and the new right-wing media. I could easily see Gore with an enemies list and a penchant for political mayhem. We'll see. My belief is that the system can handle a madman at the helm - power is too diffuse in the system for a dictator to take total control, although it could be a hairy ride there for a while.
It should have been a slam-dunk for Ali Ghor al-Ooudi. "The greatest economy in the history of the world", no Soviet threat, terror not an issue yet, running with the endorsement a popular President (though I think the MSM cooked the polling books visa vis Clinton), local Democrat machines free to stuff ballot boxes at will, MSM backing, etc. He should have won by at least 350 electoral votes. Ali Ghor lost because he comes across as an elitist, wooden, tree-hugging nutcase, plain and simple. The people of the U.S. sized him up and found him wanting.
Gore just whored himself out to the Arabs and Morris is comparing him to Nixon?
What a moron.
I hope you're right, considering my own prediction that he'd probably be borderline insane in his policy and judgments. Strange things happen in politics, though, and I can easily see him as the Democratic party candidate. Throw in a Perot, toss in some unforeseen crisis that cripples the Republicans, and who knows what will happen. But I hope you're right.
Meteorology is a science.
Global warming ain't science.
It's a religion.
I could even hear Rich Little doing the dialogue...
And, as for myself, I had rather vote for your cat than see Algore become President.
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