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Dick Morris: Look out, here comes Al Gore
Salem Statesman Journal ^ | March 2, 2006 | Dick Morris

Posted on 03/02/2006 8:24:23 AM PST by presidio9

Like a completely refurbished “pre-owned vehicle,” Al Gore seems to be positioning himself to Hillary Clinton’s left and as greener than John Kerry for a run at the 2008 Democratic nomination for president. His slogan might well read “reelect Al Gore.”

The former vice president’s slashing attacks on the administration and his stalwart, if misguided, opposition to the Iraq war leave him without the complications and complexes that will devil Clinton as she seeks to appeal to the unforgiving left of the Democratic Party.

And 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.” He has been an energy-conservation nut for years, and his obsessions with alternatives to oil will play better and better as we come to realize how our addiction to oil has led us to dependency on the dealers of this particular drug — Iran, the Saudi royal family and Hugo Chavez.

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But 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.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at statesmanjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algore; famoustoesuckers; gore; gore2008; hillary2008; startwithmybigtoe; thensuckthepinkytoe
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Dick Morris, who was an adviser to Bill Clinton for 20 years, is a syndicated columnist for Cagle Cartoons, P.O. Box 22342, Santa Barbara, CA 93121. Send e-mail to dmredding@aol.com.
1 posted on 03/02/2006 8:24:24 AM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9

Al Gore is the dream ticket... For the GOP.


2 posted on 03/02/2006 8:25:31 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

Seriously. Run AL run!


3 posted on 03/02/2006 8:26:30 AM PST by Republican Red ("How good is it? Al-Jazeera gave it 4 1/2 pipe bombs")
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To: presidio9

"Gore looks more and more like a man whose time may have come."



Who's time has come, and gone.


4 posted on 03/02/2006 8:26:35 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: presidio9
...greener than John Kerry...

Anyone know what Algore owns/drives/leases?

5 posted on 03/02/2006 8:26:45 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: presidio9
Gore, Hillary, and Kerry(?) in the '08 primaries...

I've got dibs on the popcorn concession...

6 posted on 03/02/2006 8:27:22 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Brilliant
Al Gore is the dream ticket... Almost

The dream ticket to me (in any order) is Gore / Dean.

Even I could beat that one!!

7 posted on 03/02/2006 8:27:29 AM PST by llevrok (Drink your beer, damnit! There are people in Africa sober.)
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To: Brilliant

Dick Morris is becoming pathetic. He makes his living off of those three - 2 Clintons and a Gore. He's obsessed with them. ENOUGH Dick...ENOUGH. Does anyone seriously think Gore could ever be the Democrat nominee, really?


8 posted on 03/02/2006 8:27:55 AM PST by Hildy (The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth)
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To: Brilliant
You beat me to the post. The way this guy has acted since the 2000 election, I don't see Independent or Republican votes giving him much sympathy. Hildebeast has a pot of money and Slick's list of supporters along with the FBI files to blackmail people. She will be tough to beat for the nomination and tough to beat in the General Election.
9 posted on 03/02/2006 8:28:07 AM PST by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: presidio9

If Dick Morris really thinks Al Gore has a life in politics, I have a bridge I'd like to sell Morris.

Gore absolutely destroyed any chance of a life in politics when he went to Saudi Arabia and made the outrageous statements he made.


10 posted on 03/02/2006 8:28:11 AM PST by Peach
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To: presidio9

If Al Gore fell in the forest and there was nobody around, would he still be an idiot?


11 posted on 03/02/2006 8:28:16 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth!")
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To: Brilliant

Call it a wet one...don't know if I could cope
with another election with this fruitcake....stop
the world and let me off...geeeezzzz...Jake


12 posted on 03/02/2006 8:28:21 AM PST by sanjacjake
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To: llevrok

Gore and Dean would be wonderful!!!

I say go for it, DNC!


13 posted on 03/02/2006 8:28:58 AM PST by fhlh (Polls are for Strippers.)
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To: Republican Red

--yep--with Dick "Toes" Morris as chief campaign advisor--


14 posted on 03/02/2006 8:29:07 AM PST by rellimpank (Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
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To: mewzilla

Doesn't he ride around in a short yellow bus?


15 posted on 03/02/2006 8:29:10 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth!")
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To: Hildy

Dick is in more dire need of a toe sucking than any white man in history.


16 posted on 03/02/2006 8:29:21 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: presidio9

Look out, indeed...

17 posted on 03/02/2006 8:29:34 AM PST by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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To: presidio9

18 posted on 03/02/2006 8:29:55 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: mewzilla
Anyone know what Algore owns/drives/leases?

A balloon, powered by his own hot air.

19 posted on 03/02/2006 8:30:06 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: presidio9
Who is going to pay for the 1/2 hour before the election featuring al Gore's speeches?
20 posted on 03/02/2006 8:30:28 AM PST by Tarpon
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