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Gore is squeaky clean, untouched by corruption. No lost billing records in his linen closet, no Enron or Abramoff staining his campaign finance reports.

This isn't even true. How can anyone already have forgotten, "...no controlling legal authority"?

Who writes this drivel???

[pabianice]

Herewith, the Top Ten reasons why Al Gore should be the Democrats' nominee in 2008. Feel free to rearrange, improve upon, add, print and share.

10: My dad, the Midwestern bellwether, thinks Al Gore can win.

Yeah? What's his record on past elections?

9. Gore doesn't pander to the religious vote, and he has forcefully and eloquently spoken out about separation of church and state.

Nonsense. Gore is a cardinal in the Church of Secular Humanism.

8. He is courageous. Gore has consistently called the current administration out on its radical agenda, extremism and criminality.

Right. The five months he spent in Vietnam in the company of a personal bodyguard bought by his old man is sure a testimony to his bravery.

7. By 2008, energy conservation will be an American obsession, not just with the so-called liberal "elite." Gore, the public conservationist, drew ridicule talking about it in the days of petrol plenty, sounds pretty smart now.

By 2008, treekissers will be getting "pantsed" by a public furious over the Gorebots' refusal to allow drilling in Alaska.

6. By 2008, global warming will be a mainstream concern. Gore was talking about global warming back when it was still science fiction. He's starring in a movie about it, coming to multiplexes along with "Over the Hedge."

see above

5. The Iraq War will be universally understood to be a disaster by 2008. Gore opposed the Iraq War first among his peers, and forcefully, in 2004.

The Iraq War will be seen as having been the right thing to do.

4. Gore is squeaky clean, untouched by corruption. No lost billing records in his linen closet, no Enron or Abramoff staining his campaign finance reports.

Let's ask the poor couple he evicted from one of his vast holdings of properties because they asked to have the toilet fixed.

3. He can fight. He seems to have recovered his vitality, after the apparently spirit-draining years in Washington, the U.S. Senate and the vice presidency.

He can howl. He can grimace. He can rant. He can look like a rhesus monkey on crack. He cannot fight since he is a coward.

2. We CAN forgive him for selecting Joe Lieberman as his running mate, as long as he doesn't ever do it again.

Spoken like a true Deaniac. Another winning tactic.

1. He actually was elected President. If international election monitors had been running the show in 2000, imagine how different the world would look today.

And the Moon landing really was faked in an LA studio. And the Pentagon really was hit by a Gao'uld death ray. And Hillary really is a moderate Republican.

Get a life.

[BulletBobCo]

[BulletBobCo]

Something in this thread triggered an automatic rules response at post 39.

[JohnLongIsland]

this is better than scott ott at scrappleface.

[BulletBobCo]

"Mia T....If I get elected President, I"ll be coming after you....and all you other Freepers!"

[Jim Noble]

Nina! Lose these?

[Doogle]

Sen. Clinton should do the right and responsible thing, open up that big campaign war-chest and dump it on someone electable.

..you not going to get anything back from a clinton

[bandleader]

MAJOR BARF ALERT?

[ZULU]

I'd love to see Gore run again.

He was a comic figure who produced many laughs.

The Republicans BEST hope of winning in 2008 is the only major party running against them is the Democrats. And this article is a perfect example of why.

[printhead]

O.K. I'll bite. Who is Nina Burleigh? The references to kneepads comes from where?

[marron]

It never ceases to amaze me that there is a sector of the public that actually thinks Gore is smart.

Considering that the guy is as dumb as a rock, and plainly so, it was always somewhat jarring to see him routinely referred to in the press as an intellectual giant. I always thought that perhaps they were enjoying some immense private joke at the poor man's expense, something like nicknaming a big man "Tiny" or a little man "Moose".

It always struck me as cruel that the mainstream press insisted on highlighting the poor man's low-wattage brainpower by pretending to admire what he plainly did not have.

Or was the game at my expense? Were they convinced that they could convince me, by the power of their control of the printing press, that up was down, blue was amber, and that the dumbest man in American politics was actually smart, and were they choosing this obvious absurdity as a test case for mass mind control...?

The other possibility, of course, was that they really believed what they were saying. This would be startling, like cold water in the face, to think that the entire mainstream press could be so completely deluded. But those are the three choices. That they themselves are victims of some massive mind-control experiment gone awry, or the perpetrators of a grand mind-control experiment with me as its test case, or else (and surely this is it) having a huge laugh at Al Gore's expense.

[caveat emptor]

Nina Burleigh

[sauropod]

Gore is squeaky clean, untouched by corruption.

Miz Burleigh must think we all have the minds of turnips and can't remember the Tinkle Defense and "no controlling legal authority."

Unfrickin' believable.

[snowrip]

I'm all for having a female president and the Senator might even make a good one, somewhere and someday.

Only if you're talking about Hillary being the future ruler of Hell, although Hitler and Stalin would give her a run in the primaries.

[razorback-bert]

Gore is squeaky clean, untouched by corruption.

Small minded people have wee memories, Buddist monks and out for tea.

[Doctor Raoul]

Hey Nina, on your knees, I'm feeling pro-choice.

[JustPiper]

[PGalt]

Run Hillary Run!

Run Al Run!

Kneel Nina Kneel!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

There's a part of me that hopes the Dems are REALLY stupid and end up nominating Hillary. We will have SO much "fun" freeping her all over the place - endless "fodder" for protest signs.