Posted on 02/26/2007 6:30:12 AM PST by .cnI redruM
Al Gore insists he isn’t running. He insists rather frequently. People pay great amounts of attention to these proclamations; so much attention that they almost feel staged.
A lot of the experts claim that Barack Oprahbama has stolen Gore’s slot. The Democrats no longer need a fresh face. They have John Edwards and Barack. When you’ve got the audacity of hope (whatever that is) going for you, who needs to be bored with the inconvenient truth.
Al doesn’t seem to be buying. At least he doesn’t act that way. Last night he was on stage getting an Oscar. What were John, Barack and Hillary doing to meet the masses?
Nothing, according to David Remmick of The New Yorker, that could match what Al Gore was ginning up on the sidelines.
“With his documentary film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore made the undeniability of the crisis a matter of consensus; thanks largely to him, an environmental issue will be an electoral issue. His secular evangelism has earned him an honored night at the Academy Awards and—almost as glittering—a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.”
So why would the defeated candidate from Election 2000 think he could make the big comeback so soon? He hears it from people who want him to. The demand for a Gore resurgence truly exists on the political left. Remmick continues.
“In increasing numbers, poll results imply, Americans are disheartened by the real and existing Presidency, and no small number also feel regret that Gore—the winner in 2000 of the popular vote by more than half a million ballots, the almost certain winner of any reasonable or consistent count in the state of Florida—ended up the target of what it is not an exaggeration to call a judicial coup d’état. Justice Antonin Scalia routinely instructs those who question his vote in Bush v. Gore to stop their ceaseless whinging. “It’s water over the deck,” he told an audience at Iona College last month. “Get over it.” But it is neither possible nor wise to “get over it.” The historical damage is too profound.”
So Al Gore presents effects a studied, public disinterest in the Presidency. According to Patrick Ruffini, this is not what currently goes on beneath the radar, on Planet Gore.
“And if you’re smart, you capitalize on high-impact events like the Oscar win to collect e-mail addresses.
Gore may deflect by saying that the page is for issue advocacy only, but make no mistake: this database can be used by a future Gore campaign. He seems to be still keeping his options open.”
Al Gore is getting the best of both worlds. He stands above the fray and out of combat when David Geffen and Hillary’s footmen trade sleazy campaign barbs. Nobody gives Al Gore any grief about his close association with our nation’s most recently impeached former president.
He gets constant, high-grade, international media over his environmental issue advocacy. This advocacy also allows him to build his donor list without the expense of an exploratory committee. He has Leonardo DiCaprio begging him to run for office.
“Al Gore, looking larger than life, took to the stage twice, once to chew the fat with Leonardo DiCaprio (who told Gore, "You are a true champion for the cause," meaning, of course, the cause of environmental issues). Gore returned later to share in the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, "An Inconvenient Truth," essentially an illustrated lecture by the former vice president on the subject of global warming.”
Gore even twisted the knife a little more by doing a skit where he pretended to announce, only to be drowned out by the music, as the Oscars cut to a commercial. He handled that well. He made a joke out of his current non-candidate status, but he sure put the thought, or the scare, of another Al Gore candidacy in the minds of anyone watching the Oscars as they faded off to bed last night.
And that is exactly how non-candidate, candidates gather the momentum to enter a race at the right time. They keep up the scare. Their profile stays high, they roll up momentum, but their opponents can’t really shoot at them without looking tacky.
I may be wrong. Al Gore may not run for office in 2008. I just don’t think he can allow himself to stay out of the race for long. Last night he looked like a man who would chew through barbed wire to win election to the presidency.
A famous quote from one of America's best Generals - N.B.F.
He'll let Hillary and Obomba fight it out, and embarrass themselves, then he'll enter the fray as "the great saviour", and pick Obomba as his running mate.
Then again, maybe he won't run.
Al looks like somebody put a tire valve in his belly button and inflated him to about 120 psi.
Sounds like somebody needs to review the style manual. That was a most unfortunate concatenation of images.
Whoever produced and directed his movie is giving the political consultants and their tired campaign formulas a run for their money. I wonder if it is Don Mischer.
Al Gore, looking fatter than a beached whale, took to the stage twice, once to chew a shoulder off Leonardo DiCaprio.
That is exactly what will happen. And if it does, he will be the next President.
However, the challenges facing the President between 2009-2012 are going to be monumental - and Gore won't be able to handle them. Jeb Bush should be the big beneficiary in 2012.
I hope he is the nominee for the Rats. Another loss would be most enjoyable to watch. What will he do next time, shave his head and enter rehab?
Gore also made a ton of money getting in on IPOs early with his silicon valley buddies. That, and he and his wife's burning hatred of the Clintons means that he can sit back and direct things from afar.
I really wonder if he is willing to spend $100 million dollars to defeat her. Of course, he would prefer to spend less, but what price can you put on eight or so years of being utterly debased and humiliated by the Clintons? Of seeing your wife cry herself to sleep every night for how long, because of the twisted cruelties inflicted on her by a sadistic Hillary?
All he really needs to do is break up her timetable, to take the wind out of her sails, to give subtle support to her enemies, to insure a bruising primary fight. And as much as the republicans might want to run against her, to take her down hard and early.
Given that I expect the Democrats to win in 08 unless W seriously takes on Iran very soon (seriously, no hearts and minds crap), I would prefer that Democrat to be Mrs. Bill because that will at least give us a Republican and probably much more actually conservative Congress in 2010. If any of the 3 main Republican(cringe)candidates gets the nomination, I expect we will have increasingly Crat Congresses as far as the eye can see and a Crat congress with a crat(R) president is going to be the end of the Medical system in America as we swap it for the glories of English or Canadian medicine. The War won't be over just because we run away. When the Crat takes Homeland Defense off it's Islamic terrorist focus and turns it against NRA and Christians and suspected conservatives we will start getting some super-911s.A Democrat is more apt to do what is necessary (after several major strikes against us) to destroy the enemy than a Republican is because the Republican has to fret about being approved by the MSM and the Democrats. A Democrat will just feel betrayed and will lash out and MSM will approve of anything for a crat, anyway. A leftist doesn't care whether anyone approves of her actions or not, doesn't care whether anyone is offended or not. All a Democrat knows is that she has been dissed and somebody is gonna pay and she starts throwing multimegaton ashtrays.
Heard on a news blurb this a.m. that albore is popular now. Made me nauseous.
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