They couldn't find a room large enough to hold their combined "brilliance."
Vietnam Kerry.
Global Gore
Posted on 04/02/2007 2:25:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A Gore candidacy?
The return of Elizabeth Edwards' cancer changes the dynamics of the U.S. presidential race. Specifically, it strengthens the likelihood of an Al Gore candidacy.
Despite the torrent of scientific media reports on the improved outcomes for bone-cancer patients that followed John and Elizabeth Edwards' joint announcement earlier this month that her cancer had returned only two years after Ms. Edwards' fight with breast cancer, the realistic prognosis cannot be optimistic. Should her condition noticeably weaken in the nine months before the primary season begins, Edwards will drop out to be constantly with his wife and two small children, as he was during the earlier cancer scare and the still earlier death of the Edwards' son. There's really no alternative, unless Edwards chooses to risk a popular backlash. By pledging this month to continue his campaign, Edwards is already breaking a vow he made last August, telling the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer that "something happening to Elizabeth" would keep him from running.
The race needs Edwards, who has shown more fortitude than fellow co-frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The policy-rich Edwards campaign alone offers a comprehensive health-care reform package, including an element of Canadian-style universal single-payer coverage. And Edwards alone among the frontrunners has been admirably clear about Iraq, where he wants an immediate withdrawal of most U.S. forces. By contrast, on health care Clinton wants to reprise her failed Rube Goldberg scheme that was DOA in 1994; and has an overly nuanced exit strategy for Iraq designed not to offend anyone. Meanwhile, policy-lite Obama is traveling on charismatic jet fumes that won't carry him much further. A likely scenario has Obama quitting before Clinton humiliates him with her vastly greater policy smarts across the widest imaginable spectrum of issues, foreign and domestic.
Which would call forth a new anybody-but-Clinton candidate – and there's Gore waiting in the wings. Gore, who was correct on the major issues of our times – the importance of the Internet, the folly of Iraq (which he repeatedly and very publicly warned against in 2002) and, of course, climate change. Is he interested? You bet. But only if he's 100 per cent certain of winning the nomination. With only one frontrunner instead of three to contend with, and with GOP frontrunners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani yoked to the unpopular George W. Bush, Gore would have to like his chances of winning the nomination and the White House. Money, name recognition and a lingering Dem desire to settle scores for the stolen election of 2000 are in ample supply.
Gore is still stiff, and still regarded with contempt by a punditry, liberal and conservative, that can't acknowledge it was wrong in putting too much emphasis on Bush's likeability in 2000. (Recall that polls back then showed Bush as the preferred choice of who you'd rather share a beer with. From such trivialities America's worst foreign-policy disaster followed.)
Gore has grown more politically savvy during seven years in the wilderness. David Remnick, who spent several weeks with Al and Tipper Gore last year for a New Yorker profile, wrote recently that Gore is working to shed his major flaw of being the smartest guy in the room. The crew at Saturday Night Live wrote Gore into a skit with scatological jibes, and the manner in which Gore declined that opportunity to be a YouTube victim is telling: "I'm sure this is funny," he said, "but at the end of this I want to have some bread crumbs left leading back to my dignity."
"Smartest guy in the room", eh? Thanks for the good laugh to get the endorphins started this morning.
And by the by, Al, the birds have eaten the bread crumbs long ago.
And I always thought his major flaw was that he was the looniest guy in whatever planet he's from! ;-)
Boy, I hope so. I read somewhere that if he runs, it will be as an independent, giving the Neocoms (aka Hilary, Osama, John, Dennis, and others)their own 21st century Ross Perot.
HA! It worked for me.
Run, Al, run! And choose JF Kerry as your VP.
They couldn't find a room large enough to hold their combined "brilliance."
Vietnam Kerry.
Global Gore
"The policy-rich Edwards campaign alone offers a comprehensive health-care reform package, including an element of Canadian-style universal single-payer coverage. And Edwards alone among the frontrunners has been admirably clear about Iraq, where he wants an immediate withdrawal of most U.S. forces."
So The Breck Girl stands for Socialized Medicine AND Surrender to the Islamofacists. Great for America!
She certainly won't give up w/o a knockdown drag out.
"Smartest guy in an empty room".
BIG algore is being lauded for now. When and IF he throws his hat into the ring the media and clinton operatives will chew him up and spit him out like some bulemic.
"With me at the controls of the U.N. weather machine, I will lead us out of this global warming quagmire President Bush has lead us into."
Run AL Run. I think if he ran under a 3rd party like the Greens and as a anti-war candidate, he would deflate most of the support of any of the Democrats and will get much higher polling. This will be the ultimate revenge against Hillary. LOL!
Just another confused leftist who has fallen into the trap of believing his own lies... Yawn...
I don't remember the media being kind to the "likable" Bush. I only remember all their leading stories like "WILL BUSH'S SMIRK LEAD TO A FOREIGN POLICY DISASTER?"
He is not even the smartest guy i a porta-potie.
An untended room at Creedmoor maybe.
ML/NJ
I can see Al now making Oscar jokes about who has a better sense of humor and a smaller carbon footprint.
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