Keep the faith, little soldier!
Posted on 08/30/2007 9:13:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As Lee Eames took his seat at the front of the Friends Room at the Columbia Public Library on Saturday afternoon, he was stricken by the low attendance for the first meeting of his Citizens for Gore campaign.
“I’m a little disappointed in the turnout, but when I started this project I hadn’t broken my hip,” Eames told a group of four supporters of former vice president Al Gore.
Inspired by the 220 regularly meeting Gore groups across the country, Eames hopes to assemble a Columbia group that will help influence the 2000 presidential candidate to run for the presidency again. At last Saturday’s meeting, the group discussed Gore’s environmental stance and what they can do to gain support for Gore in the area. Eames cited quotes in Gore’s “The Assault on Reason” as an impetus for his support of Gore.
“Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several ‘tipping points’ that could — within as little as 10 years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet’s habitability for human civilization,” Gore wrote in his new book.
Eames encouraged the group to sign online petitions in support of Gore, and he plans to speak to the Muleskinners, a local Democratic Party luncheon club that meets every Friday at noon in the Stamper Commons cafeteria on the Stephens College campus.
Though Gore has not said whether he will run, his supporters nationwide are committed to showing him that he has the necessary backing to win.
Asked why she is supporting Gore, California resident Monica Friedlander of DraftGore.com in an e-mail cited “the sense that 2008 may be the most crucial election in our nation’s history, and after the devastating crises created by the Bush administration, we are in desperate need for a qualified candidate with the courage of conviction and who is electable. Al Gore is clearly the only one who fits the bill.“
Gore Web sites help connect the national grass-roots movement. DraftGore.com has gathered more than 110,000 signatures on a petition urging Gore to run. Another Gore Web site, AlGore.org, is working to include Gore in the “Democracy for America” straw polls for the Democratic primary nomination.
“His lead is astounding in all online polls, leading the declared candidates by as much as 5 to 1,“ Friedlander said. “And he leads in a number of states in scientific polls as well.”
According to a Detroit News/WXYZ-TV poll earlier this month, Gore led in his party’s poll, beating declared candidates in a survey of 400 likely Democratic voters in Michigan. Gore received 36 percent of the votes compared to the runner-up, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who received 32 percent.
“That’s without any campaigning!” Eames said Saturday.
Though Gore hasn’t indicated his intentions, his supporters are hopeful.
“He is the only person who has the gravitas (to serve),“ said Kay Callison, a local Democratic Party activist who attended Eames’ meeting.
The movement isn’t futile. Undeclared candidates, especially as popular as Gore, still have time to get on state primary ballots. In New Hampshire, which has the first scheduled primary, they have until mid-November.
According to an Associated Press report late Thursday afternoon, formerly undeclared Republican candidate Fred Thompson, partially inspired by grass-roots conservative support, announced his intention to declare himself a candidate for president on Sept. 6.
Gore supporters hope that their man, like Thompson, will eventually be persuaded to run.
“There are some efforts to put Gore’s name on ballots in various states, such as California and New Hampshire,” Friedlander said.
In the meantime, Eames will be ready if or when Gore does declare. Eames seemed confident that Gore will announce over Labor Day weekend.
“If he does that, we’ll be swamped. If he doesn’t, I’ll stick with it,” Eames said.
“Fred Thompson, partially inspired by grass-roots conservative support”
I am glad to know he can be at least “partially” inspired by anything.
Give it a rest. I’d probably like Romney better if his supporters were more pleasant.
““He is the only person who has the gravitas (to serve),“ “
Funny how everyone wants to have gravitas after they discovered it in Fred Thompson.
It took you less than 3 minutes to dive on an Al Gore thread only tangentially about Fred Thompson to pounce? Do you really think Mitt needs you to attack Fred? Is your camp that nervous over Fred’s candidacy? Why is that, do you think?
“I’d probably like Romney better if his supporters were more pleasant”.
He doesn’t comb his own hair, silly. ;)
Does it mean that Gore has about 1,100 supporters across the country?
And exhaling CO2.
Or maybe offered free "Help Stop ManBearPig" bumper stickers.
Probably takes a couple of hours a day, anyway!
The low turnout can be explained by global warming.
It’s laminated. No comb necessary. :p
We should worry about large groups of flatulent liberals, got to be worse than Norwegian moose belches!
Silly J-school cluck,
This fellow was struck.
Well, if there were only 5 or 6, the media would get them in a tight knot, shoot a closeup and the cut line would read: "An enthusiastic crowd...."
Keep the faith, little soldier!
This boob is a perfect example of a nobody who uses his dad's money to buy experts to tell him what and how to think. In his new book he screams about the "new media" destroying the "marketplace of ideas," yet he claims he "took the initiative in creating the Internet." He tells everyone else that they're destroying the environment, but uses TWENTY (no! yes!) TWENTY times the energy of an average American. He said, when in office, that Saddam was in search of WMD and should be stopped, but castigates Bush for following through on that policy. He SHRIEKS "HE PLAYED ON OUR FEARS!" when all he sells now is fear.
Al Gore is a whimpering, liberal wimp rich boy who claims to be from a farm but grew up in a hotel in Washington. He is a boring, robotic, insensitive (but feigning caring) nothing who is the kind of "intellectual" stupid people think is an intellectual.
I hope he runs.
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- A recognition that there are far too many human beings on Earth.
- A deep questioning of, and even an antipathy to, "progress" and "technology."
- A refusal to accept rationality as the only way of thinking.
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