REMATCH: GORE TELLS TOP AIDES HE'LL SEEK NOMINATION

DRUDGE ^ | 9/15/02 | Drudge

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

GORE'S DECISION

**World Exclusive**

While publicly he maintains an air of mystery when asked about his political future, former Vice President Al Gore has quietly made a decision whether to once again make a run for the White House, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Gore from Tennessee has confided in his very top aides that he's determined to give it another try!

"We've got ourselves a rematch!" one well-placed source, with direct ties to Gore, said from Washington.

"Tipper's onboard. She is behind the decision 100%. Clearly the party is ready, and will rally behind him. It owes him," said the source, who recently spent an evening with the former candidate. "It even rhymes, 'GORE IN '04!'"

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Nothing will be made officials for months, according to sources, but the man who beat Bush in the popular vote is raising his profile.

Gore electrified the crowd at the Washington Convention Center on Saturday night.

"The surpluses are gone - where'd they go? One year, boy that was fast work," Gore told the Congressional Black Caucus dinner.

Looking and acting the part of a presidential contender -- the contender his inner-circle already knows he is -- Gore unleashed, framing the debate, mocking President Bush's description of the economic boom during the '90s as a "binge."

"Yeah, for eight years we were on a binge - working, creating jobs, paying off the deficit, putting people to work, building more classrooms, recruiting more teachers," Gore said, while several attendees shouted 'Amen!'

With Gore on Bush Hunt Round Two, Republicans moved into early campaign mode.

"We understand that Al Gore is having a tough time remaining relevant within his party but these are different times that demand a leader with a plan," not just criticism, Republican spokesman Kevin Sheridan said late Sunday.

"I guess Al Gore thinks he knows better than Alan Greenspan and nearly every economist in America who agree that the president's timely tax relief prevented an even worse Clinton-Gore downturn," jabbed Sheridan.

They're off and -- running.

[GunRunner]

This. Is. Great. News.

[rintense]

Bring it on, you chad-deprived socialist enviro-wacko scum!

[Lockbox]

The Loser is back.................let the games begin.

[GOP_Lady]

Gore -- Bore in '04
	GOP_Lady

[jdontom]

Gore from Tennessee has confided in his very top aides that he's determined to give it another try!

I wonder if Little Tommy knows about this yet. This ought to be fun to watch, remember there is a lot of circus acts in the bunch.

[mewzilla]

Thank you, Hillary.

Time to see if the Democrats have any sense of self-preservation.

[psjones]

One look at that picture and you can tell the man has been on a binge. Anyone needs a scary picture for halloween?

[GOP_Lady]

GBore in '04
	GOP_Lady

[Defender2]

Do you think there might be a connection between Gore and the Mcbride-Reno debacle with Miami-Dade and Broward Countys(DemonRat Controlled by the way)?

[Howlin]

LOL.....had that one all ready, did you?

[nimc]

All right! Two more years of algore jokes!

[Lockbox]

If Al Gore needs any more evidence that he's no longer Prince Albert of the Democrats, he'll get it this weekend. The 2004 presidential shopping season is under way--with the rich Democrats who write big campaign checks browsing for a candidate to support--and Gore may be a too familiar face in a crowded field. In 2000 he had the party's nomination and its fat-cat donors all to himself--but blew the race. This Friday, Saturday and Sunday the big-money players will be wooed at two competing events: Gore's "donor retreat" at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., and North Carolina Senator John Edwards' gathering of givers on St. Simmons Island, Georgia. And Edwards is holding his retreat at the home of R.J. Reynolds heir Smith Bagley, a party powerhouse who used to support Gore (Bagley's wife Elizabeth was the U.S. ambassador to Portugal during the Clinton years). Many Democratic donors say they are yearning for an alternative to Gore. "Been there, done that," says a big Hollywood fund raiser who is passing on Gore's Memphis event. "Everyone's looking for a fresh face."

http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/06/24/time.pass/

If Gore can’t read the tea leaves, at least he should read Time Magazine.

[PhilDragoo]

Yeah, for eight years we were on a binge

Inflating the economy, degrading the military, aiding the enemy.

But, Al.

Das Hundin von Buchenvald has those FBI files on you and Armand Hammer. . . .

[gcraig]

Bring it on Goremonster!

[Bubba_Leroy]

"It even rhymes, 'GORE IN '04!'"

Well hell then, that's as good a reason for algore to run as any I've ever heard.

Of course, "Still a Bore in '04" rhymes too.

[rintense]

I wonder if Algore asked Hillary's permission first???

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Gore gets the nomination only if the Hildebeast decides that she can't beat Bush in 04. Then she lets him have take his run clearing the field for her royal demoness in 08

[gcraig]

Bring it on Egore

[mewzilla]

I think it's more likely that it was Hilliary giving Algore his marching orders.