Posted on 10/19/2002 7:36:30 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
No, remember Al Gore is the one who DIDN"T know he was even AT a fund raiser! Seems he still doesn't! LOL!
Hillary Clinton is the party's the most popular presidential candidate,
Now that isn't funny at all!
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Former Vice President Al Gore came to Wisconsin to raise money for Jim Doyle and other Democratic candidates Wednesday, but it wasn't your usual ballyhooed media event.
All sessions were by invitation only and held behind closed doors.
The press had no advance notice of Gore's visit, and a reporter who showed up at a luncheon featuring Gore at Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel was shooed from the room by state Democratic Party aides.
And, unlike events with other prominent Democratic politicians, Doyle, the state attorney general and candidate for governor, made no public appearances with Gore, who, despite his narrow loss to George W. Bush in 2000, remains one of the most prominent Democrats in the country.
Although Doyle said he was pressed for time because he had to hustle to the gubernatorial debate in Eau Claire, political experts suspect there was another reason for the kid-gloves approach:
Doyle wanted to avoid publicity with Gore - perhaps because of Gore's recent criticism of President Bush for pushing to use military force in Iraq.
"My guess is they were afraid that Al Gore could be a negative for Doyle," said Ed Miller, a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point political science professor. Doyle's campaign may have feared he'd appear too liberal by association with Gore, Miller said.
Doyle has positioned himself as a moderate in the race for governor, with a constant emphasis on avoiding tax increases.
"Especially when Doyle has a lead (in the polls), he didn't want to do anything to jeopardize that lead," Miller said.
David Littig, a UW-Green Bay political scientist, agreed with that analysis. "Gore is perhaps damaged goods," Littig said. Doyle and the Democratic Party may not have wanted to risk the possibility of alienating any voters by too close an association with Gore, Littig said.
C'mon, Al, you're gonna have to do better than that to crank the Fraud machine up in Wisconsin, New Mexico and Florida again.
Yes it is.
ROTFL
This brings to mind his picture in the khakis, remember?
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