Gore to Make White House Decision Within 1 Months Time [Well Informed Dems Say He's Not Running]

ABC Political News Summary Page 'The Note' ^ | December 5, 2002 | Marc Ambinder

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Gore's Decision on a 2004 Run

Within a month, the former Vice President plans to be in or out.

These days, its almost harder to find Gore intimates who will predict that he will run than it is to find ones who say that their hunch is he won't.

Keeping in mind the very real possibility that Gore himself has not decided, there is a growing sense among well informed Democrats that the needle ISN'T straight up or down, and that he wont do it.

Par for the course, Debra Orin in the New York Post and ABC's The Note are leading parallel lives, in parallel universes this morning, although Deb has to go spoil our harmonic convergence by tagging her 'people think Gore might not run' story with some GOP polling suggesting that Jews are moving towards Bush.

Richard Cohen suggests that Gore is, well, a loser (while he also, much more shockingly considering the source, declares that President Bush is up to the job).

You might think that Gore's decision-whatever it is- would be stabilizing because it will do a lot to help set the party's 2004 field, but in fact, either way he decides, it will produce more instability.

[RightWhale]

Wishful thinking, an anti-Algore hitpiece. Algore already has the nomination.

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Where is the Alpha Male Gore's decision making powers when the libbies need him?

[BlessedAmerican]

Latest Amazon.com ratings: Spirit of the Family 3,134 and the other picture book,????, 1,447,733!!!! I kid you not. The more they tour the fewer books are sold!

[OldFriend]

Thing is, he had a chance to promote his book......his commie/lib friends in the media exploited him by encouraging him to bash the president. Considering the amazing success our beloved President had at the mid-term elections this was not a good idea.

[BuddhaBoy]

Gore isnt running until 2008. He knows he cant beat Bush, and that the country HATES Hillary, no matter what the Dems say. He wants to run against someone new from the Pubbies as an "Elder Statesman"

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[My2Cents]

He's also waiting to see whether the sales of his book improves.

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That's another possibility, Gore refuses to run and Sen. Hillary!ous steps in to fill the power vacumn..

[Dan Day]

Who's keeping odds on whether he uses the phrase, "you won't have Al Gore to kick around any more"?

[My2Cents]

Didn't he start his Jenny Craig last week?

The Return of Alpha Male!

[Dan Day]

Al, running:

[My2Cents]

ROFL....(catching breath...) I have to admit -- we are having WAY too much fun with all of this. But...Let the Good Times Roll!

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ROTFLOL! Now that is an editorial cartoon..

[My2Cents]

Hey, Al, might as well throw the bomb, because that's what another run will be...

[FryingPan101]

"Within a month, the former Vice President plans to be in or out."

The "joined-at-every-which-way-but-loose" crowd is watching the Louisiana race to see if Blacks can ever be rallied to vote for a white elitist again. His former campaign manager is down there trying to whip 'em up into a frenzy and it may not be working. Jesse Jackson and company down there trying to beat the Blacks up with guilt. Al Gore is praying for a miracle in the next week. If Blacks and Hispanics are sick to death of be herded onto the plantation, it's over for Gore and others.

[Wondervixen]

Look, Gore is a power hungry S.O.B. He WANTS the White House like it's his birthright.

He's running in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. He's the Al Smith of our generation!

[Cuttnhorse]

Look, Gore is a power hungry S.O.B. He WANTS the White House like it's his birthright.

I agree with you vixen...and he has the nomination if he wants it...the demos' worst fear and the Repubs' great hope.

[Endeavor]

lieberman

[AndyTheBear]

Gore isnt running until 2008. He knows he cant beat Bush...

Yes, he would be smarter not to run until 2008--but does he have the displine to not run?

[Common Tator]

Gore IS running

I don't think he is running. It is more like cantoring.

It could be he is going a little faster than a cantor... say loping.

Maybe he is not going that fast... Perhaps something in between Yes, that's it. Gore is doing the cantalope.

Have you ever seen the rear end of a horse doing the cantalope?

That's Gore... exactly;