Gore: A 2004 rematch with Bush would be too focused on the past

Associated Press ^ | 12-16-02 | AARON BEARD

[Oldeconomybuyer]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Al Gore said Monday he's "at peace" with his decision to forgo what could be his last shot at the White House, mostly because a rematch with President Bush in 2004 would force him to revisit the ordeal of their last go-round.

[gramho12]

Blah,blah,blah. I was sick and tired of Gore in 2000, and I'm even more sick and tired of him now. Enough already!

[Cicero]

What a moron. Bush has never looked back. The chad war was entirely Gore's doing. Gore and his friends were the ones who kept it alive. That's why people don't think chads whenever they see Bush, but when the see Gore they can think of little else. Maybe his beard.

[Republic]

What a bunch of hogwash from Gore. (But what's new?)

That miserable man isn't doing this because he is afraid of issues being focused on the past-he has been out there FOCUSING issues on the his loss since it happened (with the exception of his european adventure-the fat, the booze, the beard and the general do-nothing vacation he and tippy took). In fact-just weeks ago he was asking a crowd he was addressing if they remembered how they 'felt' (oh gag me with a chad) when the election fiasco came down?

Gore is always gore-no matter how much people say he is changing his image. He will never change his nature. He is a liar. Billy klinton chose his VP well. Billy knew exactly what kind of an ambitious, willing to do anything to win kind of guy gore is.

What gore should have said, when announcing his unstellar decision to run, is " I am not running because I don't want a defeat in 2004 to take away from the fact that I won the popular vote."

Oh well, I guess we can be glad he is announcing his 2004 defeat now. Better than having him quit while in the race like democrats seem to think is a good way to increase their chances of winning. What jerks dems are. Puke city.

[Jim Robinson]

Well, the head sore of the Sore/Loserman 2000 ticket wimps out and the bottom half of the loserman team moves up a notch.

The big question now is, should the RAT primary campaign slogan be:

Joe Loserman/2004

or

Loserman II for '04

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Algore is positioning himself as "the liberal voice" of the democrat party. As pathetic as that sounds, that's how I read his recent speech's (national healthcare) and his decision not to run (NFW he'd win as a liberal).

[cake_crumb]

This article SHOULD have been titled

"The AP and Al re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-revisit the 2000 Florida re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-recounts....and Al concedes that the election was stolen...again and again and again and again and again and again...."

All right...that's too long for a title, but it sums up the entire 'article' in a lot fewer words.

[ClearCase_guy]

I felt the focus of that race would inevitably been more on the past than it should have been, when all races should be focused on the future,"

Translation: "Whenever people see me they think of what an enormous LOSER I was in the past election. I was hoping that some people would have hopes that I could do better in the future, but our polls indicate that no one feels that way."

[AF68]

"Because a race this time around would have focused on a Bush-Gore rematch, I felt the focus of that race would inevitably been more on the past than it should have been, when all races should be focused on the future," Gore said...

[cubreporter]

What he means is a 2004 rematch with Bush would be a landslide for Bush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Paul Atreides]

Al Gore was the one who was trying to drum up votes for KKTownsend by saying a vote for her was a way to get back at the Republicans for 2000.

[jws3sticks]

All Bore is All Gone, Yeh!

but watch out for HRC!!

[jws3sticks]

Here is the view from my part of town: