Posted on 05/08/2006 8:02:22 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
...(Gore's denials) aren't persuasive to some Democrats, including former Clinton-Gore White House insiders. "I do know that he's thinking about it. I know for a fact," a former adviser says. "He's talked to people about the pros and cons."
Among those said to be pushing Mr. Gore are billionaire venture capitalist and high-tech entrepreneur John Doerr and Laurie David, a global-warming activist and producer of the film, and wife of "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator Larry David.
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But, she adds, he changes the subject whenever it comes up, and had to be talked into making the movie when she pitched it.
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"His star will never be higher than it is right now with his movie coming out," says Democratic consultant Karen Skelton, Mr. Gore's former political director.
The Gore buzz reflects a sense among even some pro-Clinton Democrats that Mrs. Clinton...can't win the general election because she is a polarizing figure to many voters. These skeptics believe only someone such as Mr. Gore with the celebrity and fund-raising potential to match Mrs. Clinton could stop her.
Like Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Gore remains a negative figure to many voters, says a Democrat who has seen private polls. For both, that might only increase with the spectacle of a Clinton-Gore brawl. Even insiders can't fully account for the bad blood that has built up since... Several insiders say Mr. Gore is more likely to run if Mrs. Clinton does than if she doesn't.
Also controversial among Democrats was Mr. Gore's 2004 endorsement of Howard Dean...
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He's totally cereal about running?
This would be a huge division within the Democratic Party and a race to see who could be more leftist....
If he doesn't run, HE'S BETRAYED THIS COUNTRY!!!
:-p
OK, I have to admit it, the DUmmies are right....
Karl Rove DOES control the world.
Man...will that manbearpig episode of South Park stick, if he does.
This is great news. Run, Al, run!
And it just might get the Republican naysayer's out to vote.
Please, Lord let Goron run again!
Al Gore must be going to Patrick Kennedy's doctor.
Gore/Dean 2008! Bwahahaha.
I'm pulling for the Hillary/Obama Nation '08. Such a beautifully fitting bumper sticker that would be.
Thank God!
Ali-Gore is the only man that can save the Earth from overheating - both from man's use of fossel fuels and war.
He will ban all automobiles, except for the elite.
He will surrender immediately to the Islamists...
He will bring PEACE IN OUR TIME.
Semper Fi
Run Al, run!. Mother Earth needs you.
May the Green Pro Islamofascist Goron run on the Green ticket as the Green/Peace/No War for Oil candidate funded by the Opecker Princes and Thugs.
Then George $oreA$$ can fund $inato Hildebea$T to run as the head rat.
Besides cancelling each other out re voters, they could burn/waste billions of $'s in a losing campaign.
Algore and Jean-Fraud trying to elbow Hitlery out... what fun...
Please, please, please algore, RUN! Pleeze!!
He plans on pouring molten lava over his opponents.
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