[Miss Didi]

Simple. The DNC is operated by Clinton hacks. Gore is smart enough to know that if he runs in the Dem party, he has no chance. He's also smart enough to know that if he runs as a Green, he will most likely kill Hil's chances. I think its the second thing that really motivates him. There is no love lost between Gore and the Clintons.

Right...and he has nothing to lose. If he's on the Green ticket, expectations will be lower and he won't be such a loser when he loses. He will get revenge for the Bubbas at the same time. And when it's all over, he still has oodles of cash and stock, his movie will be in every American school, he'll be a Nobel Prize winner, and he can go on saving the planet. Life is grand for Algore.

[rintense]

He really is in the catbird seat, albeit, an extended sized seat.

[fortunecookie]

If he's on the Green ticket, expectations will be lower and he won't be such a loser when he loses.

Not only that, but Algore can then try on the Dem ticket in '12 if he likes. Hollywood will love him, he'll surely keep up his environmental-savior role, it's cashing in with the rich Hollywood types. He would conceivably 'win' in another way, even if he loses in '08. Everybody loves an underdog, a lovable 'loser', and after his 'valiant' attempt in '08, and no doubt his dire warnings about the 'worsening' environment, he'd stand a good chance of getting even more votes. Heck, he'd even have time to make a movie sequel, 'The Even More Inconvenient Truth', to replenish his coffers. Yes, he has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

And think of it - he trumps Bill Clinton. He gets what Bill has been wanting since 2000, lots and lots of media and leftie-elite attention. Win again.