[friendly]

Oh dear God, PLEASE let Al Gore be on the Comeback Trail, please, please, please.....

[Wphile]

If Bush's approval rating is still high in 2004 (and who knows what it will be), they will send up Gore as the sacrificial lamb. No point in wasting perceived talent on a losing campaign. But, as Al Hunt (who I cannot stand) points out, Gore is politically tone deaf and would be stupid enough to go up against a popular president.

I sure hope it plays out this way. But first, we have to TAKE BACK THE SENATE!!!

[Wright is right!]

"Oh dear God, PLEASE let Al Gore be on the Comeback Trail, please, please, please....."

Yup, it's Br'er Rabbit vs. Br'er Fox and the briar patch all over again. As someone else pointed out, IF Dubya's popularity ratings hold even in the mid-to-high 60's by 2004, Algore (who's now a caricature of himself - i.e., he's funnier than SNL's parody of him) will indeed be the ritual mutton. Better to go ahead with the coup de grace now and let someone else have a crack out of it in 2008.

Al DID have one interesting nugget - Edwards of NC not taking the bait and, instead, going for a repeat in the Senate. It's actually the safer move. He's young enough to wait out the Presidential Sweepstakes, and he would have a fair shot at reelection. But I don't see Edwards taking anyone's Number Two. That would be political death. Especially when you consider who he'd be Number Two TO - Liebermann? Gore? Dip Geckhardt? Oh, please.

You've got to understand where Al Hunt is coming from. He and Judy aren't that young any more - and although both are paid well, the DNC "takes care of them" in innumerable hidden ways - and Al isn't about to buck THAT gravy train.

Michael

[Moby Grape]

I agree...PLEASE let Al Gore be on the comback trail....of course, Al Hunt doesn't know his a**hole from a hole in the ground.

[timestax]

Oh dear God, PLEASE let Al Gore be on the Comeback Trail, please, please, please..... 2 posted on 6/13/02 7:14 AM Pacific by friendly

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