Posted on 06/29/2002 7:09:58 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
Gore Vows More Spontaneous Campaign
Gore Promises More Spontaneous, Less Restrained Campaign if He Runs for President in 2004
MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 29 — Al Gore told top Democratic fund-raisers Saturday that the party's 2000 campaign had too many consultants and that if he runs for president again he will speak from the heart and "let it rip."
The former vice president attended a weekend retreat with about 60 fund-raisers and Democratic Party activists from across the country.
Reporters were barred from the meetings, but aides and others said Gore promised a different kind of campaign than the Democrats ran in 2000, when he lost to George W. Bush.
Gore said that campaign had "too much strategy, too many consultants giving too much advice," said Chris Korge, a party fund-raiser from Miami.
"If he were to do this again ... he would not be so guarded. He would let it rip and let the chips fall where they may," Korge quoted Gore as saying.
Strategy sessions for this year's November elections were the main focus of the retreat.
In brief comments in a hotel hallway, Gore said he was "extremely encouraged by the level of enthusiasm ... that we're going to have a successful 2002 election."
He said that that encouragement also applied to his possible second run for the presidency.
"Well, sure, but I'm not addressing that decision this weekend and probably won't until after the first of the year," he said.
Gore said he "would spend more time speaking from the heart" on "the basic challenges of the country."
"We're at a time when very basic decisions have to be made about the direction of our country, and I don't think the American people want to see small tactical moves in one direction or another" by political candidates, he said.
Since the 2000 election, the former Tennessee congressman and senator has spent a lot of time in his home state, where he and wife Tipper recently bought a $2.3 million home in Belle Meade, an affluent community bordering Nashville.
Gore said he plans to campaign heavily in Tennessee for the state's Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate and governor.
Isn't that when he's at his looniest?
He's about as spontaneous as a three-toed sloth.
Yes indeed. But what Gore's campaign didn't have, was enough "strategery".
Strategy sessions for this year's November elections were the main focus of the retreat.
Deargawdinheaven, can they HEAR the irony?
Well, if he lets it "rip", I wouldn't exactly call that "speaking from the heart". I'd be more incline to call it "talking through his a**". But then again, how is that different from the last campaign?
Yep. MORE viscious personal attacks, MORE fear-mongering, MORE race-baiting, and MORE and BIGGER lies.
You know, the only things democraps know how to do spontaneously (or any other way).
I agree, nothing could please me more. Unleashing the spontaneous Gore would be the stupidest move they could possibly make. The spontaneous Gore is a bragging, borish and weird. The only reason he did as well as he did was because of the 2x-year-old Bush DUI story.
BTW, since all of the Dem elites relize this, I don't think they'll let Gorebot run again. They were embarrassed by him last time and won't risk it again. I'm betting on Bob Kerrey and John Edwards for the 2004 ticket.
This would be a terrible ticket since they're both filthy rich and full of enough hauter to make roomful of people pass out.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA ... RUN AL ... RUN!!!
Er...Al...I think you already blew it buddy.
Yeah, more touchy, feely crap is exactly what I what to hear. A person is judged by his actions and the way he treats folks. A former secret service agent who worked for both campaigns told me that ALL the Gores and gorebots were complete and utter a**holes, while the Bushies treated them more like family. I hope we have finally learned that character does count.
Now that would be a barf alert.
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