Letters to the Editor
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Gore--The GOP dream candidate
What many of Gore's fans are ignoring is that any candidate the GOP runs in 2008 can claim to have done more for National Security and to fight international terrorism in the past eight years than Al Gore. The debates would be a bloodbath. Imagine the simplest question: "In the past eight years as America faced the most deadly terrorist attack on her soil and was thrown into a diplomatic climate more fraught with uncertainty and tension than anytime in the past 25 years, what have you done to secure and protect the American people?"
"I made a movie about global warming."
Yeah that's kind of flip, but not far from the truth.
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This "Republican dream candidate" crap
Folks, the only candidate that is not a "dream" candidate for the Republicans is a schmuck like Bill Clinton who is 1/2 a Republican himself! Who the hell should the Democrats pick? Lieberman? Boy, they'd have trouble tearing him a new one, but that's only because to a great extent he already is a Republican. The Republicans will mercilessly rip into any even vaguely progressive candidate, so the idea that you can pick some bullet-proof tribune of the people whom the Republicans will respectfully disagree with and run an Eisenhoweresque campaing against is nuts. The Dems should just pick their man or woman and come out with all guns blazing like Truman did in 1948, ignore the taunts of the media idiots who want them to "play nice" and give it their best shot. Americans hate Democratic weakness much more than they have ever hated Democratic policies.
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Forget it
Gore is not going to run against Hillary. End of subject.
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I Don't Think It Matters Who We Pick
In terms of winning. It looks like the right wing radio mouths, FOX News and a pretty good cut of the republican party overall, are going to ride the Bush wagon right to the bitter end in 2008-------The bitter end being 56 or 58 Democratic Senators, 275 democratic House seats, and a democratic president.
At the moment the republican party has a sriking resemblance to the Japanese Kamikazi pilots.
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Too Good To Run?
I find one of the common comments about Gore and the 2008 race to be very odd, namely, that he is doing such great work as an advocate that he would, in effect, only lower himself by running.
But what does that say about democracy? That the best shouldn't run?
If Gore is to good to run, then democracy is too good for us.
Besides, he has the greatest slogan of all time: Reelect Gore.
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Excellent Advice
James Levy, PhD (no less) said: 'The Dems should just pick their man or woman and come out with all guns blazing like Truman did in 1948, ignore the taunts of the media idiots who want them to "play nice" and give it their best shot. Americans hate Democratic weakness much more than they have ever hated Democratic policies.'
Right on Doc! Pres. Truman wouldn't have taken any of this pathetic hypocritical Republican whining & name calling. If you have principles, you defend them & call a duck a duck & let the chips fall where they may.
I think the American voter respects passion such as Pres. Truman had in great abundance. One of VP Gore's & Sen Kerry's mistakes was that they kept on beating around the bush about the wacky absurd ideas these wack jobs have. Pres. Truman would have called them 'batshit crazy' & then explained in easily understandable talk just why they were batshit crazy & if you vote for them you'll be batshit crazy (and broke) as well.
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Another Kentucky Kiss for James Levy
Amen, Doc.
Last year we had two Democrats challenging long-term republican incumbents for Central KY congressional seats. John Yarmuth, a liberal, was given no chance at all and was ignored by the DCCC. Mike Weaver, a conservative, immediately leaped to the top of Rahm Emmanuel's list of likely winners and got national dem money.
Yarmuth ran as an unabashed liberal, excoriating bush and the republicans and everything they did and said. He stood tall as a liberal, called himself a proud liberal, yelled "damn right!" everytime the wingnuts called him a liberal.
Weaver tried, but he was hamstrung by instructions from the DCCC - don't criticize the war, don't criticize bush, don't criticize the republican congress, don't criticize the incumbent (!), don't, don't, don't. By November, even rabid democrats were asking what was the difference between Weaver and the waste-of-oxygen, wingnut incumbent.
Guess who won?
It was true everywhere in the country - democratic challengers who stood tall for what they believed and called out the motherfuckers for fucking their mothers won. Rahm's golden boys like Harold Ford ran as fake republicans and lost big.
The 2008 Democrat who will get my money (our primary is STILL in May, so our votes won't count) is the one who stands tall as a proud liberal and responds to every attack 10-fold.
After seeing An Inconvenient Truth, I really think that this time Gore could be that Democrat.
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Sorry, Al.
You had your chance to prevent GWB from becoming President, and you chose to not fight. You share some of the blame for the past 6 years. If for no other reason than your "inconvenient truth" cause you should have stood your ground and fought. You spineless asshole.
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Fed Up, it is simply irrational to blame Gore
for the legal decisions that made Bush the president. The questions in front of us should be the qualifications of our candidates and the winnability of the election.
Oh, Gore, Obama, 08!
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Oh c'mon, Joan...you're doing it on purpose now
This article sounds like something out of the pages of Tiger Beat. Replace "Democratic contenders" with "boy bands" and Al Gore turns into a surrogate Justin Timberlake for the over-40 estro-political set:
"I think the current crop of Democratic contenders might be the best of my lifetime. I like several of them; I haven't picked a favorite yet. But I still find myself wishing sometimes that former Vice President Al Gore would jump into the race.
Well golly gee jumping whillikers, what a surprise.
I met Gore once, almost a year ago, at Google (where else) where he was giving his global warming slide show. I'll admit it; I swooned. The slide show was astonishing, and so was Gore: funny, warm, self-deprecating, occasionally angry, just a real person -- all the things he wasn't when he was running for president in 2000.
Well there you have it. Certainly that's all that matters. Sorry, Barack Obama, you may have made a sincere effort at passing real legislation to ameliorate some of the major problems of our day, taken a principled stand against the war from the outset, managed to work with senior Republicans to get your reforms on the table, etc. but Al Gore is just so dreamy! Look at his black sport coat and snakeskin cowboy boats! He's a prophet!
Now let's all have a nice glass of Kool-Aid and watch John McCain or Rudy Giuliani trounce the next Democratic presidential candidate because liberals under the age of 30 are so damn sick and tired of the insular Democratic Political Elite who refuse to give up the shredded remnants of the Clinton Political Dynasty that they'd rather sit in their dorm rooms on election day and watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force because it makes more sense than the current political climate in America.