Carter Endorses Gore
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Tuesday's edition of ABC's "The Note," reports that in an appearance on Charlie Rose, Jimmy Carter endorsed Al Gore for president:
I think Al Gore is the best qualified to be president. And I agree with him on the environment and his critique of the Iraqi war. I don't agree with him on everything. He would be my preference, yes. I think he would do well in the South. And I think a lot of Democrats know he was elected in 2000 and should have been president. I wouldn't say it would be a sympathy vote, but his credentials are good.
Okay, fine, Carter supports Gore in '08. But can't he show some class and stop beating the bloody, mutilated, decayed corpse of the 2000 elections?
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"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
If Al Gore does decide to run for President in '08, then he can help damage Senator Hillary Clinton's chances of ever becoming President in '08 or ever! Al Gore's running for President can also help to boost the chances of whoever the GOP ends up getting behind in the '08 Presidential race as well as possibly help in creating some political coattails for the GOP at every political level below the Presidency. Much of what does happen will also depend upon the efforts of the GOP by themselves for the next two years.
Right now Hillary is a strong front-runner on the Dem side. She is the person to beat. But there are many who want to see her beaten, and will rally to someone who can do that. But the primary timetable is very tight. Anyone who plans to beat her will need to emerge early on.
Gore and/or Kerry entering a race which already has Clinton in it will make it harder for a less well-known candidate to emerge. They will absorb a lot of support and money that could otherwise flow to someone more electable.
If Gore comes second in Iowa and Kerry comes second in New Hampshire, where is the challenger to Clinton going to enter the race?
I should add that there is one unstated premise here, which is that neither Gore nor Kerry can actually beat Clinton in the primaries. Perhaps you disagree with that premise.
Quentin Langley
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...with that premise in the case of Gore. I think it'd be tight. I hear 10 nice things from libs about Gore for every 1 nice thing I hear about Clinton. On the other hand, for every negative remark about Clinton I hear from libs, I hear 10 about Kerry. So I also don't think he'll take new Hampshire. I seem to remember something about him polling low even in the NE, though the link escapes me. So I think you underestimate Gore, but overestimate Kerry.
Though all of this is academic, as I don't think Gore will run.
For the record, I'm anything BUT a conservative and tilt about as far left as they come.
That said, if you think Hillary is going to win the Democratic primary, you're dead wrong. If they were held today, she'd lose in an landslide.
The Democratic base by and large does NOT like Hillary at all. Take my word for it. She might stand a chance in the general election, but most of us who would be considered the Democratic base hate her position on the war and have grown weary of the DLC "Republican-lite" wing of the Democratic party in general.
By contrast, if Gore entered the primaries today, he'd take it in a landslide.
As much as I hate to give advice to the "other side", you guys generally give Hillary WAY to much credit and nowhere NEAR enough to Gore.
That said, I'd love to see Gore v Gingrich in '08. I hate Newt and think he's an utter swine (especially with his comments yesterday), but to his credit, he is the ONLY person on the right putting out any real, bold ideas for the direction of the country both in general and specific terms, as Gore is doing also on the left.
that are Repubs. The Dem rank and file are much more sexist and racist that the GOP rank and file, and the male leadership of the Dem Party deem the leadership their privileged positions given all they sacrifice to help women and minorities. Kind of like a plantation mentality. Just another reason I left the party in 6/2001 after 20 years in it.
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What is it I am wrong about? That she is the current front-runner? That she could beat Gore or Kerry? Or that she is vulnerable to being beaten by someone with less baggage?
Those were the main thrusts of my post, with the suggestion being that Gore and/or Kerry entering the race will suck money, support, and publicity away from someone who would be able to beat her.
Quentin Langley
Editor of http://www.quentinlangley.net
I have been thinking for some time that with the Iran issue heating up that whomever the Democrats pick to run in '08 they ought to get the "Carter Treatment". Everything that they say or do should be likened to what Carter would say or do.
Whenever Iran comes up, we just pull out the hostage crisis and the failed rescue attempt with the title "The Democrats Response to Terror". Dig up those pictures of the burned out helicopters in the desert.
I mean they way that they talk, the Democrats should be wetting their pants to get a Carter Clone to run, right? I mean he has lots of diplomatic experience with Iran already under his belt, he's a Nobel Peace prize winner, he's known for always choosing the diplomatic approach on everything. Oh and we all remember his energy policy successes, right, remember the only PEACE TIME gas rationing in our history?
Whomever they run in '08, I think that should be painted as Carter II.
Republicans: We're still proud of America!
why didn't the Dems just run him again in 2004? He'd have won in a cakewalk right?
They know he's a LOSER as a Presidential candidate that's why. They like him giving these fiery BS speeches but they know he's a LOSER.
Unfortunately for the Dems they found an even bigger LOSER to take his place in 2004. He also "won" but had the election stolen in Ohio right? How about a Gore/Kerry ticket in 2008 - take the two guys who were robbed of being in the White House and put them where they rightfully belong. C'mon Dems - I dare you!
The Dems wouldn't kick these guys to the curb unless they knew they're both LOSERS.
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"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
since Carter displayed any class on anything that might be political?
...because Gore still keeps flailing about with respect to 2000? I mean, it does make Gore look like one of those third-world autocrats that Carter seems so fond of (Kim, Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Ortega...). Considering the positions Carter has been taking recently, the sore loser mentality of Gore is possibly what endears him to the old peanut farmer.
"I could explain, but that would be very long, very convoluted, and make you look very stupid. Nobody wants that... except maybe me."
but stupid is not one of them. The "Gore was elected" meme is very much alive among Democrats; I've heard it as recently as last month from a Democrat from whom I would never have expected that kind of idiocy. Carter is just "minding his knotting" with the party faithful.
John
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you'd get an expert in nuclear weapons.
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Bipartisanship = give + take. Republicans give. Democrats take.
A Gore/Kerry ticket for 2008?
Can you imagine... an entire campaign comprised of daily... (hourly?) episodes of Dumb and Dumber?
(oh please God... please, please, please...)
_"Even when you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."_
Has to be the dumbest question ever posed on RS. Of course the craven old sot cant show any class, he has none.
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Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
speech and the "Khomeni is a religious man I can deal with."
examples are too numerous to cite given bandwidth
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All these Carter quotes are making me feel malaise.
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...put on a sweater and hug a dictator.
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"I will guarantee you that John Kerry will be president of the United States." - Nancy Pelosi
i feel for ole jimmuh. he has tried for so long to be relevant that he's resorted to endorsing Gore over whomever the nominee will be.
If that doesn't drive a stake right through the heart of ol' Al's campaign.
Pity though, I looked forward to ol' Al going through that wood chipper called the Clinton Political Machine. e'd end up like LeRoy Brown; 'the only part that wasn't bloody were the soles of the big mans feet'
giggle
Hopefully, not much. I think the Dems need a good old fashioned demagogic Anti-American purveyor of hate, pounding the table, stretching his neck cords, hollering, sweating and rousing the kooks up for another standing ovation.
I agree with the analysis that Gore's potential as a Dem candidate is underestimated. He says what a lot of leftists think - far more clearly than does "Triangulating Hillary". He is the most visible leader of the Ned Lamont Wing of the Dem party. And he allows all of them to re-live the "injustices" of the Florida recount and subsequent Supreme Court decision. They love that stuff.
The Dem nomination may end up as a bloodbath between the Clintonistas and the Hate America crowd. Should be fun to watch.
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After campaigning in 2000 on the relatively good economy of the Clinton years, Gore doesn't need voters to be reminded of Carter's 10% unemployment, 13% inflation, and 20% home-mortgage rates, especially if the economy in 2008 resembles the current economy.
For those Democrats who try to sell Bush's invasion of Iraq as a "distraction" from the Iran threat, reminders of Carter's turning Iran from an ally into a terrorist threat won't go over well either.
Since Kerry is pretty much washed-up as a Presidential candidate, and would also have to run for the Senate in 2008, Gore seems like the strongest candidate of the anti-war / Greenie wing of the Democrat Party, but it's doubtful that he could win the primary against Hillary. He would also be hindered by the defection of his former running mate Joe Lieberman, who will be an outspoken independent "swing vote" in the new Senate, who will probably oppose Gore on national security and military issues. A Gore candidacy might force Hillary to move left to win the primary, which will make it harder for her to move back to the "center-left" for the general election.
A Gore candidacy would also present a quandary for Clinton voters: do they nominate his Vice President or his wife?
The bad news: Conservatism is hard to sell. The good news is that it works.
I thought most Americans really do have no idea just how terrorist loving President Carter is and always has been?
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. -- Calvin Coolidge
I wouldn't be shocked if AlGore grew a pair and ran again. He may have sent word to Feingold as to what his intentions were...
It would explain Feingold's recent decision not to run.
That all being said, Jimmy Carter's endorsement is slightly more sought after than Jon Cary's, just not much.
2006 is done, 2008 is another day and another fight