While God, of course, loves me and wishes for me to be happy...
...*this* much?
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Enough to gift me and mine with this?
Friends of Al Gore have secretly started assembling a campaign team in preparation for the former American vice-president to make a fresh bid for the White House.
Two members of Mr Gore's staff from his unsuccessful attempt in 2000 say they have been approached to see if they would be available to work with him again.
Mr Gore, President Bill Clinton's deputy, has said he wants to concentrate on publicising the need to combat climate change, a case made in his film, An Inconvenient Truth, which won him an Oscar this year.
But, aware that he may step into the wide open race for the White House, former strategists are sounding out a shadow team that could run his campaign at short notice. In approaching former campaign staff, including political strategists and communications officials, they are making clear they are not acting on formal instructions from Mr Gore, 59, but have not been asked to stop.
I mean, I try to be a good person and everything, but I don't think that I'm all that deserving.
Read on. (Yeah, I know, it's a rumor. Let's just pretend for a moment that it's a founded one.)
Not to contradict Captain Ed on this, but even if it's true it's not going to particularly worry Senator Clinton. The person that it needs to worry is former Senator Edwards, who is probably counting on Gore not running to eventually boost his ranking. Gore has to knock out first him, then Senator Obama if he wants to go after Clinton - and a nice three-way knife fight is precisely what the junior Senator from NY would like to see happen in the primaries, especially since she won't be in it.
Ed thinks that Gore can wipe the floor with Edwards and Obama: frankly, I doubt it. The former will have the fundraising edge and the latter's simply more engaging on his worst days than Gore is on his best. For that matter, both candidates know that if they don't get the nomination now they'll be at a disadvantage in 2012, should a Democrat win. In 2012 Barack Obama will probably be a second-term Senator accumulating legislative baggage and John Edwards will just be a guy with a truly ugly country home. They'll go down swinging; and it's not like Gore is the sort to suffer in silence, so they probably have a good idea where to hit.
So run, Al. Run, and amuse me greatly.
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Maybe the Goracle will go ALL IN and run on the Green Party ticket and take the rabid hard left with him thus spitting the Democrat Party and assurring a Rodham loss. Delicious payback for 2000 when Hillary's "endorsement" and support for the Goron was, shall we say, less than enthusiastic.
Nah, that's too much to hope for.
Nevertheless the fistfight(do "those people" fight with fists?) for the Demonrat nomination will be fun to watch.
...with a somewhat tepid response there. I think they want to lynch Nader, though. It's odd how this Unity 08 Party seems to be talked about on the left much more than the right, and the left seems to be taking it seriously. I think it's an attempt to sell a third party now with Corinthian leather, but I'm just some guy. Have any of Redstate's pros written about it, or is it a waste of time?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add...
In the democratic primaries. He is probably a more credible candidate in the general election as well.
Of course we are only arguing over the magnitude of the loss the democrats have.
Look at his positives
No voting record on the war
Instant connection with the nutroots
An actual record in both public an private sector
Much less annoying than Hillary (Being captured by terrorists is also in this category)
Isn't the punchline edwards has become.
The house thing is a big negative but oh joy the damage that can be done.
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While it might provide a bit of entertainment, realistically, I don't see how Gore entering the race is good news for the GOP. With Warner and Bayh out of the race, I think that Gore is a more credible general election candidate than any of the current crop of front runners on the Democratic side.
In a neutral environment I would expect him to be an underdog to any of Rudy / Romney / McCain / Thompson, but I'm afraid that the 2008 environment is going to be every bit as bad as 2006 was for the GOP. In fact, factor in that the economy can only be worse, and the playing field might even be more lopsided.
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On the one hand, you're probably correct that AlGore isn't a punchline, like Edwards.
However, he IS a complete joke, to those of us with eyes and ears. Unfortunately, he's not a particularly funny joke, and downright dangerous, with the support he gets from the left.
Probably a more viable candidate than some, but his performance in 2000 sealed the deal for his WH aspirations, IMHO.
I wouldn't underestimate Al Gore's chances of winning the Democratic nomination if he runs. A lot of the far left is disgusted with Hillary for her Iraq War stance and other issues. Ever since Gore lost he has been absolutely hard left, leading their party in Republican-bashing, environmental wackiness, and opposition to the war.
There is also the issue of stature & experience. All my life I have seen early enthusiasm for inexperienced candidates like Obama fade in the last weeks before the nomination and before the election as voters realize "Hey, this is not just a popularity contest. This guy will have his finger on the nuclear button." There is no better preparation for the presidency than being vice-president.
If Gore gets into the race, it could benefit Republicans since the Democrat party might be badly split and divided by the fight for the nomination. If Hillary started to fall behind in the polls, I'd look for her to play the gender card by saying she deserved the nomination, but they didn't want to give it to a woman.
If Gore runs, the Clintons won't hold anything back. The Clintons are known as being the nastiest team in politics, and they won't pull their punches against Gore just because he's a Democrat.
Hillary can't stop talking about Imus, which is more evidence for the theory that Clinton forces took him down and are leaving him twisting in the wind as an example of what they can do to their enemies.
Polls see Obama gaining as Hillary appears waning
The race for the Democratic presidential nomination has tightened significantly between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, according to recent polls that show a sharp increase among voters who have negative opinions of the former first lady.
The New York senator held on to her front-runner status last week, but pollsters and political analysts said she was losing strategic segments of her party's base, including younger, single women, liberals and independents.
Mrs. Clinton's favorability score fell from 58 percent in February to 45 percent last week her lowest Gallup score since 1993. Fifty-two percent said they have a negative view of her candidacy.
Gallup's survey of registered voters last week found that Mrs. Clinton had lost her double-digit lead over Mr. Obama of Illinois, who now trails her by five percentage points.
"It's still early in the campaign and it's hard to bet against a Clinton. They're winners. However, the inevitability factor is no longer there," independent pollster John Zogby said.
"Hillary isn't wearing well. It seems as if the more people see her, the less they like her," Dick Morris wrote on the Town Hall Web site last week.
"Now, for the first time, her low likability levels are costing her votes, as Democratic Party voters are abandoning her to support Barack Obama," said Mr. Morris, who served as a campaign adviser to former President Bill Clinton.
Democrats appear to be moving away from Mrs. Clinton and toward her two strongest rivals, Mr. Obama and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, Mr. Zogby said.
"Democratic voters right now say they want someone who stands for what they believe, and that points to Obama and to Edwards," he said.
On the heels of a burst of successful fund-raising, Democratic 2008 presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama has pulled even with frontrunner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a new poll released on Monday found.
Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, has steadily gained on Clinton, a veteran on the national political scene, over the last month and each now polled 32 percent among likely Democratic voters, the survey by Rasmussen Reports found. Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina was third in the poll with 17 percent.
I do believe this Gore "planning" for a 2008 presidential bid is for real. Does anyone REALLY think "An Inconvenient Truth" was made so good old Al could grab an Oscar? No way. Al Gore's near miss against Bush has never left him, he knows how close he came and he wants it back. I gotta believe somewhere in his den there is a poster saying, " I Was Robbed I Tell Ya!"
I also agree that Obama's "allure" will fade...and fast. And Gore would knock Edwards' numbers into the low single digits.
What Gore is counting on is three-fold:
1. Hillary's vote FOR the Iraq War and perhaps more support of it than any other Dem
2. Continued high negative opinion numbers of Hillary - Gore will convince the DNC that Hillary just cannot win the big one
3. Hillary's involvement in violating the FEC regs back in her 2000 Senate campaign with businessman Paul. If that comes to light in the MSM (another viral video from Obama camp???) - it could really show Hillary as one of the "corrupt" in the Washington scene.
Gore's national exposure due to his Global Warming Initiatives was orchestrated from Day One - it's been a marketing marvel.
Every local newscast here in the Twin Cities the past week has had their own "special series" on how to turn us Green - it's like a wild fire on the prairies in late July.
Take a look at recent polling numbers of the declared Dems when Gore's name is added to the mix - Al'l been watching that - he truly believes he is being written-in by a big majority of Dems and I look to see him announce in early Fall.
At the same time, I do disagree with Gore's chances against the Republicans. I think if you put up a polling of Gore and Hillary in with Rudy, Romney, McCain and even Thompson, you'd see Gore at #1. His "Climate Change" soapbox is more full of holes than a back alley building in Fallujah but the American people have bought it - hook, line and sinker and they view this man as a leader now.
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as the credibility in his ridiculous hysteria mongering over the climate loses credibility.
Note Gore is no longer selling 'global warming' it is now 'climate change'. The insincertiy, the hypocrisy, the lying, the bad science, and the climate itself, will see that people are adequately reminded of jsut what a phony blowhard Gore is.