Gore More Years

I am a progressive at heart... but being weaned on Howard Dean I can't "sacrifice the good for the perfect."

Kucinich is great for getting the issues out on the table and I applaud him......Loudly. But I believe he can not win..... not anywhere near winning.

Many progressives shun me for not backing Kucinich.

I am holding my breath till Al Gore announces his candidacy. Gore is not as progressive as I'd wish but way more then most candidates.

Hook him up with Edwards health proposal and we would have a hell of a team...

Since the last time Gore ran he is a new man. He isn't playing the Dem beltway game. He doesn't have to. His face is everywhere right now and it's all uncontested campaigning.

Gore could heal the Nation and our reputation internationally.

xxxooo's
~retta

The World This Week: Gore More Years

Only one person may be capable of getting us out of this mess

By Alan Bisbort
Staff Writer

February 22 2007

If he enters the race in 2008, Al Gore will be elected President of the United States. This race can’t even be termed “his to lose.” He won’t lose if he runs. Period.

Of course, he didn’t “lose” the first time, though the right-wing echo chamber that, prior to the advent of the blogosphere, dictated the content of public discourse in this country, began the “Sore Loserman” chant and drowned out the truth. We’re now stuck with a true “Loser” who has led us to the edge of a cliff and threatens to drag all of us into the precipice with him.

If any “losing” has accrued to Al Gore, it’s due to what happened before the election, when he foolishly added that snake Joe “Make Nice To Cheney” Lieberman to the ticket and then, afterwards, for not taking Joe out to the woodshed and then emerging with the resolve of Tony Soprano to yank the election away from the moles dispatched by the Republican Party to undermine the will of the people. In a better world, Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush, James Baker, and Scalia-Thomas would be in prison, George W. Bush would be carrying on, jumping in and out of Betty Ford clinics for the rest of his life, Condi Rice would pen unreadable scholarly articles on Russia and bore the pants off Stanford seminar students, Cheney would shoot more millionaires in the face and Rumsfeld would sell weapons to our nation’s enemies.

But, getting back to the harsh reality of the present day, the only question that remains about the outcome of the 2008 election — should Gore run — is who is his ideal running mate. Last week, I had the privilege of speaking with Edward O. Wilson, the great Harvard biologist, at the Museum of Science in Boston. Though Dr. Wilson was there as the eminence grise for the opening of Darwin — a magnificent exhibit guaranteed to freak out the Creationists — he really wanted to talk about Al Gore. When I suggested that he repeat his vow to save the earth’s remaining threatened species to “the next president Al Gore” — I heard Wilson make this vow at a Connecticut Forum four years ago — he said, “I already have, because Al Gore is a friend.”

He then described an event he recently attended with Gore, a tribute to Prince Charles for his largely unsung environmental work. Wilson said, “If Al Gore can transfer the speech he gave that night to the political arena he would win the election. He may be our only hope.”

We both agreed that though Barack Obama is an appealing candidate, he’s still a work-in-progress and that a Gore-Obama ticket would be the perfect solution for burying the GOP for the next 16 years.(my emphasis lhb) Wilson then said, “If the DLC ever figures out Hillary Clinton is unelectable, the word will go out to draft Gore.”

Far be it from me to contradict such a brilliant man as Edward O. Wilson, but that word has already gone out. Bigtime, as Dick Cheney would say. Not only is the subject of Gore’s possible candidacy a regular heated topic on Daily Kos, the most popular political blog, a group of Gore-ophiles has started a Web site called DraftGore.com.

I think Kos himself (Markos Moulitsas) said it best a couple weeks back: “One reason I’m not jumping aboard any 2008 bandwagons is that I’ll wait as long as necessary to see if Gore will jump in. That’s ultimately my guy … Gore was just nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize … The prize will be announced in mid-October. So say Gore scores an Oscar and Nobel in the same year, he can announce in November and still become THE story in the primaries … He would instantly raise gobs of cash and become the media sensation of the winter. He would instantly make hundreds of millions spent by his primary opponents obsolete. Talent would flock to him, decimating the staffs of his opponents.”

OK, Al. The ball is in your court. This time we won’t let them steal it.

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