Gore Planning to Run?
posted at 6:48 pm on April 22, 2007 by see-dubya
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The Telegraph says he’s getting together a secret team…or, more correctly, he’s allowing a team to assemble “secretly” on his behalf but not telling them not to do so.
That’s leadership.
Apparently he thinks that the endorsement of the Hollywood glitterati at the Oscars will translate into national acclimation, because America loves getting moral advice from Hollywood. He would basically be running on the notoriety generated by his environmental finger-wagging, too, so his grumpy-nerd negatives from the 2000 campaign would still be front and center. But also in his favor–and they may have a point here–his advisers suggest nobody really likes Hillary and she can’t win.
If he plans to run, he’ll probably get a lot more tactful advice like this:
James Carville, President Clinton’s former strategy chief, suggested last week that Mr Gore, who has piled on the pounds, could shed weight over the summer to make himself more media-friendly for a White House run.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if he lost 15lb or so,” said Mr Carville. “And I think if people thought he could get us out of the mess we’re in with Iraq, they wouldn’t care how fat he is.”
Hmmm…it sounds like Gore has almost as many friends within the party as Hillary does.
Captain Ed thinks his entry into the Democratic race spells the end of Edwards and Obama’s hopes:
A Gore entry will probably prove fatal to the ambitions of Barack Obama and John Edwards. Both have run on Gore’s turf so far, and neither will outshine him with party donors desperate to find a credible alternative to Hillary Clinton. Gore has a great deal more substance than both candidates put together and will almost immediately be the chief challenger on Hillary’s left, once he formally enters the race.
I’m not so sure; Edwards at least projects empathy and Obama for all his wacky politics seems like a likeable guy you’d like to have a beer with. Gore’s more like an old bachelor high-school French teacher, and no one’s going to vote for him out of pity.
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Who cares what’s in his gut–what’s in his HEAD?
lizzee on April 22, 2007 at 7:02 PM
At least he makes an easy target…
Canadian Imperialist Running Dog on April 22, 2007 at 7:03 PM
He really looks a lot like Mussolini
lizzee on April 22, 2007 at 7:08 PM
C.I.R.D., I hate to be a fussbudget, but think about how that statement looks. We all know you meant an easy target for ridicule…but someone could willfully misinterpret that and cause you some embarrassment.
Like a Secret Service visit. Capice?
see-dubya on April 22, 2007 at 7:17 PM
Run Al Run!
And if those Democrats are too blind to give you the nomination that you deserve, run as a Green or an Independent.
Help us Obi Al Gorenobi; You’re Earth’s only hope.
LegendHasIt on April 22, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Did the Galcier-lady know this when she made that “under the carpet” comment at the Sharpton-ring-kissing-event?
Does Mr. Gore know how dangerous glaciers are?
Entelechy on April 22, 2007 at 7:32 PM
Nothing would be better then to get Al sound bites all over the airwaves for a year! He will put a hole in the Dem boat that will be pretty damn hard to plug. Run Al! Run!
Limerick on April 22, 2007 at 7:39 PM
I tend to think that Gore would pull more support from Hillary than from Obama.
Edwards was finished before he started.
Pablo on April 22, 2007 at 7:47 PM
Are you kidding? How would they find time? Just about every medium from internet to tv and movies has somebody wanting the President dead. Gore hasn’t even announced yet and they’d jump on a dodgy statement like that? Our tax dollars at work, I guess. Nice screen capture by the way. Looks like he just recieved an inconvenient insertion of his Oscar award.
austinnelly on April 22, 2007 at 8:02 PM
>Obama for all his wacky politics seems like a likeable guy you’d like to have a beer with.
Really? The poorly done plastic smile kind of ruins it for me from the beginning. Just looking at him makes me want to smack him on the side of the head.
Doghouse on April 22, 2007 at 8:17 PM
Gore-y.
Kokonut on April 22, 2007 at 8:35 PM
The Tennessee showdown.
Fred! vs. the Goracle.
Did he mend enough fences in his home state after 2000?
The candidacy of Gore can only hurt his global warming crusade if he becomes the very public face of the movement.
Run Al! Run!
Valiant on April 22, 2007 at 8:47 PM
Do you think ALGORE could stand loosing a second time?
What about his “Global Whatever” religion? Separation of Church and what…..?
PinkyBigglesworth on April 22, 2007 at 9:01 PM
I do hope Albore runs! He’s an idiot who will only make the Republican opponent more viable. Albore is insane! The only reason he got the votes he did in 2000 was because he had been the vp for clinton. This is usually the case.
Neocon Peg on April 22, 2007 at 9:29 PM
He is the High Priest of the Religion of Global Warming. I think it has gone to his head. Run Al Run!
Neocon Peg on April 22, 2007 at 9:32 PM
would that not require him to be elected president first?
but yes, I did mean for ridicule, mocking, and perhaps even a good old tar and feathering…
Canadian Imperialist Running Dog on April 22, 2007 at 9:43 PM
All we would need is commercials with audio from Gore’s speech to MoveOn.org after he lost in 2000. He went sooooo off the deep end that day.
He was screaming so loud at the podium that his voice cracked several times. It’s anti-Gore gold.
unamused on April 22, 2007 at 9:45 PM
C.I.R.D — how about just a good old-fashioned blanket party?
unamused on April 22, 2007 at 9:47 PM
Gore who did more harm to this country than any one person with his crap in Florida 2000. He would be easy pickin’s with all his rants and blowups. But he thinks he is God so he will probably run.
Wade on April 22, 2007 at 10:18 PM
Wade, AlBore is the High Priest of the newest religion, Global warming. He thinks he is the pure and holy priest of that religion. And believe me, it is a religion to these people.
Neocon Peg on April 22, 2007 at 10:50 PM
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.
Labamigo on April 22, 2007 at 11:51 PM
When ALGORE is out of “Carbon Credits”, and he farts, what punishment fits the crime?
PinkyBigglesworth on April 22, 2007 at 11:53 PM
Oh please oh please oh please oh please….
Daddy needs a new pair of Republicans in the White House!
Merovign on April 23, 2007 at 12:13 AM
Speaking of ‘global warming’ idiots.
I just had to laugh at one of the Albuquerque NM TV night-time news programs a few minutes ago. They mentioned about the fleet of icebreakers heading out to free the ships stuck in the ‘worst ocean ice fields in the last 20 years’; a moment later, about today’s snows in southern Arizona.
Then they segued (without a blink or a hint of irony) into a report of a guy who is doing his part to halt the scourge of global warming.
They showed some video of a dairy farmer who has installed a small plant to convert the uh, manure of his cows into methane which he uses to run his tractors and heat the barn. They went on to tell us how wonderful it is that this man produces ‘carbon free’ fuel. Too bad none of their producers or editors ever took basic junior high chemistry.
LegendHasIt on April 23, 2007 at 12:41 AM
I think Al Gore should loss weight by going vegan, renouncing gas producing red meats, pledge additional gun control in the wake of the VT shootings while flying about the country on his private jet spouting on about the lost war on terror. Hypocrisy has its price among the common people….we may not know the answer, are concerned about the problems but recongnize BS in our path.
jimwesty on April 23, 2007 at 11:45 AM
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