Good news: Saver of planet to save Democratic Party, possibly American democracy itself
posted at 5:30 pm on February 16, 2008 by Allahpundit
Solomonic broker between the Glacier and Messiah — or consensus second-ballot nominee himself? He’s the worst of both worlds: As left-wing as Obama but without the likeability, as establishment as Hillary but without the organization. Or is it the best of both worlds: As messianic as Obama and as experienced as Hillary? Whatevs. “Gore 2008: Another white man after all.”
Exit question: Tougher to beat than Hill or Barry O? McCain’s maverickiness on global warming would neutralize the Goracle on his signature issue so he’d run mainly on his personal credentials, likely with Obama as VP to leverage his personnel and fundraising. Supplementary exit question: Why would Obama go for it?
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Dare to Dream!
JayHaw Phrenzie on February 16, 2008 at 5:32 PM
IMO
1. Easier to beat than Hillary or Obama
2. Obama would never go for it. I think he got in thinking it would preposition him for 2012 more than anything else. I think he is truly surprised at how popular he is this cycle.
Hillary and Obama both figure they have a chance in 2012 if the other gets the nom and the GOP wins. 76 year old McCain and who knows what happens on his watch in four years?
Bradky on February 16, 2008 at 5:36 PM
will the clown ever just GO AWAY!
The sad sacks that are running now are bad enough.
jdsmith0021 on February 16, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Oh please! I’d love to see the ultimate fall of the Democrat Party! Bring on the whale himself…….
MNDavenotPC on February 16, 2008 at 5:38 PM
I just can’t quite get my head around a GorObamaRama ticket.
They both think they’re the Messiah. Gore’s the Saviour of Mother Gaia and Barry’s the Saviour of Mankind.
Surely there’d be some kind of fatuousness overload somewhere about October and the whole thing would collapse of its own idiotic weight.
Right?
Huh?
Please?
Typhoon on February 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM
Umm, yeah, because he’s…freakin’ insane. It’s just gotta be easier to beat, you know, a crazy guy. It’s just gotta be.
Rational Thought on February 16, 2008 at 5:42 PM
I don’t think he will take the pay cut.
jukin on February 16, 2008 at 5:44 PM
ManBearPig
Chakra Hammer on February 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM
So a presidential candidate loses a close, hotly-contested election, and then thinks he can come back and win after being out of high office for 8 years?
But enough about Richard Nixon.
Bigfoot on February 16, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Let him run, then the MSM can expose him as the charlatan he is.
Yeah, right. Who am I kidding?
JoeAvg on February 16, 2008 at 5:50 PM
In that NY Times peice I love the Moveon.org chairman on video defending the exclusion of Florida and Michigan’s delegates and getting asked about Moveon’s backing of Barak Obama.
William Amos on February 16, 2008 at 5:52 PM
BTW I LOVE the painting in that Moveon.org video behind their chairman. I swear its title should be “The Blind leading the Blind”
William Amos on February 16, 2008 at 5:54 PM
“Supplementary exit question: Why would Obama go for it?”
Gore’s weight problem?
Dusty on February 16, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Just looked up the word “narcissism” and the Goracle’s picture came up.
Entelechy on February 16, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Rush says Goracle will never run for Prez again, as it would expose him to debate on his global warming theology. I think Rush is probably right.
petefrt on February 16, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Times are tough when Obe One Gorobi is called into action.
David in ATL on February 16, 2008 at 6:03 PM
Al Gore
Highest educational degree: high school
TWICE a college drop out!
Preacher with no leg to stand on.
maverick muse on February 16, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Lord God Al is a global Deity he has no use for anything so mundane as POTUS.
And he hates the Clintons, the perfect scenario would be for Hill to gain the nomination only to have the finger of God flick the Presidency away like a woolly booger.
Speakup on February 16, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Gore would never do it. All his activities involving the global warming scam, including his carbon credit company would be thrust into the light. If there are some unfortunate people who don’t know what a crook this bloated whale is, they’ll find out.
darwin on February 16, 2008 at 6:14 PM
Who would it expose him to?
The MSM? They agree with him.
The “intelligentsia”? Ditto.
The rest of us? He, and the MSM, and the “enlightened elite’”, have been studiously ignoring the rest of humanity for the last half-century, at least. As far as they’re concerned, we’re too stupid to wipe our own backsides after using the head, much less ask them questions. Or tell them what to do.
From the POV of “The People Who Matter”, The Prophet Obama and AlGore From The Planet Eco are a match made in Heaven.
Or at least, their definition of Heaven. Which I believe existed somewhere around the beginning of the Paleolithic, and ended abruptly when some never-to-be-sufficiently-damned ape descendant noticed that fire could be used to improve the flavor, safety, and nutritive value of (ugh) meat.
/BTW, That “ugh” is their opinion, not mine, as I just had a very tasty junior bacon cheeseburger from Wendy’s for dinner (just got back from an IPMS meet, and didn’t feel like cooking)
cheers
eon
eon on February 16, 2008 at 6:15 PM
We dodged this idiot once. Why would me even consider him again? Climate change is due to solar activity. Since solar activity is low a small “ice age” is the next thing to worry about. Why do people with no scientific credentials keep buying into this BS (and that includes McCain).
duff65 on February 16, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Good lord . . . will that bag of bloat ever go away?
rplat on February 16, 2008 at 6:24 PM
This is mere fantasy. Hillar WILL be the nominee whether the democrat voters want her or not.
SouthernGent on February 16, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Heh.
davidk on February 16, 2008 at 6:25 PM
Something to consider. Gore can be said to have McCain beat all hollow when it comes to the type of maverickiness that the MSM just eats up with a spoon.
“Yeah, yeah, so McCain occasionally insults members of his own party. That’s nothing compared to the way I continue to cr*p all over the character, motives and intelligence of the citizens of my own country ON A WORLD STAGE! Take that McCain! Piker.”
Deety on February 16, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Between Hillary, Barack, and Al, they should settle it the civilized way. Total up their Academy Award nominations, Grammy nominations, and Nobel Peace Prizes, and whoever has the most gets to lose to McCain.
indythinker on February 16, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Hmm. Now if we could just talk Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan into entering the race; Dig up Pat Paulson and Harold Stassen and get them to declare, we could turn this election into a bigger comedy of BAD jokes on the voters than it already is.
LegendHasIt on February 16, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Excelsior!
doubleplusundead on February 16, 2008 at 6:31 PM
Can’t we just run zombie Reagan against zombie FDR and settle this once and for all?
Deety on February 16, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Harold Ickes!!!
Da Rev’rund Al Sharpton!!
The GORACLE Himself !!!
This Circus just gets better each and every day !!!
Ya know what, as patriotic Americans, as people who believe wholeheartedly in the sacred process of electoral democracy, each and every one of us needs to get up each morning and ask ourselves;
What can I do to help screw up the Democrats’ nomination process today???
Always Right on February 16, 2008 at 6:36 PM
I think that the Hillary campaign was so worried about the Glaciers Meltdown they want the global warming guru to start the deep freeze campaign.
William Amos on February 16, 2008 at 6:38 PM
The scenario seems as far fetched as Global warming itself. We had snow falling in Tucson yesterday! Best ski season in a decade on Mt. Lemmon. Yep. Getting pretty warm.
Ordinary1 on February 16, 2008 at 6:38 PM
So Newsweek (and the NYT) is/are not quite accepting of the inevitability of the Messiah?
What a conundrum: to be faced with the premature actualization of your socialist/fascist dreams (in Obama), but knowing that your corporate/personal fortune/portfolio might suffer if the “dream” becomes reality.
Poor conflicted things.
Nichevo on February 16, 2008 at 6:41 PM
yawn.
it’s obama.
and mccain slaughters him.
reliapundit on February 16, 2008 at 6:51 PM
When Richardson is the only Dem candidate and Thompson and Mitt the only republicans who were reasonable what do you expect out of what is left. Two Dems who are a bit to the left of Lenin and a Republican who has bought into Gores global warming BS. All I can say is “god help us”.
duff65 on February 16, 2008 at 6:56 PM
Reality is that Hillary is going to be the nominee whether the Bloated Toad or the Gingerbread Messiah like it or not. Delegates mean nothing to the the Clintons. They own the dims. Time will show all of this is a charade.
volsense on February 16, 2008 at 6:57 PM
“President? Do you have any idea how much power I’d have to give up to be President?”
ZK on February 16, 2008 at 6:59 PM
McCain is many things, but he is not particularly intelligent. Think Al Gore.
JiangxiDad on February 16, 2008 at 7:05 PM
Even John Kerry is brighter than Algore.
Algore is one of those guys who thinks he was born to save the rest of us, by telling us how to act. That’s why he went to divinity school in the first place, to put religion in the service of his personal ambition.
Rev. Algore, Preacher
Church of Global Warming
petefrt on February 16, 2008 at 7:17 PM
Mayhem in Denver. Reality TV at it’s worst.
Zorro on February 16, 2008 at 7:19 PM
Yeah, like I said, it’s highly unlikely, but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be highly entertaining! Popping corn just in case.
Ordinary1 on February 16, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Now, that’s just not cricket!!
OldEnglish on February 16, 2008 at 7:35 PM
Global Warming. Hah…hah..hahahahahahahahahaha!
Montana on February 16, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Well if it ain’t ol’ Pastor Al Gore of the First Church of Global Warming….
DfDeportation on February 16, 2008 at 8:39 PM
Co-Presidents?
BDavis on February 16, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Besides his massive girth, Gore has one enormous ego. Go away! Shoo! You had your chance. You are now old news.
Blake on February 16, 2008 at 8:53 PM
Neither Hill nor Obama would go for it. Plus, the convention ain’t big enough for two false prophets, I mean, messiahs, is it?
CP on February 16, 2008 at 9:06 PM
Why would Obama go for it? Well, Gore is like catnip for Democrats. They love him. They think GWB stole the election from him in 2000. Anywho, I dislike him probably more than I dislike Hillary. And that. is. a lot.
“Gore 2008: Another white man after all.”
lmaooo
mattyj86 on February 16, 2008 at 10:22 PM
If anyone wants to watch it..
Manbearpig – 1006 – South Park Zone
Chakra Hammer on February 16, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Al seems to be sequestering a lot of extra carbon on his a$$ these days.
BL@KBIRD on February 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM
I find it totally mind blowing that the Democrats actually believe Gore is the best they have to offer. This fat a$$ is clueless …… ah, wait a minute, he is raking in loads of cash on the climate warming scam, so maybe he’s not all that dumb, after all. Beside that ruse, what are his accomplishments other than being picked as a running mate by another phoney a-hole.
Lastly, you’d think a guy with all his money and public presence, would have enough sense to get those snaggly teeth of his fixed. Yuk!
gunter on February 17, 2008 at 12:49 AM
If Obama walks into the convention leading and walks out there with anything but the nomination, say goodbye to the Democratic party. It will fracture and break apart 5 minutes later. The perfect storm will hit with such ferocity it may spill over into actual violence in the streets. There is no way Obama’s supporters will accept anything less. There is no way the African-American community as a whole will accept anything less, even if they supported Hillary originally.
There is no way the Democratic party can confirm the worst fears/assumptions of the African American community regarding the white power structure and survive. If Obama were up against a white man, they probably wouldn’t even try. But, because it’s a woman, the Party’s other major special interest, they may be stupid enough to try.
TheBigOldDog on February 17, 2008 at 6:57 AM
He’s easier to beat than both. He didn’t carry his home state in ’00 – why would he carry anything more then the tree-hugging, Prius-driving, Marine-hating clowns in Northern California?
Leonidas Hoplite on February 17, 2008 at 9:19 AM
Goreble warning!
saved on February 17, 2008 at 9:38 AM
Keep an eye on the Buddhist temples…when Al starts dropping by, you’ll know he’s in the race.
And by the way, petefrt, Rash Limbaugh is wrong on this. Gore has never bothered to debate anyone on the “global warming” issue, and has always gotten a free pass. So why would anyone think he’d need to defend his views in an election?
MrScribbler on February 17, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Just read that Greenland’s ice sheets are expanding.
Heh.
Oh ya, we’ll all drown, Algore, in your Gorebal Warming BS.
This man is truly an idiot.
Montana on February 17, 2008 at 12:36 PM
I’m with Camille Paglia on this one – Gore as a candidate means assured Republican victory. He must really hate Hillary if he’s thinking about throwing in his hat at this point: Obama’s not going to have the baggage associated with Gore, while Hillary and Gore shared a job for eight years.
I’m still with the “Write in Alan Keyes!” camp.
emailnuevo on February 17, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Go Alan! The choice of real conservatives.
Pax americana on February 17, 2008 at 3:31 PM
If nothing else, Gore in the race will add someone new/old to talk about until November. Surprise Dream Ticket: Gore/Franken.
My name is Doug, and I’m an ‘Al-aholic’.
Chorus: Hello, Doug!
I can’t stop voting for Al.
Clap clap clap clap clap.
Doug on February 17, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Qualified?????
labrat on February 17, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Wonder where Al keeps his newly won Oscar and Nobel Peace prize trophies? I think I know where they should be kept..
Travis1 on February 17, 2008 at 6:02 PM