Could we stand to see another Al Gore meltdown (after he loses, again, in November?)
Liz Garrigan, blogger at the Nashville Scene’s Pith in the Wind (heh) titles her post “An Inconvenient Truth: Gore Has Jumped the Shark“. Since this was my first visit to Pithdom, I can’t tell you if Liz is pleased or no; she immediately links to Joe Klein’s Time piece on Mr. Gore’s possible re-emergence as a viable political candidate…”And so I’m rather embarrassed to admit that I’m slouching toward, well, a theory: if this race continues to slide downhill, the answer to the Democratic Party’s dilemma may turn out to be Al Gore.” Slouching, indeed.
Fast break to Ed Morrissey, writing at HotAir…”Dems open the smoke-filled room, and Gore pours out”
I don’t care much for Joe Klein, but Ed Morrissey, of the fabled Captain’s Quarters blog, is magnificent in his drop on Al Gore…
What could be less democratic than a major political party nominating a candidate for President who didn’t receive a single vote in the primaries? That would create the biggest example of smoke-filled-room politics and the biggest underhanded manipulation by a political party in decades. And ironically, it’s the Democrats who have begun laying the groundwork for exactly that scenario by pushing Al Gore as an alternative to the two candidates who have raised hundreds of millions from their followers to finish in a virtual dead heat
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Desperation leads the unwise to folly, and this is perhaps the best example yet seen. The party establishment, which created the superdelegate conundrum that now threatens to split the Democrats, want to avoid that result by pushing not one but both popular candidates out of the race. Rather than having the establishment choose between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, which threatens to have a significant portion of both camps defect to John McCain, they want to enrage everyone by offering the loser of the 2000 campaign as their hand-picked alternative.
Loser. Al Gore. 2000. There’s not a chance in hell Al Gore could win this election. We watched him stalk off after 2000, only to have to trundle back (with the help of some Harkonnen suspensors or in major need of a moo moo, take your choice) and catapult himself into ‘mending fences’ by embarking on a quest to destroy our economy with his newfound religion of “Global Warmalism”. Can he win on that? No.
More, from Ed…
Gore’s biggest issue has already been negated by John McCain, who supports American action on global-warming issues. Gore has done nothing on any other public policy over the last eight years. He played footsie with Hollywood and flew private jets all over the world to scold people over their energy use, and turned himself into a one-note activist who won’t even be able to play that single tone in an election against McCain.
A one-note activist…I wonder, how sour is that note?
If this mistake is what gets the Dems fired up, go for it. Pick a guy to run who didn’t get a single primary vote, a proven loser who was kept under Bill Clinton’s thumb for eight years (backstage to Monica’s skirts, too, eh?)
Remember the BDS, remember the hate and snark from the left for the past seven years?
With Al Gore back in the political kitchen, those chickens will come home…to roast!
(Oh, and the video that might end the candidacy of Baracky.)crossed from home.
After Gore has repeatedly said he highy doubt he will ever again be a political candidate, and that he has lost his passion for politics, it’s truly pathetic that the wingnuts are so threatened by this guys immense popularity that they spend great energy on the “war on Gore”. After this disastrous Bush presidency, worst president in modern times, he could’ve said “told you so”… he could have been bitter… but no. He’s just Al. A likeable guy with a passion to clean up the earth. Unlike the asshole who received a chorus of boos when he threw out the first pitch in tonite’s Washington Nationals opener. Watch … it’s hilarious.
There’s no “War on Gore”. It’s more like a police action. He can be contained somewhere on your satellite dish down around the late 300s somewhere.
It’s not much but it shuts him up and keeps him and his fascist bride from stopping that durned rap music from getting to their white chirrens.
Al passed 300 after consuming those 10,000 donuts right after his failure to hijack the 2000 election. He might be back down to 298, now, because of the new “Sweatin’ to the Uglies” workout video Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell put together for him.
He should trim down. He’s part of problem; given bovine emissions are more worrisome to Mother Earth than automobiles.
GDS.
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But, of course, it didn’t stop Willy from posting here, saying Gore was “the next president” and the “solution”.
Hypocrisy, they name is William.
energy independence is much more important than global warming. when the US is energy independent there will be no more oil wars and the terrorists will all be poor and unable to reach us. This will save lives AND energy. The global warming crowd can’t claim this. They can claim that they will damage and perhaps destroy capitalism which is their true aim. I for one am not done using capitalism. So I want to keep it. True believers in global warm are free to starve and freeze to death next winter. Think of all the energy you will save!