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The Stars Align: Al Gore, Democrat Nominee
MND ^ | January 27, 2007 | Doug Powers

Posted on 01/27/2007 8:26:51 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy

At this moment, there are three declared candidates who are considered “front-runners” for the Democrats’ nomination: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards. That rattling sound you hear are DNC nerves.

It isn’t looking good for Hillary. Though polls show her as the early favorite, Hillary is sitting on so many fences that eventually she’ll succumb to splinter-shock. Her past as a radical leftist is bound to be dug up time and time again and used in comparison to her more recent “softer” statements, and Hillary will be forced to do more dancing than Ginger Rogers standing on a downed power line. A tamer and more moderate (read: fake) Hillary Clinton is also bound to anger the Democrat base, and Hollywood is already beginning to shift their support away from Queen Cartpetbagger. Why? Hillary’s support of the war in Iraq and the softening of her position on abortion are only two reasons.

Hillary may well founder, which leaves us with the man in the on-deck circle, Barack Obama. With only two years’ national experience, Obama will ultimately be chewed up and spit out like a dog pill poorly hidden in a hunk of Fido’s cheese. Some say Obama smoking cigarettes and having the middle name “Hussein” will be a big deal, but these two facts will offset each other. How so? Engaging in the promotion of America’s biggest killer will give chills to liberals, but this will be balanced out by sharing a name with an innocent victim of George W. Bush who didn’t have weapons of mass destruction.

As for announced candidate number three, when voters hear “John Edwards,” he’ll be closely associated with John Kerry, and most Democrat primary voters will rightly think “been there, done that.” Clearing forest like a lumber company to build a home ( http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/2007/01/26/john-im-a-lumberjack-and-im-okay-edwards/ ) isn’t bound to go over well with the tree-huggers, either. Listening to one of the reasons that health care is so expensive complaining about the cost of health care may not add up for some of the more astute Democrat voters.

And then there’s the undeclared Al Gore, who remains a hero to the Democrat base. After all, Gore’s the only high-profile Democrat with experience at winning a presidential election, isn’t he? Gore’s winning of the overall popular vote but yet losing the White House continues to chap Dem behinds, and many would love to give Al another shot.

Couple that with the fact that Al may win an Academy Award this year, and Gore looks like the man to beat in ‘08. Gore’s global warming film “An inconvenient truth” got two Oscar nominations. In late February, the Gore-loving, global warming fearing Hollywood glitterati will jump in their three-mile-per-gallon limos and head for the red carpet, some after burning tens of thousands of gallons of jet fuel on their private planes, to back Gore in his quest to save the planet and root for the film to emerge victorious, not to mention urge him to run for president.

It’s been a long road back for Gore since his 2000 heart-break. Ever since, though, Gore’s been rebuilding himself via his environmental work. There’s are good reasons Gore often says that the most serious threat to the world isn’t terrorism, but rather global warming: Gore hasn’t made an Oscar nominated movie or written a book about terrorism.

There’s one way to tell if global warming is actually a greater threat than terrorism. If we start seeing Al Qaeda switching from car bombs and hijackings to aerosol hairspray and leaving an SUV running instead of blowing it up, then we’ll know.

The Democrat nomination is Al Gore’s for the taking. Sure, there will be questions, such as why global warming wasn’t such a big deal for the eight years Gore was actually in a position to do something about it, but this is but a minor point considering that the Democrats are nervous at having three “firsts” on their candidate list: A woman, a black man, and an ambulance chaser. If they ever all walk into a bar, there’s a hell of a joke there.

Al Gore offers the Democrats a way out. Gore is tested, high profile, loved by Hollywood, and he’s the only candidate who has experience winning a presidential election — or so they’ll tell us. He’s the “safest” bet at this point, and who else can be billed as most capable of actually saving the planet? I predict not only do the Democrat suits convince Gore to run, but that they even convince him to wear a cape on the campaign trail.

The stars are aligned perfectly for Al Gore to get the nomination.


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To: Alberta's Child

Howard Dean raised $60 million on the Internet so I doubt Gore would have much problem with that, and that's not counting all the Silicon Valley fundraisers that he has ties with via his Apple and Google positions or his Hollywood support or what he would retain from his 2000 network.


41 posted on 01/27/2007 9:55:16 PM PST by AntiGuv ("..I do things for political expediency.." - Sen. John McCain on FOX News)
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To: Egon

Entertaining article.


42 posted on 01/27/2007 10:04:16 PM PST by RhoTheta
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

bttt


43 posted on 01/27/2007 10:26:22 PM PST by Christian4Bush (Too bad these leftist advocates for abortion didn't practice what they preach on themselves.)
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To: volunbeer
You're right. Sen. Albert Gore Sr. was turned out of office by Tennesseans because he shifted to the left. This lesson was not lost on junior who was able to play the moderate most of his political life. After 2000 his true colors came out.

One explanation for Gore losing Tennessee in 2000 was that he took the state for granted and did not spend much time or money campaigning here. I think the greater factor was a political shift of the electorate that began in the '60's and was almost complete by 2000. This was the transition of conservative "Dixiecrat" Democrats into Republicans. This happened at a slower pace here than in other southern states. I live 12 miles from a TVA dam FDR built in the 1930's and that project, and other New Deal programs, made voters beholden for decades.
44 posted on 01/27/2007 10:37:55 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: goodnesswins

And when he loses miserably; it will surely be due to election fraud...

Do I really need a SARC Alert?


45 posted on 01/27/2007 10:40:09 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: gonewt
If we're stuck with a Democrat in 2008, better Gore than Hillary.

True. He's too dumb to cause too much damage. Besides, we'll have more fun beating him up.

46 posted on 01/27/2007 11:54:08 PM PST by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: AntiGuv
What he needs is liberal moonbat Dem primary voters...


47 posted on 01/27/2007 11:57:13 PM PST by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Alberta's Child
Liberal moonbat Dem primary voters couldn't even propel Howard Dean to victory over a Frankenstein-looking goofball in 2004.


48 posted on 01/27/2007 11:59:41 PM PST by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

It sure would be fun to watch Gore and Hillary duke it out, likely to be one of the nastiest nomination battles ever.


49 posted on 01/28/2007 12:00:13 AM PST by flying Elvis ("In...War, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst" Clausewitz.)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

We can hope :-)


50 posted on 01/28/2007 12:00:50 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

A simple question I have not seen asked of Mr Gore:


If global warming is such a big deal what did you do about it during your 8 years as VP?


51 posted on 01/28/2007 12:03:36 AM PST by woofie (Its Patriotic to be Hateful,Nasty,Stupid and Destroy the Country as long as you are a Democrat)
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To: bnelson44

Don't count him out. Hillary is all over the place; Al has been consistent in his views, and he didn't have to vote on the Iraq war. He could be well positioned to make a Nixonian "Comeback".


52 posted on 01/28/2007 12:16:32 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (I'm pretty sure the phrase life is too short doesn't exist in Islam-Dennis Miller)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
Gore is promoting himself through the movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." He is giving three day training sessions on his power point program on Global Warming. Trainees then go into their communities and promote the showing of the movie in local libraries and school districts. The movie is creating a money stream to his political campaign. Michael Moore set the template for the use of propaganda films to generate political influence and money. The Global Warming issue is a Trojan Horse for commie-socialist politics.
53 posted on 01/28/2007 12:16:44 AM PST by jonrick46
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To: jonrick46; All
Well, we all know how serial he is!
54 posted on 01/28/2007 12:25:03 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (I'm pretty sure the phrase life is too short doesn't exist in Islam-Dennis Miller)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
These exerpts appeared in the Tacoma News Tribune about Al Gore's training program:

The mother of a district high school student will show the film Sunday night. And at the end of the month, a volunteer trained by Gore’s organization, The Climate Project, will present the global warming slide show that Gore uses in the film.

Eickmeyer, who lives in Chimacum near Port Townsend, had just returned from three days of training on how to present Gore’s slide show.

He linked up with Federal Way resident Chris Carrel, who arranged to have Eickmeyer present his slide show at City Hall on Jan. 29.

55 posted on 01/28/2007 12:53:59 AM PST by jonrick46
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To: volunbeer

Edwards is a "jackpot justice," slip 'n fall lawyer who made his fortune suing people. I think one of his bigger jackpots was a case where a little girl got stuck on a pool drain. Anyways, he then bought a Senate seat but coughed it up when he saw the writing on the wall that he was dead meat in his next election.

Now Edwards wants to be President and lead the Democrat Party's efforts to turn America into a Euro-style secular-socialist welfare state. You know - - make America as great as France. The end.


56 posted on 01/28/2007 1:14:50 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

The same sniveling group of leftists.


57 posted on 01/28/2007 2:17:24 AM PST by driftless2
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To: goodnesswins

he'll definitely get one. That was determined as soon as he made the decision to make a doc about global warming. The same as anyone making a flick with a homosexual theme has a strong edge over anything else. It's not for nothing that most of the docs on my cable tv on-demand menu have homosexual or weird sex themes.


58 posted on 01/28/2007 2:21:20 AM PST by driftless2
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

59 posted on 01/28/2007 2:49:27 AM PST by wolficatZ ("..a creature from the prehistoric past. The terrible, fearsome, Croco-Stimpy! ")
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To: AntiGuv

I bet you're right.


60 posted on 01/28/2007 2:49:38 AM PST by Actually_in_Tokyo (ahead of the game)
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