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.
Doesn't Hillary Clinton smoke too?
I shudder at the thought of both.
Where Hillary has a chance to make Karl Marx and Lenin appear moderate, Al Gore brings about the possibility of making Jimmy Carter look half-competent.
I was lurking over at DU off an on during the 2004 election cycle and many of them threatened to renounce their registered status as Democrats because some "Frankenstein-looking goofball" was "their guy". Some of those dopeheads were diehard Kucinich supporters and leftwinged clowns who supported Edwards. (they were the more ticked off of the bunch because Edwards got tapped as the VP nominee).
I'd say the Democrat party is disenchanted in it's majority status.
Algore would have to disclose his immense wealth and how in 8 years of post government employment he has become one of America's wealthist individuals.
His net worth (estimated) is over $300,000,000.00.
Chiefly Google, but he has millions in other stocks as well and in on the Board of Directors of several companies.
So, I doubt he would run again. He might "feel better" to be Kingmaker. Dems like to "feel better".
I'm guessing you don't know Mayor Villaraigosa is considered something of a DINO by the Kos Kidz. Don't ask me why. I think he might've said something vaguely moderate once upon a time. Whatever the reason, his opinion is hardly representative of DKos.
That he is. He's to the left of Joe Lieberman on the war.
you left out for Nixon, resigned from office.
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