Gore Supporters’ Movement Lacks a Candidate

NY Times ^ | 11 October 2007 | By JIM RUTENBERG

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With talk of a Nobel Peace Prize in the air and election deadlines looming, supporters of Al Gore have been raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for petition drives and advertising campaigns in a last-ditch effort to draft him into the Democratic presidential primaries.

Draft Gore, a national group that for several years has been trying to pull Mr. Gore into a presidential race, ran a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Wednesday, as well as commercials on liberal radio talk shows, saying he had an obligation to seek the presidency again and address from the White House a variety of moral issues facing the country.

The group said it had collected small donations over the Internet to pay for the ads. The Times advertisement alone cost roughly $65,000, a standard rate for ads not slotted to run on a particular day, a spokeswoman for the newspaper said.

Other groups, from New York to Iowa to California, are running drives to put Mr. Gore on primary ballots or make him an option in caucus rooms.

Yet, as of now, the movement is without a candidate.

Mr. Gore’s representatives say he has no plans

Mr. Gore declined an interview request Wednesday, but his representatives stopped short of declaring that he absolutely would not run.

Organizers from several of the groups seeking a Gore campaign say they take the lack of a definitive no as a green light to keep working, especially as ballot registration deadlines loom.

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Before the 2004 election, Al Gore was raising money and indicating in every way he would be a candidate. Then he visited China for reasons never altogether explained. Shortly after that he withdrew his candidacy.

At least that is how I remember it. If my memory is correc, tt was and is a puzzle wrapped in an enigma.

In he meantime, just the talk of a Gore candidacy must augur some hesitation and opposition to Hillary. She won't like this!

[Leroy S. Mort]

We should be so lucky.

[norwaypinesavage]

"The Times advertisement alone cost roughly $65,000, a standard rate"

Gosh, the NYT is publishing it's "standard" rates. I wonder what prompted this? It couldn't be that the Old Gray Whore is stinging a little from the Move On ad debacle, could it?

[traditional1]

A phony candidate with a phony "Nobel Prize" with phony "American" supporters?

A match made in Heaven....

/sarc

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“oGre Supporters’ Movement Lacks a Candidate”

Bunch of jocks!

[doug from upland]

I just spoke with a rep of Al’s at the Carthage Group. He has no plans to run. But, they guy wants to see our film. :)

[CaliGirlGodHelpMe]

There is no chance that Gore will run for president. Unless I am way, way wrong, the Clintons have enough on him to control him for the rest of his life. It would be very unlike them to have overlooked this contingency.

BUT, that certainly isn’t going to stop him from collecting MORE AND MORE MONEY from his half-wit, naive, foolish liberal supporters, is it? All he has to do is dangle the possibility of running in front of them and subtly imply, “if only I had enough money to run...”