What Does the Goreacle's Endorsement Mean?

The Washington Post ^ | 06/17/08 | Chris Cillizza

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Former Vice President Al Gore's decision to endorse Sen. Barack Obama drew wall-to-wall coverage across the media spectrum.

But, will it carry significant weight with voters?

As always, we return the to handy dandy Fix Endorsement Hierarchy for the answers.

There's little question that Gore, given his current role as a global prophet on climate change and his past role as the man who "used to be the next president of the United States," ranks as a "symbolic endorser" -- the most important of all in the Fix hierarchy.

"Take it from me, elections matter," Gore said last night in Detroit, a not so subtle reference to the 2000 presidential election, which has become a touchstone within the Democratic Party.

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"Take it from me, elections matter." Having spent almost two years researching what could have happened if the 2000 election had gone the other way for my new book, A Time Like This, that's the one algorethm with which I agree.

-How would a president whose top priority was international cooperation on the myth of Global Warming have reacted to the 9/11 attacks?

-What would the effects of a sudden conversion to a "green economy" have been?

-How would the media have treated a Democrat president during this period?

The answers to these and other policy questions don't support Gore's contention that the country would have been better off with a Democrat in the White House these past eight years.

-Wm Tate, A Time Like This: 2001-2008

[SERKIT]

What does Gore's endorsement mean?

a) Not much

b) Demonstrated he had no b*lls to do it earlier while Hillary was still in the race

c) That he is still a Greenhouse Gasbag

d) All of the above

[mirkwood]

What does al gore bring..hahahah

[Redbob]

"What Does the Goreacle's Endorsement Mean?"

Just ask John Kerry!
LOL!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Hopefully the KISS OF DEATH.

[Don Corleone]

"Take it from me, elections matter."

Had to be one of the dumbest speeches in a long line of dumb mutterings from this overweight never was.

[mortal19440]

And Howard Dean.

[Sadie5]

It don’t mean a thing-gore ain’t got that swing. It might have meant something earlier on but it is nothing that is going to help the golden boy.