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2005-09-22 Home Front: Politix
Al Gore May Challenge Hillary Clinton in '08
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Posted by Steve 2005-09-22 15:23|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 OH MY GOD!!!! NOT AGAIN?????!!!!!!!!
Posted by ARMYGUY 2005-09-22 15:45||   2005-09-22 15:45|| Front Page Top

#2 I can hear chanting, too: POP-corn! POP-corn! POP-corn! POP-corn!
Posted by Mike 2005-09-22 15:48||   2005-09-22 15:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Rove can't possibly be that good...can he?
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2005-09-22 15:53||   2005-09-22 15:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Historically speaking, Gore's pissing into the wind. Check this list out. 12 of the 13 VP's who got to President did so right after their service as VP; Nixon was the only one to have an interregnum (my nominee for word of the day).

Here's the list in chronological order, compiled by me:

John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Martin Van Buren
John Tyler
Millard Filmore
Andrew Johnson
Chester Arthur
Teddy Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Harry Truman
LBJ
Tiger Woods Gerald Ford
George Bush Sr.
Posted by Raj 2005-09-22 16:10||   2005-09-22 16:10|| Front Page Top

#5 "Paging all Walmart shoopers. Al Gore, please call Reality."
Posted by Matt 2005-09-22 16:18||   2005-09-22 16:18|| Front Page Top

#6 "Americans love comebacks. He could come back as the new Nixon – somebody who went into the wilderness and found himself.”

Or he could come back as the new Aaron Burr - somebody who went into the wilderness and found himself possibly facing a firing squad.
Posted by Secret Master 2005-09-22 16:24||   2005-09-22 16:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Gore never knew who he was before and I doubt that he knows now.

(Gore) I want to be president!
(interviewer) Why?
(Gore) Because . . . I want to be president!
Posted by Spot">Spot  2005-09-22 16:27||   2005-09-22 16:27|| Front Page Top

#8 2007: Gore vs. Kerry in a Steel Cage Texas Death Match. Hillary shoots, skins and eats the winner.
Posted by tu3031 2005-09-22 16:43||   2005-09-22 16:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually if Gore would consider the veep spot after losing badly in the primaries the Dem ticket in '08 could be almost unbeatable. With the Hildebeeste swerving sharply to the right and a raving lunatic leftist on the bottom of the ticket they'd be very tough to defeat.
Posted by AzCat 2005-09-22 16:45||   2005-09-22 16:45|| Front Page Top

#10 "He was the first major Democrat to oppose the Iraq war.

So, essentially, Democrats are convinced their path to power lies in the defeat of the United States.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-09-22 16:56|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-09-22 16:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh, there you are, Al. I thought you were over in Germany helping them sort out their election problems.
Posted by GK 2005-09-22 17:00||   2005-09-22 17:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Robert, I assume that was for publication purposes, not a sudden insight.
Posted by Shipman 2005-09-22 17:51||   2005-09-22 17:51|| Front Page Top

#13 My surprise meter didn't twitch. I think it's going to be quite funny hearing Democrats talk about Gore as the Nixon of their party.
Posted by eLarson 2005-09-22 18:49|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2005-09-22 18:49|| Front Page Top

#14 "So, essentially, Democrats are convinced their path to power lies in the defeat of the United States." That hasn't changed sine the late 70s. I may be a Kool Aid drinker but I really think they all hope something bad happens so they can pretend to have an answer. Thank God they are not in power or we would be at the mercy of some tin-horn mad mullah.
Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge  2005-09-22 18:50||   2005-09-22 18:50|| Front Page Top

#15 2007 will be the coldest year on written record as AlGore tries to resell Kyoto. It's karma
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-09-22 19:28||   2005-09-22 19:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Everybody should remember that Al and Tipper Gore bitterly hate the Clintons. Bill Clinton was best described as a bully to Al, and spent a lot of time humiliating and even physically abusing him. And Hillary was such an utter bitch to Tipper that Tipper refused to go anywhere near her.

Al has actually been pretty cagey since he lost the election, staying in the background and slowly building up support among those-who-hate-Hillary-but-are-not-utter-moonbats.

He holds few illusions about getting elected as President. But it would be a major victory for him if he could prevent Hillary from winning, or at least if he could say he did.

Knowing that Hillary has a big machine, and is more than willing to use it to crush her enemies in the nastiest of ways, Al has to play his cards right if he wants to derail her without ending up as another victim.
Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-22 19:49||   2005-09-22 19:49|| Front Page Top

#17 Al has eco-moonbat-central locked up, Moose
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-09-22 20:32||   2005-09-22 20:32|| Front Page Top

#18 Wonder what dirt Gore has on the Clintons. Wonder whether he's got the huevos to use it.
Posted by DMFD 2005-09-22 20:36||   2005-09-22 20:36|| Front Page Top

#19 Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please.... :-D

Dang, Fred - where's the popcorn?

Extra butter for me, please.;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2005-09-22 20:40|| http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]  2005-09-22 20:40|| Front Page Top

#20 No, no, no.... No butter. I'm gonna need a lot and butter's fattening!
Posted by Bobby 2005-09-22 20:51||   2005-09-22 20:51|| Front Page Top

#21 Robert, I assume that was for publication purposes, not a sudden insight.

Certainly not a sudden insight.

I'll be 35 this October. I cannot remember a time when Democrats stood behind this country and supported it. All I remember is a party dedicated to tearing the country apart or down, or tying us up with endless treaties signed with countries that will crap on the paper before they'll hold up their end.

I believe that Martin Luther King, Jr. is the ideal we should aspire to in re race: "the content of the character, not the color of the skin". The Democrats call that racist; we're supposed to grant people special privileges based on their skin color, apparently because Democrats used to grant OTHER people special privileges based on their skin color. Nothing's changed, I guess, except who the Democrats are getting their votes from.

I hear more bigotry and outright hatred from the left than I do from the right. Yes, there are extremists on the right -- but they don't have a place of honor in the Republican party, and the Republicans have gone so far as to endorse Democrats rather than show even a speck of support for people like David Duke. On the other side, Cynthia McKinney, Robert Byrd, and hundreds of others who are openly racist are warmly welcomed.

As far as I can tell, the Democrats have turned into the "rule or ruin" party, out for power for its own sake. The future of the US never enters their minds; do they care if they poison race relations with lies, if it gains them a percentage point in the next election? Do they care about destroying the best hope for a change in the Middle East (and improved security for civilization in general), if they can garner a handle of votes in the process? Hell no.

I certainly don't agree with the Republican party or its base on everything; I don't care about abortion (except that I don't think the courts should be the legislators), and I'm opposed to chasing science out of the schools to make the overly-literal-minded happy. But at least you can still find Republicans who give a damn about the future of this country.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-09-22 22:10|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-09-22 22:10|| Front Page Top

#22 Don't call it a comeback! He's been there for years! ALgore was a political animal from birth, he knows nothing else in this world. Poor wounded animal he is, I can't see him avoiding sticking his own foot in his A*% early in any campaign. The competition's up to beating AlGore to a bloody pulp but suffering from a few gaping blindspots in her political CYA/Exploit vision. Clinton's problem is that in essence she is no more than just a lying heartless opportunist who always wanted to be the boss of everyone because she knows best and is, in her estimation, morally and intellectually superior to the hubby she loathes but all her supporters admire. She can't help but look ugly when taken in doses beyond a soundbite because the need to be everything to all takes it's toll in quick order.
Posted by MunkarKat 2005-09-22 22:27||   2005-09-22 22:27|| Front Page Top

#23 Sure hope this plump turkey announces on Thanksgiving.
Posted by Captain America 2005-09-22 22:27||   2005-09-22 22:27|| Front Page Top

#24 Well put RC.
Posted by MunkarKat 2005-09-22 22:29||   2005-09-22 22:29|| Front Page Top

#25 Gore missed his chance to be president when Clinton dodged the impeachment bullet. Looking at Raj's list of vice presidents who became president, I was struck that everyone on the list between Van Buren and Ford became president through the death of the president. For all intents and purposes, Ford became president upon the political deaths of Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon. George H. W. Bush is the only vp in modern times to become president through election. No chance, Al. You would be better off to become Governor of Tennessee.
Posted by RWV 2005-09-22 22:55||   2005-09-22 22:55|| Front Page Top

#26 RWV - Whachoo got against Tennessee? ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2005-09-22 23:02|| http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]  2005-09-22 23:02|| Front Page Top

#27 At last check they made it fairly clear they were not having him.
Posted by MunkarKat 2005-09-22 23:10||   2005-09-22 23:10|| Front Page Top

#28 â€œEverybody should remember that Al and Tipper Gore bitterly hate the Clintons...[as they should-he paid Bill’s bill]...Bill Clinton was best described as a bully to Al, and spent a lot of time humiliating... him...[don’t feel singled out now, Al-it’s Bill’s specialty.]

“Actually if Gore would consider the veep spot after losing badly in the primaries the Dem ticket in '08 could be almost unbeatable. With the Hildebeeste swerving sharply to the right and a raving lunatic leftist on the bottom of the ticket they'd be very tough to defeat.”

The cast of characters might change, but the principle could work. What is that war adage about confusing your enemy?
Posted by jules 2 2005-09-22 23:57||   2005-09-22 23:57|| Front Page Top

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