They are starting to talk about an Al Gore candidacy....

[zebonaut]

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/17/its_time_to_draft_al_gore_if_democrats_want_to_win_its_clear_neither_hillary_nor_sanders_is_the_way/?sc=alternet

[daleanime]

1. Oh, my....

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some one is upsetting some carefully laid plans?

[irisblue]

2. he didn't fight hard enough in 2000, he will now?

[daleanime]

3. Nope.

No where near hard enough.

[Scootaloo]

7. Gore got a lot of things wrong

And none of it involved his choice of suits, sighing, or "inventing the itnernet."

1) he ran against clinton policies because clinton was "scandalous." That is he leaned to the right from an already-centrist platform, obviously for political expediency rather than any actual opposition. he came off as fake due to this.

2) Joe Lieberman? What the happy fuck was that about? In hindsight, i'm almost a little glad Gore lost 'cause I have a sneaking suspicion that he would have suffered a "mysterious mishap" in his first term and we'd have had President Lieberman. Scary thought. At any rate, butting a guy who was to the right of George bush into your campaign agaisnt George bush was a stupid move.

3) He didn't contest the results. Then he did. Then he didn't. Then he did. Yes, the fix was in, but damn I'd rather he gone down kicking the entire time rather than what he actually did.

[daleanime]

13. The one that upset me the most.....

was number 3.

[woodsprite]

14. And I didn't like that he picked Lieberman as his VP.

That being said, I voted for him and felt devastated that the SC handed it to Bush.

[GoneFishin]

4. Screw that. He won already and didn't fight to give voice to all of the disenfranchised Florida

voters, and instead moved forward to certify the SCOTUS selection of King George.

If the tables had been turned the Republicans would have fought tooth and nail until every bullshit excuse was used to discredit the opposition. Hell, they still don't acknowledge that Barack Obama is a legitimate President.

[99th_Monkey]

5. What would Democrats gain by Gore entering the race?

In other words, what issue positions are not being addressed that Gore could do better?

Personally I think that would spell huge problems for Hillary, much more than Sanders.
While I like Gore, esp. his unyielding work on climate change, I think he's mostly viewed
in a similar way that Hillary is, i.e. as a 3rd Way establishment Democrat.

[GoneFishin]

8. He absolutely is on Team Status Quo with Hillary. Biden and Gore entering the primary both

help Hillary because they both have name recognition and will draw from both the Bernie pool and the Hillary pool. But both Biden and Gore are establishment figures who would throw their support behind Hillary when they invariably dropped out.

The right wing of the party is flailing in the dark trying to break Bernie's momentum.

[99th_Monkey]

15. +100

I can't say it better.

[HooptieWagon]

9. Gore was also a founding member of DLC.

Other than the environment, I don't know what his current positions are.
I agree with post above, that Gore doesn't add anything to the field not already covered. He had his chance, and won, but didn't fight hard enough to hang on to the prize.

[Lil Missy]

6. The stupid is strong in that article. n/t

[tularetom]

10. Whoever "they" are, they'd better forget it

The guy who selected Joe Loserman as his running mate and bailed on a recount he was winning isn't going to be elected dog catcher.

[SheilaT]

11. Who in the world is this "they"?

Drafting a non candidate will never work. I respect Al Gore, but I suspect he would, if necessary, repeat William Tecumseh Sherman's promise: "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."

[Trajan]

12. Who is talking ?

Please ... don't answer ...

They is nobody who matters ... Al Gore isn't going to put his hat out there again unless something dreadful happened and the party NEEDED someone of Al's stature ... Otherwise - count Al out ..

[monmouth4]

16. I'm having trouble staying awake now......NOPE!....n/t

[joanbarnes]

17. We already elected him once.

[Uncle Joe]

18. I do believe in all sincerity that Al Gore has the capability to be among

our greatest Presidents, perhaps the greatest and that's no hyperbole.

Having said that, I'm not sure that he wants to run.

Thanks for the thread, zebonaut.

[markpkessinger]

19. Somebody please tell me . . .

. . . the site this article appears on is actually newyorker.com, and that this is really an Andy Borowitz column!