Go With Experience: Al Gore In 2008!

[Jackson4Gore]

http://www.algoresupportcenter.com/

Dear friends,

In wake of the heartbreaking loss of Senator John Kerry on November 2nd, the Al Gore Support Center is wasting no time in calling for Al Gore to run in 2008. The 2004 election was a hard fought one for which many people deserve a lot of credit. However, we must not set back and dwell on what is the past, but look toward the future and find out how we can restore our democracy by promoting the vision of Al Gore's America! Vice President Gore of course has not made any comments one way or the other about running in 2008, yet he has said he could never rule out a future run completely. That is where we come in. We must systematically build the support here for a potential run. Our goal will remain the same as it has in the past two years, promoting Al Gore’s vision and plan for America, in coordination with pushing for a 2008 run.

We feel that Al Gore is the most qualified, most dignified, and most competent person for the job. Gore has 25 years of experience from the House of Representatives to the Vice Presidency. As we all know he ran in 2000 presidential election and won the popular vote over George W. Bush, yet was denied the Presidency by the Supreme Court. Over the past four years, Vice President Gore has been the most vocal and most respected opponent of the President’s radical agenda on various issues from civil liberties to the war in Iraq. We need someone with the experience to get the job done. We need someone who is proven leader and can not only unite the United States, but the world. We are at risk every single day the Bush team and their allies are in power. We know this will be a long journey, but please join us in making a strong statement to the rest of America in saying we want our dignity back! We look foward to working with each and every one of you within the next few years.

Restore Gore 2008!

Chris D. Jackson

Join us: http://s8.invisionfree.com/Al_Gore_Support...act=Reg&CODE=00

[scrantonlib17]

1. A killer ticket

Definitely! A killer ticket would be Gore/Richardson. Gore has to want it though.

[newyawker99]

18. Hi scrantonlib17!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[scrantonlib17]

19. Thank you, nice to be here n/t

[libertad]

21. That is a great ticket!

:7

[Lone Pawn]

2. Re-run a loser?

That's what the media angle will be. Too risky, IMO. He's a great man and would be a wonderful president, but we're giving off a "desperate" angle as it is. I think we need to proclaim a democratic rebirth and run a strong new candidate rather than a failed centrist. The same strategies we've been running on since 1996 have given us a steady string of losses.

[Jackson4Gore]

3. A loser? Why worry about what the media says?

It needs to be our job to define our candidates, not let the media do it for us. Why is it that the Repubs are so good at doing this and we are not?

Gore/Bayh in 2008!

[RetroLounge]

4. Except Gore won, remember?

RL

[Teaser]

26. Not by enough.

At best, Gore will reprise his fractional win over Bush. At worst, he might do much worse than Kerry did.

We gotta run someone who'll compete strongly in the border states.

Let's not worry about this yet. If there's a natural out there, he'll show up.

[scrantonlib17]

5. Gore is not a centrist

Gore is not a centrist. He is not extremely liberal either. He has the following qualities:
- He has the connections on both spectrums of the party. (Dean and Clinton)
which could serve especially well since the cracks in the Republican party seem bigger every day.
- He has been visibly out of the so-called mold that he was put in in 2000.
- He did win the popular vote (Trite but true).

[UpsideDownFlag]

6. the problem is, he's been waaaay to fiery since 2000.

you think kerry had problems with the '87 million' sound clip? imagine the Rove machine manipulating Gore's anti-war speeches.

[Jackson4Gore]

7. Ok, but I though he was waaay too boring. Again

don't let others define our candidate.

[UpsideDownFlag]

8. im not- he has unabashedly redifined himself as a fiery, anti-war

politician. im not saying that's a bad thing, i'm just questioning how broad its appeal is.

[Jackson4Gore]

9. As long as it appeals to our ideals and principles, it is fine with me!

[scrantonlib17]

15. But..

That would be seen as having 'principles' and 'conviction' and having a 'core.

[JHBowden]

16. And Gore has been right with his speeches too.

If Iraq is a mess, Gore definitely is an option, provided he runs in the primaries and isn't sold as a draft candidate. If things are humming along in 2008, I want the person with the best ideas and vision, which may or may not be Gore.

[napi21]

10. That's a mistake. Keep the search OUT OF THE SENATE!

It's way to easy to distort a voting record of NAY Senator because there are so many votes on the same bill.

We have to go to a Governor, and preferably from the midwest or south. Why do you insist on making the hill steeper to climb? People make stuff up in campaigns, so it's best not to give them topics to put on their list that they don't even have to look for!

[Jackson4Gore]

11. We already know what to expect from the right against Gore

[napi21]

14. You don't honestl believe you've seen it all, do you?

I do believe Gore didn't get enough votes to win the majority of states is because he had very poor handlers. Especially after seeing him during his concession speech and some of the firey speechs of late, but it just doesn't feel right to me to have him run again.

[AP]

12. Gore is the father of a telecom bill which concentrated a lot of power in

the hands of a few big corporations.

I'm holding that against Gore.

[Jackson4Gore]

13. Wow, that is mature.

I don't guess 8 years of peace and prosperity are worth nothing. I also don't guess being a voice of reason the past 4 years means anything either.

[AP]

17. The shift in wealth up the ladder is the biggest threat to America right..

...now, and I think it's very mature of me to look at candidates through that lens.

Anyway, I only got this feeling about Gore after reading Stiglitz's Roaring Nineties. And I think it's mature of me to base my attitudes on primary resources like that.

Furthemore, there are many other reasons not to want Gore to run.

[Gingergal]

24. Gore would make a great choice.

(No more sitting senators should be our candidates. We need a governor or vice president. Historically, this is where our presidents come from. Gingrich wants Jeb Bush, governor.)
Read this article.
OpEd: An Al Gore-type is more like it
Thursday, 04 November 2004
From the New York Daily News

By Richard Cohen
<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/249349p-213539c.html[br />If you set out to create the perfect Democratic presidential candidate, you would probably choose someone from the South or the Border States, since John Kerry lost virtually the entire region on Tuesday, and someone who is comfortable talking the language of religion and values, since John Kerry was not, and someone whose wife is identified with conventional values and, last, someone who took a very early position against the war in Iraq, which John Kerry did not. Such a person already exists and, as luck would have it, has a name: Al Gore.

Snip...

Still, you have to notice that either as a generic type of politician or a real one, Gore is what his party needs. He has relocated himself from Washington to Nashville and he threw himself into the 2004 presidential campaign with commendable abandon. He endorsed Howard Dean, you will remember, but wound up campaigning for Kerry.

Significantly, he was against the war in Iraq. If the war continues, it will deepen as an issue and Gore, as Gary Hart once said about George McGovern, will be deemed "right from the start."

[AP]

29. Senators don't win because for the first 131 years of America they weren't

even democratically elected, and for the last 90 they've mostly been rich white guys out of touch with middle America.

With more Senators like Obama, Clinton, Wellstone and Edwards, you're going to see more Senators become president.

[Blue_Roses]

20. No. Old news.

I was disappointed when he didn't run and now I'm glad he didn't. Guess I got kind of attached to Kerry, which tells me I can get attached to someone else who decides to run. Gore is a wonderful man, but time to move on...

[scrantonlib17]

22. Toys

We don't throw away a toy simply because its arm fell off do we? We try to fix it and make it new again. We can do that with our presidential candidates.

[Q]

23. No matter what we think...

...it will be a DLC candidate again. The DLC runs the show now (behind the scenes) and they will demand a corporate friendly candidate. They will NOT accept a progressive or populist nominee.

- I think Gore could win...but too many 'democrats' have turned against him for various reasons. The time for him to run was this Nov...but he had turned against the DLC and they made sure he wasn't in the running.

[scrantonlib17]

25. Well..

Kerry was not the first choice of the DLC. However I agree that we can't have one organization running the show. They need to cooperate with the remainder of the party or else the Democrats will continue on the same path that they have been on for a while.

[LisaL]

27. I am glad Gore didn't run in 2004.

If he lost to Bush again (fraud or no fraud) it would have crushed him.

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. Do we have someone whose name rhymes with "eight"?

The sheeple like a nice catchy sounding ticket. *g*

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[liberal democrat]

30. Gore!

Gore is a great guy! I would support him again. Clinton is sooooo full of himself, thinking that if he was "used" more, Gore would have won. Well, if Bill didn't lie under oath, then Gore would have won by a landslide. We need new NEW democrats like Gore.
Say no to hillary. She has too much baggage. Kerry is a good guy too, but he does not have the experience that Gore has. Edwards is a phony. Lieberman is too conservative. Dean is much too liberal. And Gore is jussst right

[shall_not_tell]

31. This is such a good idea!

Can you imagine a Gore/Edwards ticket? They'd get like 80% of the votes!