From last night's "Scarborough Country." I didn't post this last night because I couldn't believe my ears. I decided to wait for the transcript.:patriot:
SCARBOROUGH: I‘m joined now by “HARDBALL‘s” Chris Matthews.
Chris, I see that the Draft Hillary movement in starting in Nashville, Tennessee, which, also, of course, happens to be in Al Gore‘s backyard. Do you think there may be a little bit of back and forth between these two people that were rivals at the beginning of the Clinton administration?
CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC HOST: Well, I think it‘s very active.
I think Al Gore resents Hillary Clinton‘s ascension, if you will, because—let‘s face it—it wasn‘t Al Gore who got in trouble with Monica Lewinsky, it was Bill Clinton. And he gets stuck with all the responsibility for all of that goo, politically, back in 2000 when he loss that heart-breaker. I‘m sure he blames the whole thing on Clinton and the mess he put the country in with regard to the embarrassment in the Oval Office. And I‘m sure he‘s got a grudge against Hillary Clinton, who just whizzed by it by saying “vast right-wing conspiracy,” blaming it on the political enemies of the president, then getting elected senator from New York.
SCARBOROUGH: Isn‘t it fascinating that Al Gore was seen as this boring, technocrat in 2000 that didn‘t have heart or soul, and Hillary Clinton was the hero of the left? But if you talk to party activists, if you talk to, you know, the Hollywood-types and big money people, it seems like Al Gore is getting in fairly well with the left, while Hillary Clinton is now seen as the sellout centrist.
MATTHEWS: Well, there‘s only one issue to a lot of people: Four out of five Democrats think the war in Iraq was wrong, it was a mistake, it was worse than a blunder, because it was carried out for ideological reasons. They don‘t like this war. Hillary Clinton supports the war to this day. Al Gore—it took awhile, but he finally came out against the war, dramatically. I think that‘s the issue. That‘s the issue, the war, which defines Democratic passions right now.
SCARBOROUGH: And Al Gore actually started attacking George W. Bush before most of the Democratic Party establishment did, right?
MATTHEWS: Well, freedom is just another word for nothing else to lose, right?
(LAUGHTER)
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