How do we get Al Gore to run?

[BurtWorm]

Any ideas?

[NYCGirl]

1. First of all, be patient. Nothing will happen until after the 06 elections

[BurtWorm]

13. You're right.

:toast:

[Warren DeMontague]

2. No one wants him to run more than me, but right now

I'm not worrying about it.

I trust in the fundamental rightness of the idea- but part of that is, I think he'd be foolish to open it up right now. He's doing the smartest thing possible by staying out of it until the time is right.

[Downtown Hound]

3. Mark my words, he will run

If he came out now and said he was running, he would be subject to a campaign to destroy him unlike anything we could imagine. This would come not only from the Repukes who fear he could win but from the DLC'ers who want Hillary to run. It would be Howard Dean times 20.

I think Gore learned a lot from the 2000 debacle and is now playing it smart. But I really think he has every intention of running...and winning.

[durrrty libby]

4. Hopefully, he is just holding his cards close to the vest right now.

It is too early, but it is great that he is out there creating a buzz.

However, there is a webby set up already

http://draftgore.com/

[Iris]

16. He was on Fresh Air this week and said he's not planning to run in 08, BUT

he is not ready to say he never will run for President again.

[Minnesota Libra]

23. Al Gore actually said that word for word?? Then he is just waiting.......

....to be drafted. :bounce: Let's get the petitions going then. :loveya:

[iconoclastNYC]

5. Follow him around.

Get a little army of people to follow him around at a respectful distance. These people would be wearing black funeral attire. This group of people while in service to the cause are mourning the death of American democracy.

These elite volunteer demonstrators would maintain a strict vow of silence while on "official duty". They follow Gore around so that he can see them mourning the death of American democracy. Half of the protestors carry an image of the American flag flown upside down to indicate distress. The other half carry signage that reads:

PRESIDENT GORE:
PLEASE EXPOSE THE THEFT
AND CLAIM YOUR OFFICE
IN 2008

The Draft Gore Movement could evolve organically from a movement to get the dirty little
secret about our elections in the to open. That would seem very natural and very geniuine
and help get out the message about Democracy being functionaly DEAD.

DVDs and footage of of these silent "demonstration" should be widely distributed.

Then get someone to make a documentary about the who topic. A la F-911.

Does Gore know anything about documentaries? Or staring media networks?

Do I see the light at the end of the tunnel?

[movonne]

10. You really have a great Idea there...

[Minnesota Libra]

25. Let's do it!! Sounds great!! I'm serious, let's get this going!!! nt

[Skelington]

44. You're joking right?

How about some monkeys running through the crowd begging donations? or a clown filled hybrid car to complete the circus?

It makes a little more sense to have your group follow Bush with the "death of Democracy" flags, I guess.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

53. Genius!

Seriously, where do I sign? I've got a nice black funeral number in the closet I think I can still fit into.

:thumbsup:

[Catchawave]

6. Does he have a PAC set up ?

Or a Draft website? Send lots of money :hi:

[durrrty libby]

26. There is one

http://draftgore.com/

[movonne]

7. I have been thinking about that too..all I could come up with is

a draft...don't know how we go about that...

[durrrty libby]

27. Already done

http://draftgore.com/

[adriennui]

8. i think he had his day

he should have held on to the 2000 election like a pitbull. he won by more than a 1/2 million more votes and contested electorals in florida.

I WILL NEVER BELIEVE THAT THE CHIMP IS MY PRESIDENT. (sorry for the caps)

[iconoclastNYC]

33. He did better than Kerry

Didn't he?

[adriennui]

36. yes he did...he actually won the presidency

i'm disappointed that he backed down. he should have challenged the returns for a longer period of time.
i would have rather seen a constitutional crisis and this country without a president than what we're living through now.

let's have a new unsullied candidate, wesley clark sounds good to me.

[iconoclastNYC]

43. I don't trust Wes Clark

I don't know who's pulling his strings. The fact that the Clintons were pushing for him makes me suspicious.

[BurtWorm]

47. Wesley Clark took an awfully long time to give up the idea

that Iraq could be made to work if "we" just did it right. It seems an awful lot like the Hillary position, which is a loser, if you ask me.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

55. Ugh! He didn't "back down" until after the SCOTUS ruling!

[rogue emissary]

9. A large scale march on DC in support of Gore running in '08.

No side issues, no speeches. Just a grass roots movement of people marching for a President Al Gore.

[BurtWorm]

12. I love it. I'd go in a minute.

:toast:

[rogue emissary]

17. I thought about it when Gore was asked what would get him to run.

His reply was kinda cryptic as he suggested he doesn't see any circumstance that would get him to run. So I figure there would have to be a big event beyond clinton dropping out, a draft or people sending his PAC money.

[iconoclastNYC]

34. Why D.C.?

D.C. marches don't get coverage from the national media.

It'd be better if they were everywhere. Maybe on the same day each month. That way you could try to get local press coverage.

[savemefromdumbya]

11. Send him a nice letter

[pdxmike]

14. He'll be in

I almost certain that he's in. But as others have said, there's no upside to tipping his hat at this point. He has the luxury of waiting until the last minute to announce.

BTW- I went to cafe press and ordered gore2008 stickers for my wife and my cars.

[Bitter Cup]

15. We don't live in a time where we can force a popular draft

I fear. We can't make him run.

He will or he won't based on a lot of behind the scenes stuff that we have little knowledge of. I'm sure they know about our blog support of him. I'm sure he and his wife have a finger on the internet pulse and whathave you.

But the democratic party isn't to a point yet where DU and Moveon are going to set the agenda...yet.

I suspect Gore, if he doesn't run, is making that decision because he knows more about how bad it is than we do. And he knows more about how little change or power he'd really have. Not to be a downer but my hunch is that Gore is appealing now because he can be honest due to having NO illusions left. It's the illusions that let you make all those compromises that inevitably destroy our candidates.

Tear all that away and they have nothing to lose...then we love them. But then they know how massive and evil the machine really is.

I love Al. If someone calls me and asks me if I'd vote for him I will say YES. But precisely because I trust his new found vision I will also trust that he knows if he's ready to run or not.

I'm going to believe what the man says. And right now he's saying no.

18. Promise him he will win - but then we would need to deal with the

dark forces to make sure our guy got in.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

19. Yell "Brown suits on sale!"

:hide:

[BooScout]

20. Other than a draft like was done to Wesley Clark...I dunno....

......But Gore over all others would get my vote.

I keep looking at all other candidates and have defended several here....including Hillary....but the biggest problem to me regarding Hillary(and I'm a far leftie and like her btw).....is that she has never gone after Bush like she should have. She continues to give him a pass so she doesn't alienate voters in the center.........well folks........that's alienated me. It's way past time for candidates to go for the jugular regarding the Bush record.

Gore has stood against Bush from the beginning.........and frankly he has often stood alone. Damned if he hasn't known all along what is right and fought for us all. He's not wavered.

[nansocal]

21. the only option...

is to draft him.

[Minnesota Libra]

22. If I ever met Al Gore face to face I'd.......

....be tempted to get on my hands and knees and beg. A bit drastic yes, but after what we've been through and still going through I'm thinking about it.

Other than that we could absolutely flood his email account and home (snail mail) with letters begging him to run. I'm definitely doing this one.

[durrrty libby]

28. There is a draft webby

http://draftgore.com/

[Minnesota Libra]

31. Welcome to DU and THANK YOU for this web site.........

....I intend to check this out really good. Thanks much :bounce: :hi:

[GumboYaYa]

46. I am participating in a filmakers symposium with him on June 15

at the silverdocs film festival in DC and may do just that. Any advice on what to say is appreciated.

[slackmaster]

24. Set him on fire?

:shrug:

[sweetheart]

29. Om Lord Shiva

Please set Al Gore on fire, and ask him to complete his presidency
by actually serving. He's not off the hook, he knows inside that
to complete the whole thing, he's the knight in shining armour.

No amount of cinema will change that, it only preludes it.

I'm gonna look for an address at Al Gore's website, and write
him a letter asking him personally, please, for all the reasons
i have, to please run. I don't think it has to do with how many
write and ask him, but who and how they do it.

he's a man with a heart who obviously loves very deeply what he has
committed his whole life to, and out of love, i'm hoping he comes around.
I look forward to serving president Gore.

[goodboy]

30. He's already runnin' I guarantee it. And he'll win. Have you seen

the speeches he's been giving recently? such as this one, hosted by bobb barr of all people
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/01/16.html#a6728

Hillary is the Repuke's wet dream candidate in '08, and personally, I think she's got too much baggage to eek out a win in 08...maybe 2016? The pukes have already "sighted her in", so to speak, and are ready to launch a volley of divisive fear ads and commercials of mass disgustion. and you know damn well the dumbfounded dipshit american people will suck it up like they always do because they've got collective short-term (4 yr)electoral alzheimer's disease. even though the last 8 years have been the worst in their lives, they'll still be easily convinced that brown people are coming for grandma, and that WMD's are in their SUV's and and G.O.D. is down with GWB...

scary/.


http://psychosy.blogspot.com/2006/01/gored-out-of-his-boots.html


Gore'd Out Of His Boots

President-Elect Al Gore is currently live on C-SPAN skewering the hell out of President-Select George W. Bush. The camera just panned the audience and there's no doubt that the rubes at Powerline, LGF, and Freeperville will beligerately claim that the near capacity crowd should be tried for treason and hating 'Murika. Oh, and someone should check on The Maltese Malkin -- I can actually hear the foam start to collect on her muzzle already like a can of Barbasol ...


Extended Thoughts: RawStory dishes out a full transcript of Al Gore's speech. Also, a very belated thanks goes to John & Mike at C&L and for the frontpage love and their readers. I was so attentive to eating brunch while absorbing every morsel of Gore's speech that engaging in any other activity would've been a distraction. Sorry if any C&L visitors may have gotten the impression of me live-blogging the event. That would've been impossible -- aside from probably sucking at it, this was one of those events where I felt my obligations as a citizen outweighed my obligations as a blogger and thus Gore deserved my full and undivided attention. There's much better live-bloggers in the 'Sphere and, as good as their talents are, I don't believe they would've done this event justice. Even RawStory's transcript itself loses Gore's passion and conviction which can only be experianced by hearing and watching his speech.

[durrrty libby]

32. “ He's already runnin' I guarantee it. And he'll win"

Oh how I hope you are right.

Thanks for the links. I watched one of his speeches a few months ago and he was breathing fire. It gave me chills.

I have a list of some of his appearances this month, but I’m always looking for more.


Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday, June 8, and on The View on
Monday,
June 19. He will appear on The Late Show with David Letterman on
Friday,
June 23. In addition, Mr. Gore will make at least a dozen more major
national appearances to promote the book. He is slated for
book-signings
in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Houston,
Vancouver,
and other major cities. In anticipation of high demand for the book,
Rodale has already shipped more than 100,000 copies to stores. This
book
has been certified carbon neutral by Native Energy. For more
information
go to www.nativeenergy.com (link:http://www.nativeenergy.com/)”

[goodboy]

52. sounds like a tour a candidate raising money might do, eh?

[iconoclastNYC]

35. How about a campaign donation pledge site?

Like that one that was set up along time for anyone who ran against Liberman?

[adriennui]

37. i don't understand the devotion to al gore

if you can tell me wants immediate withdrawal from iraq...i'm with him. but he's been wishy washy (in the past) on abortion and has a holier than thou attitude. i'm not comfortable with his condescending speech and his views on the economy.

[Rose Siding]

39. So don't have a beer with him

i'm not comfortable with his condescending speech

I wish he parted his hair on the other side, but I'm getting over it.

[BurtWorm]

40. For me, it's not just that he was robbed of the presidency

in broad daylight by a group of the most despicable thugs in US history, and I strongly believe Nature's balance needs to be restored and the political order set right and only a Gore presidency can do that. (But that could just be the Shakespearean English major in me.) It's also that since 9/11, Gore has, more than any other Democrat, represented Opposition to Bushism. He was one of the first after 9/11 to speak out against the drive to go to war in Iraq. He also supported Howard Dean's grassroots insurrection against Business as Usual, even over his 2000 running mate (who, incidentally, despite his pretense of faithfulness, was the first to drive a knife in Gore's back by criticizing his populist approach almost immediately after the Bush selection--and that's not counting his betrayal during the post-election on the question of counting illegal absentee ballots from service people in Florida). And finally, I think he could derail Hillary, who seriously needs to be derailed.

I don't find Gore condescending to me. He condescended to Bush, but that was an act of mercy, considering what a pea brain is in the boy's skull.

[adriennui]

48. Ok, i can certainly understand your reasons

when i said "speech" i was referring to speechES (not chatting.

[Rose Siding]

38. I wrote to Tipper about it.

-Just a note to the Nashville office. In another month I'll write him a longer letter.

[JI7]

41. if he doesn't run, why is that ?

maybe figure out the reasons for his not running and address those points and let him know why it would be worth it to still run. my thoughts on Gore is that he would love to be President and deal with all the problems he would as President. but he probably feels the campaign is not worth it, especially if he feels his chances are not that good.

one problem is that he wouldn't have the support of the guy he served as vp under assuming Hillary runs also. the whole thing would be kind of weird and the whore media would probably focus on that instead of the issues. of course that can benefit Gore in a way also by allowing him to point out how he is different from Hillary. and it would put Hillary under the spotlight and she would be forced to answer on her position on the issues.

i like someone other than Gore . but i would have no problem with Gore getting into the race or even being the candidate in 2008.

[RB TexLa]

42. You mean if he doesn't want to run?

We don't, we respect him as a human being able to make decisions for himself.

[StellaBlue]

45. He will run.

And he will win.

[Southsideirish]

49. Surround his house every night and chant "Get into Bush's house!" nt

[BurtWorm]

50. On the Voters's March in May 2001, we shouted "Get Out of Al's House!"

as we passed the WH.

[gauguin57]

51. Time Mag. just reported Al is sending fundraisers to other candidates

Time's story on Al's "Inconvenient Truth" popularity said Al has privately been telling his major fundraisers that he isn't running and that they are free to commit to other candidates.

Hmmmm.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1198888,00.html

"One development suggests that Gore may indeed be burning the bridges to his political career. In recent weeks, Democratic sources tell TIME, he has been quietly telephoning some of his biggest fund raisers and telling them to feel free to sign on with other potential candidates. And he wants them to put out the word, instructing, "Tell everybody I'm not running." Still, Gore is positioned better than just about anyone else to tap the enormous, near instant fund-raising potential of the Internet should he choose to, considering the following he has generated among bloggers and with the Net-based political organization MoveOn.org ..."

[Joe Fields]

54. By just continuing to show how much we need him.

What we want is for him to run.

What we don't want is for him to give any indication, until the time is right.

The time is not right yet.

I feel certain that he will run. Just give him time.

[DefenseLawyer]

56. He is running now

and doing a heck of a job.