Echo chambers are notoriously distorting. But after reading this, I can’t help it. It’s a total fantasy and totally unrealistic and totally off-the-wall and it would probably be a sucky idea. But I can’t help it. After his recent speech (you can find it here), I want Al Gore to run again.
Hillary’s pissed me off ever since her pandering on flag-burning. I liked the line the other day about the plantation, even though it was awkward, but she’s too much of a politician and lacks Bill’s innate skill. She’ll never win over the 50 percent of the country who doesn’t like her, and she’ll continue to piss off her base.
Gore has said he’s not going to run again, so I’m crazy. Gore’s 2000 campaign was awful, so I’m crazy. Gore is strange and pedantic, so I’m crazy. The media would tear him to pieces, so I’m crazy. And even if Gore has rediscovered his spine, he’d probably lose it once he began another political campaign. So I’m crazy.
I always hated John Kerry. But I always liked Al Gore.
Yeah, I’m crazy. I know. He’s a scholar, not a president. I should give up the fantasy.
In that case, I’m very intrigued by this guy.
I think you and I feel exactly the same way. I don’t know anyone who was more pro-Hillary than I was — until the flag thing. Except about Warner. I think he’s a tool. Also, you can’t really draft someone who’s running, you know?
One thing I liked about Hillary is that there are simply no swift boat veterans left in her closet. But the same is true about Gore. I wonder if eight years later the voters would better appreciate the Clinton years than we did in 2000. Back then Gore didn’t run on that record. Now he could. And should.
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I want Gore to run again as well, Jeff! And he should run on the record of the Clinton years, Abstract Nixon.
Plus he’s Hot Daddy!