Dems Debate: We Say Draft Al Gore
The Democratic candidates for president debated in front of the AFL-CIO at Chicago's Soldier Field Tuesday night, and all of them performed OK, but...
Democratic rivals accused Sen. Hillary Clinton of being too cozy with lobbyists and Wall Street Tuesday, but the party's presidential front-runner portrayed herself as a champion of working people and commonsense policies, drawing cheers from a crowd of union activists.Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, running second to Clinton in most polls, leveled some of the criticism but was forced to defend his own recent statements on Pakistan during the 90-minute debate sponsored by the AFL-CIO at Chicago's Soldier Field.
... I still say - if Fred Thompson jumps into the race with the support of the Bush royal family and their political guru Karl Rove, and it looks like he will in September, according to recent news reports - then we have no choice but to draft Al Gore. He was on Oprah today talking about global warming, so even little old ladies who watch that show know who he is and they just might go into a voting booth and vote for him - and not even tell their conservative friends.
At least that's the view from Locust Forkland, where the river runs cold and true, the great blue herons all dance like Elvis and the people like to shoot the breeze (and they are usually right).
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In a field stuffed with big government leftists and rightists, Al Gore brings nothing to the table in particular, not that Fred Thompson brings much, either, except folksy humor and a solid career of pretending to be a political leader, off screen and on.
From where I sit, the most attractive Democrat is Bill Richardson. The New Mexico governor has a wide range of government experience as a legislator, diplomat and executive, and is willing to listen to and consider policy options that do not fit the standard left-right mold.
Gore would not win against either Giuliani or Thompson, whose nomination is a long way from being assured even if getting advice from Karl Rove.
The Democrats would do well to nominate Richardson, but drafting Gore would be a fatal mistake, most especially if Giuliani is the nominee, which my money says he will be.
Posted by: Yana Davis | August 9, 2007 08:29 PM
As I already said in my column on the subject of May 31, 2007, I've bet the Yuengling that the race will be between Thompson and Gore.
Krystal Ball: It's Thompson vs. Gore in '08
Of course I could be wrong, but don't forget we live in a country where celebrity matters, like the spoof movie "American Dreamz."
So what he brings to the table is celebrity. If he had run on his environmental record in 2000, instead of letting the Daley Machine in Chicago run a centrist campaign, we would not be in the mess we are in today.
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August 10, 2007 03:52 PM