I want Gore in 2008. Maybe he can pull a Nixon? There are a lot of similarities between Nixon's career and Gore's. Let's just hope it would end better.

He is smart enough, and correct enough to have my support. But is he electable? He really needs to grow some balls, and show more personality. Of course, he already won once, but the Repug's are going to campaign everything they have into slandering him, because they want Hillary, a centrist the left will hate, as well as a polarizing voting knee-jerk for the righties.

He'd have my vote again in a minute. He won the popular vote last time, and probably the electoral vote. I think he may be long on substance and short on what some consider "style" altho I can't imagine anyone thinking Bush has style. I like his style, that's just my interpretation of this:
http://www.csbsju.edu/uspp/ExecutiveSummaries/Gore.html
The Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC) was used to construct the personality profile, based on empirical analysis of biographic materials. The 170 MIDC criteria permit classification of political figures along 12 personality dimensions, or 34 categories. Personality patterns are used to predict presidential performance and leadership style.
KEY FINDINGS
Vice President Gore’s personality-based leadership strengths include:
conscientiousness and low susceptibility to ethical misconduct;
ambition rooted in a sense of duty;
well-consolidated character integrity; and
attention to detail and skill in orchestrating and crafting specific policies.
Vice President Gore’s personality-based leadership limitations include:
deficits in the important political skills of interpersonality, charisma, and spontaneity;
interpersonal relatedness marked by detachment, or aloofness;
limited ability to arouse, engage, and direct the public in support of his policy initiatives or retain his support in the face of adversity; and
a self-defeating potential for dogmatically advancing a favored policy or principle in defiance of legislative or public disapproval.

Whaaa???

Jeb isn't gonna run???

Death of a Monarchy??

Say it isn't so!!

Of course I would vote for Gore, but I don't see the Democratic Party doing that. I have 0% confidence in the Democratic Party running a candidate I would feel good voting for.

Are they destined to be losers forever?

In unscripted moment, Gore says he's a 'recovering politician' who has to worry about 'relapse'

RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday May 16, 2006

Former Vice President Al Gore gave yet another vague hint yesterday in Atlanta that he might be open to a run for the presidency in 2008, RAW STORY has found.

Gore told a reporter for the Atlanta Progressive News, a nascent politics site, that he was a "recovering politican," but added, "You always have to worry about a relapse."

The exchange took place following an Atlanta screening of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the Tennessee Democrat's new global warming film.

Kalee Kreider, Gore's communications director, did not immediately return a RAW STORY call seeking comment.

According to the Progressive News' account, the site's news editor asked the erstwhile Vice President, “Will you please, please run for President?”

After the crowd cheered Gore in encouragement, the Progressive News' Matthew Cardinale reports, the former Vice President told the audience, “I’m a recovering politician, on Step Nine. Thank you for your sentiment.”

"Later, after the larger crowd left the theater, APN Staff Writer Susan Keith brought the issue up again in a more private, yet informal gathering in the theater after the show," Cardinale adds. "'It’s not a sentiment!' she said, while others in attendance offered their campaign support and said, stop listening to those consultants."

According to the site's account, Gore replied: "Like I said, I'm a recovering politician. But you always have to worry about a relapse."

http://www.rawstory.com/

I think Gore deserves RE election.
I think he'd make a good President!

Would be nice to have someone give a damn about the environment!

Lighten up.

That was one of his more cheerful posts, I thought.

I call it exactly like I see it and will continue to do so. The Democratic Party of today is its own worst enemy and is to blame for much of its loss of political control. I wish I could say they were learning from their mistakes but I see no sign of it, with such insightful leaders as Pelosi and Reid in charge. They are not interested in learning or doing something different so they could win. They are interested in doing the same, ineffective things and just hoping people will become tired enough of Republican corruption, scandal, and incompetence to turn to them instead, the only viable alternative. With an "opposition party" like them, Bush and the Republicans have no effective opposition. Call me negative if you will, but you know I speak truth. And these are the people we turn to to save us from the Republicans in 2006 and 2008. Nice.

And if I irritate a few Democrats on this board by putting down your party for their behavior, I have no apologies for that at all.

Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore »
Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) will unveil two 60-second TV ads focusing on what it calls “global warming alarmism and the call by some environmental groups and politicians to reduce fossil fuel and carbon dioxide emissions.” The ad, which will be aired in more than a dozen cities across the country, is being released just a week before the May 24th opening (in LA and NYC) of Al Gore’s new movie on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.

Who is CEI? The the Washington Post explains:

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which widely publicizes its belief that the earth is not warming cataclysmically because of the burning of coal and oil, says Exxon Mobil Corp. is a “major donor” largely as a result of its effort to push that position.

CEI also gets funding from other oil companies through the American Petroleum Institute.

Exxon documents reveal the company gave $270,000 to CEI in 2004 alone. $180,000 of that was earmarked for “global climate change and global climate change outreach.” Exxon has contributed over $1.6 million to CEI since 1998.

CEI’s general counsel Sam Kazman said, “I think what attracted [Exxon] to us was our position on global warming.” CEI’s position? The Institute believes the dangers of global warming are akin “to that of ‘an alien invasion.’”

http://www.thinkprogress.org/

If Al Gore ran in 08 I would work his campaign in my area. I worked Naders campaign in my area and I had a blast.

I thought you were a republican. Why did you work for Nader?

I didnt just magically transform into a liberal, there was a stage of confusion for awhile.

Now I am a Religous Lefty, hated by both sides for half of the other side, which is odd cause nether really have a side, but what is created in our minds.

And now I can give two shits about politcal parties, they are nothing but methods of controling large amounts of voters.

I sort of agree with you there, AFW. Personally, I've been finding myself noticeably to the left of the Democratic party as of late.....and there are quite a few candidates that I would not feel good voting for. Hillary Clinton is one. John Kerry another. Both, I think, could possibly get the Democratic nomination. However, I would definitely vote for Al Gore. I've enjoyed what he's had to say as of late and I think he'd make a good President.

Sadly, whoever gets in office is in for a rough road.....as they will have to bear the brunt of the Shrub's 8-year fiscal insanity as well as his war on civil rights. Eventually someone's going to have to slash the budget and raise taxes to make up for the multi-trillion dollar deficit this moronic administration has incurred.

If only Dennis Kucinich had a shot. Now there's a candidate I could get enthused about.

I like Dennis Kucinich ideologically, too. But for some reason, I feel a growing enthusiasm and excitement about Al Gore. I certainly supported him enthusiastically in 2000, and his solid work in the years since then make me believe that his real commitment is to the nation, not just to winning the election. I think all the dithering about ideology, and the advice to "move right" or "move left" is ultimately just quibbling about campaign tactics, and not really worthy of taking seriously. Al Gore is a man of prinicple, intellect and integrity. These qualities have been almost totally absent from the political scene since 2001, and it will take time to recognize them as part of the American character again.

Look at what we've been quibbling about--declaring English the "official" language, a declaration we haven't needed in over 200 years; building a fuckin' WALL to keep Mexicans out; passing a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage; selling our healthcare to commercial interests...piddly stuff designed to appeal to the stupidity and the basest instincts of the dumbest people in the country. I say that it's time we move away from this utter foolishness, and get on with the business of once again claiming our place as a nation that can stand proud and admired among the other nations of the world. We had an oppotunity after 9/11, but the little fool pissed it away.

Well put Buck. If I could appoint a president, Kucinich would surely be on my short list. Here's what Gore Vidal says about him. It's sad but true and speaks to the shallowness of American voters and the media:
I like Dennis Kucinich even though he looks rather peculiar. This is not a beauty pagent and everything he says is quite correct. He hasn't missed one issue that he's turned to that he hasn't been, in my view at least, right about.

People won't take him seriously because he's the wrong height, and um, the hair is deplorable. It's the only negative thing I can say about him, but then, he can get a crewcut perhaps, on inauguration day.

If they'd take him seriously, people might listen to the issues. If they'd listen to the issues, things might start to change, but they won't. They can't. Same people who own the political system own the media.

True story that there Sooner,

For years, since grade school I've been hearing that in these modern TV times,
if Lincoln himself were to run for president, he couldn't possibly win.
He's lanky and ungainly, messy hair, and not very attractive.
In short, his TV presence would simply suck!

National Elections are more the Olympics of Apperance than ANYTHING of real substance!
A short, fat and balding man with no family will never be elected president!
Even if the man were politically brilliant!

Ralph Nader is my hero too... I would have been in Nirvana MM. That is an idea about Al Gore's campaign I hope I have time to do in 2008. But what if the Iraq War is over "in time" before the '08 elections... the NeoCONS , errr I mean the Republican Party just might pull that stunt out of their hat.

I voted for Gore in 2000 when he won, im not convinced he's the answer to the democratic ticket nor am I convinced with Hillary either.

To this point im still waiting for a democrate with a legitimate chance to impress me so until something like that happens Ill stick with the 3rd parties or say the hell with the whole thing and not vote

If Gore acted like he is NOW instead of THEN, id vote for him.

Who are the two that are going to vote Republican?