Whiskey: WHY did Al Gore decline to run in 2004 and 2008? Why?

In 2004 war fever was still high inside the Beltway, such that a bunch of draft-dodging chicken hawks could attack with impugnity decorated Vietnam vets (Kerry, Murtha) for opposing the occupation of Iraq. There was so much spittle flying at dovish Vietnam veterans in 2004 that Al Gore, a Vietnam veteran himself who also opposed the occupation, didn’t stand a chance.

Since that time Al Gore won a Nobel peace prize and has become the chief spokesman for Global Warming(tm). Al Gore declined to run in 2008 because if he ran again and lost, his political capital will have shrunk to the point where he could no longer be an effective proponent of the neo-Marxist effort to restrain capitalism in the west in the name of saving the planet (while ignoring the unrestricted balls-to-the-wall mercantilism of Communist China).

Brian H: They explained that Walking Eagle is the name given to a bird so full of shit it can no longer fly.

John McCain is a former navy pilot.

Nahncee: I have been thinking to myself the last day or two that the same off-topic trolls and haters have victoriously followed and re-emerged on pjm

That’s the pot calling the kettle Burnt Arse. ‘Twas only a few days ago a certain commentator named Nahncee said, “God, I’m getting so I hate Teresita for comments like this.”