Comments on: “You Know Me Al”: With Obama Wounded and Hillary Unappealing, Will Gore Finally Surface?

By: Andrew Zalotocky

Andrew Zalotocky — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:48:08 +0000

For Gore to enter the race after the state primaries had finished would mean that he was missing out on any opportunity to gain a mandate from the party activists. He could only win through shady backroom deals with the delegates at a brokered convention, so to most party members it would surely look like the fix was in. Many activists would probably see parallels with the 2000 election, but with Gore in the role of George Bush. After all the hype about the possibility of the first black president or the first female president they also wouldn’t be too thrilled about a rich white guy dropping-in to take the nomination at the last minute. Rather than being the unity candidate Gore would be the disunity candidate.

As for his chances against McCain, Gore‚Äôs sensationalist environmentalism would prove to be a major liability. The Republicans would use Gore’s own words against him, to portray him as an alarmist who wanted to shut down huge swathes of American industry and raise taxes sky-high. The message to blue-collar voters would be “vote for Gore and he’ll take away your job”. The message to middle-class voters would be “vote for Gore and he’ll tax you up to the eyeballs and make you drive a small car – oh, and he’s a billionaire so he’ll be living it up in his mansion while you struggle to pay your mortgage”. The worse the economic downturn the better those messages would play.

By: CraigC

CraigC — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:05:04 +0000

Wow, a “Beggar’s Banquet” reference. I like it.

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:54:04 +0000

I’ll bet Charlie has read it.

Charlie has an autographed copy of it.

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:47:16 +0000

John Derbyshire, the columnist at National Review Online, has been predicting – for the past year – not only that Gore will be the Democrat nominee, but that he will be the next president.

You know, Heather, I love John, he’s a good friend, but he really should look into Prozac or something. Luckily, I don’t recall him ever getting one of the Ee-yore predictions right.

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:57:34 +0000

Absolutely right, ic. It’s racism. You got it nailed, guy. It’s always racism. Good work.

By: ic

ic — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:56:38 +0000

Why is the “dream ticket” either “Al Gore for Prez, Barack Obama for Veep” or “Hillary for Prez, Obama for Veep”, not the other way? The last time I read Drudge, Obama was leading in delegates count. Someone is subliminally racist here, no?

By: Insufficiently Sensitive

Insufficiently Sensitive — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:33:50 +0000

Hillary, as winner, will alienate the blacks

No, she’d get on her victimology train and offer them some of the most magnificant panders since the Roman Emperors had to buy their own lives and careers in the currency of immense donatives to the Army.

By: Captain Hate

Captain Hate — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:29:18 +0000

Gore, who is listed as executive chairman, and his CEO partner, lawyer-turned-entrepreneur Joel Hyatt, each loaned the company $1 million to get it started.

Joel Hyatt aka Howard Metzenbaum’s (who died a couple days ago) son-in-law who ran for Howard’s Senate seat and got thoroughly trounced. Put together a buncha legal clinics for the “people” that are the equivalent of check cashing services in the inner-city. Really stepped in it during 2006 when convicted of illegal discrimination for firing one of his managers for having AIDS; the offense was so outrageous that punitive damages were tacked on. Pure scum; you can really judge weird Al by the company he keeps. An inconvenient truth.

By: MisterSnitch

MisterSnitch — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:23:35 +0000

Two wounded, angry animals locked in a steel cage match. The winner gets to face a fresh challenger. Hillary, as winner, will alienate the blacks, Obama the whites. Not much choice for the Dems either way right now. Plus, the winner gets to explain Spitzer to the nation.

I actually do not see Obama getting past this all-black church demagoguery thing. It doesn’t matter how many Obama fans stop by here to attack Roger Simon ñ that ain’t gonna feed the bulldog.

And the bulldog is very, very hungry right now. He will probably just help himself. Woof.

By: Jamie Irons

Jamie Irons — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:05:54 +0000

John Moore wrote:

This just ain’t gonna happen. Derbyshire should go back to writing about math…

Now I admit I’m a mathematics aficionado, but I think Derbyshire’s Prime Obsession, the story of the Riemann Hypothesis, is one of the best books of any kind I have ever read. In addition to getting filled in on a ton of interesting mathematics, one gets a virtual education in modern European history.

I’ll bet Charlie has read it.

Jamie Irons