Al Gore, is this his moment?
Could it be? Is it time? Time for the contention to end and Al to take up his rightful place at the head of the Democratic Presidential Race? You must remember how I have suggested this before, here and here and a few other places. Now Joe Klein over at Time Mag is considering, what if? It’s looking like neither Hillary nor Barack will be able to pick up the number of delegates he or she needs:
Which brings us back to Al Gore. Pish-tosh, you say, and you’re probably right. But let’s play a little. Let’s say the elders of the Democratic Party decide, when the primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is viable. Let’s also assume—and this may be a real stretch—that such elders are strong and smart enough to act. All they’d have to do would be to convince a significant fraction of their superdelegate friends, maybe fewer than 100, to announce that they were taking a pass on the first ballot at the Denver convention, which would deny the 2,025 votes necessary to Obama or Clinton. What if they then approached Gore and asked him to be the nominee, for the good of the party—and suggested that he take Obama as his running mate? Of course, Obama would have to be a party to the deal and bring his 1,900 or so delegates along.
What if?
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Oddly enough, I posted this over at my new D & C blog this morning:
As this Clinton/Obama drama drags on
some folks in the Party lament, “No more!”
But there are others who are starting to smile -
a deadlocked convention might turn to Al Gore.
Don’t think it’s going to happen, but it’s a nice dream.
One can dream I suppose and I count myself among those who would have held out in the primary season to consider Gore but this ship has left the station (see if anyone is paying attention).
For it to happen the democratic presidential candidate would have to be selected at the convention by party insiders. Sort of like we are facing now with the super delegate discussion.
Regardless of how good Gore was/is/will be seems like a selection of him would herald an undemocratic selection process.
The whole thing smack of a white knight to rescue us.
Yet more internal division. Why am I not surprised?
???? I don’t know what this means.
I was responding to your “White Knight” comment. We become so disenfranchised without two leading candidates that we like neither, and instead look for an alternative at this late stage of the game.
If this was soccer, we’re playing with deflating balls.
Al Gore is not going to come in and run for President at this point. The fact that this is displayed plays into exactly what the GOP is hopeful for. Internal division, discontent amongst the Democrat, Independant and Blank voters.
Right now people SHOULD be working on camapaigns supporting their candidate of choice. And there is a choice. Two people. Two people who have invested alot, personally, financially, and professionally.
That’s the part that bugs me - we play right into it. Step out of the doo-doo. Support the one you love. Don’t look back.
OK - I think we are agreeing. Maybe I’m a bit more subtle in my approach. We have two powerful candidates.
Frankly, I’m tired of the media driving the narrative. Either Clinton or Obama will be the Democratic nominee. The Democrats will line up behind either when the time comes. The Republicans will line up behind McSame. We will see how the Indy’s break. I don[t think anyone really knows yet because…
McSame is like Giuliani the more you learn about him the more you find his stances revolting.
Oh, yes. But according to the NY Post, Giuliani has already signed up to be our next Governator.
Even trash has a place.
I know, I know. There’s less chance of Glore running than for Hillary to run a clean campaign.
WOW - an opportunity to bash Hillary Clinton passed up by Lee.
I think he just did bash her.