Re: terrifying
- From: "amdx" <amdx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:41:48 -0500
"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Don't get to comfortable,
It's terrifying to think how close this lunatic got to being
President.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-09-18T212718Z_01_N18271786_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-GORE.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
John
Clinton vs. Gore?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Townhall.com
On Saturday on MSNBC, this writer volunteered that if Al
Gore would enter the Democratic primaries, he could defeat
Hillary Clinton and win the nomination. Hours later, there
popped up on Drudge this headline: "Al Gore Says He Hasn't
Ruled Out Second Run."
"I haven't ruled out running for president again in the
future, but I don't expect to," Gore told reporters in
Australia, where he has been promoting his film on global
warming, "An Inconvenient Truth."
Al must have been watching MSNBC.
And why should Al Gore cede the nomination and a place in
history he coveted to the spouse of the man but for whose
personal transgressions he would be president of the United
States?
If Al ran, he would open with a pair of aces. To Democrats,
Gore was right on the war when almost everyone else was
wrong, which gives him the inside track to the antiwar vote
that will be as crucial in the Democratic primaries of 2008
as it was in 1968 and 1972.
Both of the other major antiwar candidates, John Kerry and
John Edwards, voted for the war -- before they voted
against it. Gore opposed it from the outset. And his
endorsement of Howard Dean, much ridiculed when Dean
disintegrated weeks later, looks less like a political
gaffe now than an act of principle.
Second, Gore has taken out the patent on the global warming
issue, and the environmental movement remains a powerful
engine of cash and campaign labor inside the Democratic
Party.
Third, Hillary has slipped 11 points, from 43 to 32, in
a Fox poll of Democrats as to whom they wish to see
nominated. Gore has moved into second at 15, passing Kerry
at 13, for whom a Gore run would probably mean the end of
the line.
Clearly, Hillary has a hellish problem with her stand on
the war. And though she will win a stunning re-election
victory in November, that does not solve her problem with
the party base. She is going to have to move on the war or
be pummeled by the activist wing of the party for two years.
Fourth, as a candidate, Hillary is too programmed. She has
made all the right moves in the Senate to erase her image
as a militant feminist, but lacks the platform skills of
Bill and cannot bring to a debate the passion of Gore, who
appears to believe deeply in what he preaches on both the
war and global warming.
Fifth, her position as front-runner makes her the natural
target for the other candidates, while her loss of 11
points and slippage to 32 percent makes her vulnerable.
In a head-to-head race, Gore runs stronger than Hillary
against McCain. He is down 6, she is down 7. And while
Gore has been damaged by defeats and some of his shrill
speeches, he does not carry as much scar tissue as Hillary.
Sixth, there is a sense among Democrats that Hillary cannot
win a general election. Her six years in the Senate have
not removed the indelible impression of her eight White
House years, when Americans concluded she was too polariz-
ing and divisive a figure to lead the nation. That
sentiment surfaces in every poll.
One of the reasons Gore lost in 2000, though he had a
plurality of the votes, is that many Americans felt the
eight-year soap opera had just gone on for too long. It
had to be canceled.
A Hillary nomination run would revive all that. And while
the leaks about her wanting to take Harry Reid's job rather
than George Bush's seem to have been planted and malicious,
the question has surely crossed her mind as to whether a
nomination run would be worth it, and whether her defeat
would be inevitable, even if nominated.
The advantages Hillary would have in the primaries are
that she holds out the promise of being the first woman
president and no one will raise more money.
If Gore wants to be president, however, this is surely his
last chance, and he would have to begin to pull his old
team together, many of whom have moved on, and to court
state leaders, many of whom have already begun to commit
to other candidates.
Hillary has the option of waiting much longer to decide
when and whether to get in. Gore must decide soon after
November.
When Gore said in Australia he did not rule out running,
he was careful to add, "but I don't expect to." Which is
understandable. Gore has a good life, fame and fortune,
and the possibility of being called to serve in high
office in any future Democratic administration.
But he can also see -- indeed the numbers says so -- that
there is a path to the nomination, and the presidency,
narrow though it may be, that has opened up for him. And
it will be open for only a few months before it closes
again, forever.
Al vs. Hillary. The Gores demanding that the Clintons,
who once put them a heartbeat away from the presidency,
stand aside, because it is Al's turn, not Hillary's. How
would Bill and Hillary deal with that?
.
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