Would you leave your candidate for Gore?

By: drmontoya
Published On: 4/23/2007 2:19:53 PM

Al Gore

Posted At Daily Kos

I would.

And so would VolvoDrivingLiberal who supports Edwards and shares my passion for electing Gore or re-electing Gore to the Presidency depending how you see it.

I still describe myself officially as a Clarkie. I was part of the Draft Clark movement since the Spring of 2003. Many of my diaries here on Daily Kos have been about Wesley Clark.

However, I wonder right now if he will actually enter the Presidential race.

I have recently decided to support Barack Obama until either Clark or Gore enter the race.

But the person that I feel should be our nominee and the next President of the United States is the most deserving the guy who actually got elected in the first place.
I am not part of the Draft Gore movement, I feel that no draft will encourage or discourage Gore to enter the race in 2008. It will be him and only him who decides that this is what is best for him and his beliefs.

I believe any American President can change the world if he or she wants to.

Many of our Presidents have, and some of our Presidents have failed in that calling.

Al Gore could change the world, in many respects he already has. Sometime losing is refreshing, losing is renewing, Al Gore is not a politician anymore.

He's an American.

Citizen Al Gore has been relieved of all the political pressure to say "what's right" and not say "what's wrong". He as many have seen no longer holds his tongue.

When this President led us into a failed war, Gore spoke out. When this President left the Kyoto treaty, Gore spoke out. As this President has put us closer to a constitutional crisis, Gore spoke out.

No matter who you support for President, it is evident as a good Democrats we all are.

Al Gore has been more of a President than George W. Bush has.

Al Gore is the President give America it's place back in the world community.

Global leaders love him, young people love him, good ol' Democrats love him.

So, in this diary as the title says.. would you?

Would you leave your candidate for Gore? As I would leave Obama for Gore, as VolvoDrivingLiberal would leave Edwards for Gore.

Would you?

Comments



Written on DK (drmontoya - 4/23/2007 2:20:16 PM)
Thought I'd share with RK! =)


misc. (PM - 4/23/2007 2:40:02 PM)
I can't figure out now where I bought the Montoya wine.  It is available online.  I tried the three stores I frequent most, including Trader Joe's, and found nothing.


looked at Trader Joes (drmontoya - 4/23/2007 2:54:32 PM)
And didn't find anything either!


I have a couple more "outside chances" (PM - 4/23/2007 4:53:14 PM)
I'll report back.


On your diary (PM - 4/23/2007 2:43:28 PM)
I find all the current leaders acceptable, and I agree Gore has some especially strong points going for him, especially his foresight on the environment.

And I think there may be a psychology that will get people to say -- "damn, I should've voted for him in the first place."

How about a slogan -- "Get it right this time."



Absence makes the heart grow fonder (TheGreenMiles - 4/23/2007 3:25:32 PM)
Look, I love Al Gore and everything he's done for the environmental movement.  Couldn't have more respect for the guy.  But I think in the 7 years he's been out of the political spotlight, people forget one very important thing:

Al Gore was a HORRENDOUS presidential candidate. 

Millions of liberals were so disgusted with his "moderate" ("moderate" = terrified silence) stances on issues like guns that they went to Nader or stayed home.

And remember his petulant sighs during the first debate, then his total-opposite extreme-politeness in the second debate?  As Simon Cowell would say, just dreadful.



He was dreadful, wasn't he. (PM - 4/23/2007 4:55:16 PM)
And so was Kerry.  And Bush was even worse!  How did people vote for Bush? 


How did people vote for Bush? (Lowell - 4/23/2007 5:39:35 PM)
The first time, they didn't.  Gore won 51,003,926 votes (48.4%) to 50,460,110 (47.9%) for Bush.  Don't even get me started on Florida, hanging chads, butterfly ballots, Katherine Harris and the Supreme Court.  Also, I would point out that the first time, a lot of people were fooled by Bush's talk about being a "reformer" and someone who would govern as a moderate who proved he could work with Democrats as governor of Texas.  Not!

The second time, there's no real excuse.  I think that people were scared and demagogued into voting for Bush, plain and simple.  Also, Kerry ran the WORST campaign in human history.  Absolutely awful.  Very sad, given the fact that Bush has been the worst President in U.S. history.  How many years will it take to undo the damage these guys have done since 2001?  Can it ever be undone?



Oops. Al Gore is a creationist. (PM - 4/24/2007 8:07:59 AM)
This bothers me.  How can you be a man of science and not believe in the modern science of evolution?  PZ Myers reports:

http://scienceblogs....



Love Edwards but would marry Gore (volvodrivingliberal - 4/26/2007 6:01:53 PM)
Dave, great commentary. I too was a Clarkie and volunteered countless hours in his primary campaign in SC, but I have became convinced earlier this year that Wes is staying out of the game. Edwards would make an extraordinary President, but Al Gore would be like manna from heaven.

This is certainly not an issue of disloyalty to Edwards, or in your case to Obama, but I am convinced a ticket with Gore at the top would be an unbeatable candidacy. A Gore/Edwards or Gore/Obama ticket would be Nirvana.