How Gore Can Become Near Perfect (From The Daily Howler).

[Uncle Joe]

Another excellent analysis from the good folks at The Daily Howler, please click on link for full column.

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HOW GORE CAN BECOME NEAR-PERFECT: Is it possible? Could justice prevail? Could Al Gore still become “the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008,” to borrow the language of the Post’s Richard Cohen? (See THE DAILY HOWLER, 4/21/06.) Even in this imperfect world, we’d say that outcome is possible. (We have no idea if Gore would run under any circumstance.) But before we tell you why we’d say that, let’s review Gore’s approval numbers again. And let’s recall the damage that can be done when the mainstream press—not the “right-wing noise machine”—stages a multi-year slander campaign against a man who was right all along.

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THE DAILY HOWLER (7/2/99): Does it matter if scribes behave in this way? Only if America's public discourse matters. In the time since Jim Nicholson devised his spin , Gore's approval ratings have dropped substantially. According to CNN/Time, his "favorable/unfavorables" were 58/26 in late January, and stood at 48/43 on June 10. If it matters who serves as president of the United States, then negative spin by the press corps does matter. In March, Jim Nicholson devised a bit of spin so absurd it's amazing that he dared bring it forward. But it fit right in with other silly spins—his nonsense about internal combustion, for example—and maybe Nicholson has been an insider so long that he knows what he can expect from our sad, sorry press corps.

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Meanwhile, what makes Gore’s numbers especially sad? The fact that Gore has been right all along! He was right on Iraq; he was right on warming; he was right in his critiques of George Bush. (For example, in his critique of Bush’s Social Security plan—for which he was called him every name in the book by our biggest mainstream pundits. See THE DAILY HOWLER, 12/19/05, with links to earlier reports..) But alas! In that Roper survey, even Bush—the man who has been constantly wrong—out-polled Gore—the man who was right. So it goes when the Richard Cohens peddle their inane, endless slanders.

Sadly, it’s hard to be “the “near-perfect candidate” with numbers like those from the Roper survey. But is it possible? Could justice prevail? Could Gore still become “the near-perfect candidate?” Yes—imaginably, he could. We base that on a conversation in our local bagel joint this weekend—a conversation with a friend who had just seen Gore’s forthcoming film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.

[LSparkle]

1. Gore was the last ELECTED President of the U.S.

In 2000, the Supreme Court "selected" DimSon. In 2004, Diebold "engineered" his "victory." We need to restore legitimacy to the White House and RE-ELECT PRESIDENT GORE!

[Uncle Joe]

2. I agree LSparkle,

however, I believe as does The Daily Howler that if our so called fourth estate; aka MSM (see sorry excuse for American Journalism)had not betrayed the American People and slandered Al while masking Bush's corrupt/incompetence, Al would have dominated the electoral map to such a degree as to make it impossible for the neocons and the felonious five to steal the election.

I hold the MSM more responsible for the coup of 2000 than anyone else, because to a large degree, the American People trusted them (they were our fourth estate after all) to tell them the truth and the people were betrayed, long before the other betrayals such as Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings. I also believe a primary reason they trashed and slandered Al so eagerly was precisely because he empowered us when he championed the internet, so they took what should be an extraordinary accomplishment on behalf of the people and beat him over the head with it. In effect their ox was gored by Al (no pun intended) when the internet came along, they wanted to remain the sole gate keepers to the truth and so basically Al was punished for helping the people over the powerful.