I Hope A Democratic Governor Runs For President....

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Considering the fact that a sitting senator hasn't become president in nearly fifty years and a governor doesn't have as many votes to defend a governor offers us the best hope of victory in 08....

[emulatorloo]

1. I'm tired of "blank-slate" governors who need on the job training

I want somebody who knows how to get things done in washington

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. FDR And Clinton Did Nice Jobs

[emulatorloo]

22. FDR and Clinton were super -- but there aren't many of them

but lots of George Bushes

[Hubert Flottz]

3. I didn't know that...

Al Gore was a governor...

[question everything]

17. Looking backward does not winners make

Yes, we can continue to lament the fiasco in Florida and in Ohio but enough is enough. We have to look forward for the future. Keeping pouting about the past is a losing proposition... for people and for a nation.

Frankly, I think that Gore should have never run. Again, if we are looking at the past 50 years, only one V.P. went straight to the White House - Bush I - and he lasted only one term.

Why? Because for four, or eight years, a V.P. is supposed to stay in the shadows of the leader, to be seen but not to be heard, and yet, be contaminated by whatever scandals took place during the administration. And every administration has its own scandals.

A V.P. has to get out in the world, to built his own name on his own merit and then run again.

As for the Gore candidacy, like Kerry he was too intellectual for his own good with zero charisma and this is what the regular voter seeks. Neither is capable of talking in simple words of no more than two syllables. Really the only exception was, is Clinton who, even though one of the most intelligent people in the country can come down to the level of the "man in the street."

I don't know. If Gore can build on his activities during Katrina, if he can develop his own person, his own activities and track record of what he can do, perhaps, maybe.

But as long as people here will continue with a wishful thinking of what could have done in 2000, we will continue to slide.

[Hubert Flottz]

20. I figured everything was my fault!

Maybe you can run and solve everything. I won't vote for you. You play the "Blame Game!"

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

4. I agree

Who are the likely candidates at this point in time?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Breeden From Tennessee...Warner From Virginia...

eom

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

5. I hope Al Gore runs for President to reclaim his rightful seat.

[Southsideirish]

13. President Gore your people need you.

[Burning Water]

14. I don't know.

Al had his chance, and blew it. Maybe he won the election, maybe the Supreme Court handed him the victory. Maybe his legal strategy was wrong, and he should have asked for a full state recount that he could have won. Or maybe Bush would have successfully defended his apparent victory in Florida under any circumstances given the make-up of the Supreme Court.

Whatever the reasons, he failed to cross the finish line and occupy the White House. That's really a shame, but it's done. It's in the past. The Democratic Party must look to the future. "Justice for Al Gore" is a good thought, but is it a winning strategy?? I don't think so, because I don't think the average voter gives a shit about Al Gore the man. If he was the best candidate, that would be something else, but we have more charismatic candidates that I think should be given their chance. That said, if Al runs and wins the nomination, I will certainly give him the same support that I gave him last time, and that I would give to any Democratic candidate.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

15. Veteran, journalist, Statesman, environmentalist, author, professor,

businessman, family man - he is in reality, the Anti-Bush. Every day George W. Bush makes me realize what we have missed because we did not have Al Gore as our President these past eight years.

The good that has come from the Bush administration is inadvertent- that they overplayed their hands and "political capital" and revealed themselves and their party as the incompetent, greedy, criminal, grasping, small-minded, spendthrift, war-mongering, trespassing, sanctimonious, manipulative, lying bunch of hooligans that they are. They can retreat back to their caves and think-tanks and naval-gaze about their failures for the next millennium.

[Burning Water]

21. All very well.

We might have been far better off with Gore as President. But the fact is, he didn't make it, and Bush is what we've got. And despite the cries for impeachment that I hear constantly, my prediction is that he will never be impeached, even if we regain the House, and will certainly never be convicted in a Senate that requires a 2/3 vote to do it. Nope, absent illness or assassination (notice SS, I am not, repeat not, advocating this, just making an extremely hypothetical statement of alternative possibilities), or something, he will be in office till 2008. That's the way the system works.

Gore is old news now, and will be more so in 2008. What's that ancient curse? "May you live in interesting times." Times are certainly interesting during this Bush administration. War, rumors of more war, roller-coaster economy, hurricanes of biblical proportions. Gore is rolling right out of sight. John Kerry is doing much better, IMO, of keeping his name before the public. Although this is just an opinion.

Mrs. Clinton is probably doing the best job of keeping her name before the public. And will probably be the nominee. This has its good points and its bad points. She will certainly bring out the troops, no question. Unfortunately, the right hates her and her husband as much, if not more, than we do Bush. She will bring out their troops too.

And finally, I have heard of no real progress on cleaning up elections. If they can keep it close, and they can, we'll lose again, no matter who we run. What is being done, by the way? Except for Georgia, and a few minor articles about Ohio, I don't even see the subject much at all, anymore.

[question everything]

18. Very well said, and welcome to DU

Will be looking for more well thought posts, Burning Water



:toast: :bounce:

[Burning Water]

19. Thanks for your welcome. n/t

[wellstone dem]

7. How about a blank slate general?

Wes clark brings the same administrative skills as a governor, and also a strong knowledge of national defense.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. I Liked Clark...

I just don't think there are an abundance of "second acts" in politics...


The Dems to the left of him and the wingnuts to the right of him did a good job of sinking his candidacy before it began...


The canard that he flip flopped on the war hurt his candidacy... Most fair folks knew Clark thought the war was a fiasco from its inception....

Oh, and the charge that he became a Dem out of opportunism and convenience hurt too.....

You can count the number of Democratic Generals and Adirals on your hand... They exist like the late Hyman Rickover and Max Taylor but there aren't many of them...


Oh well, the toothpaste is out of the tube and history can't be rewritten...

[Crunchy Frog]

8. I hope a Democratic General runs for President.

Many of the same advantages of a Governor, but has the foreign policy and national security credentials to deal with the mess of an international situation Bush is leaving us in.

[wellstone dem]

9. Great minds.....

:-)

[jedr]

11. Rendell of Pa. will be a name you will hear more of.

[MoonRiver]

12. As long as Repukes count the votes

there will be no more Democratic presidents. So, in a lot of ways, who we run is irrelevant. Sorry to be a pessimist, but that's what I believe. I think there has to be massive rebellion among the rank and file Repubs, who have been manning the voter fraud machine.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. I hope people focus on 2006 before 2008! Republicans Out 2006! 2006.

[Kazak]

23. I hope a former Democratic Veep runs.

;)