My dream...

[adnelson60087]

OK, you guys have read my nightmare scenario (which seems to be happening), now here is my dream to somehow salvage the coming election. I know its far-fetched, but damnation, what else do I have to cling to? So here goes...

1. Hillary and Obama are splitting the votes about 45-40 with our man Edwards picking up the SaraCat and Others' stray delegates, including some Superdelegates along the way.

2. Going to the convention, polls are showing that both Hillary and Obama are losing in tight electoral races with McCain/Huckabee. All-out bedlam occurs at the Convention this summer and no single group can get the majority.

3. Al Gore, YES I SAID IT...., Al Gore finally gets his shit together and realizes that we need to win this election and takes his bid to the floor, throwing his hat in the ring. Obama, realizing he cannot win on his own and realizing the potential peril in losing in November, makes a deal with Gore to transfer all his delegates. Many superdelegates realize the same thing, and throw their support to Gore. Clinton and company are going insane, watching their chances slipping away, as Edwards comes in and puts Gore's Delegate count OVER THE TOP.

4. We get a Gore/Obama ticket with John Edwards potentially serving as Attorney General and Hillary still in the Senate.

I know this will likely never happen, but damn, I can dream and HOPE!!! I'd prefer to see Edwards as Veep, but Obama will have the lion's share of delegates. Anyone else wanna dream???

[saracat]

1. Not too shabby but I would still like John at the top of the ticket. It is after all a "dream".

Maybe Gore could endorse John and transfer those Delegates?

[adnelson60087]

2. That would be supercool...Damn, we need a Savior here...if not Gore,

Then who? And How?? I'd love for John to get back into this thing...

[ClericJohnPreston]

3. I said that

when I first arrived at DU and was slammed for saying a dead-locked convention could bring Gore back.

I still stand by that assertion. Your dream, could become a reality.

[Andrea]

4. I've been saying the same thing

Very few people get it, but it's true. Just because we haven't had a brokered convention in decades doesn't mean it can't happen again. It drives me crazy to see these talking heads say, "The time of brokered conventions is long past." That's just nonsensical. The rules are still in place that lead to a brokered convention if the right circumstances exist - i.e. a deadlocked convention. If that happens, someone has to come in and be a consensus choice, a unity nominee. I think Gore is the obvious choice. Though, with the way things have gone, if Gore didn't make himself available, it could be JRE. Personally, I'd love a deadlocked convention leading to a Gore-Edwards ticket. JRE could wait eight years to be President. In the meantime, having been a strong VP himself and being faced with a mess of gargantuan proportions to clean up, Gore will certainly give Edwards plenty of power and authority. And these are two politicians that understand what is wrong with our fundamental structure that has led to the raping of the constitution. There is no better team to restore it. My theory, my dream.

[Two Americas]

5. you, that is who

And Rocky, and bobbolink, and saracat, and all of the other great people right here.

I am serious. If we have each other, who needs a savior?

[adnelson60087]

6. We need some help though TwoAmericas...

the spirits are strong, but the flesh needs a LOT of help here from a Power that transcends DU and all Dems...that's Gore. Still, I appreciate and love your spirit! Rock on!!

[Two Americas]

7. maybe

I was being glib. We should give this some thought.

If I didn't have direct first hand experience of something different than how people approach politics now, I nwouldnlt have said what I did. But I was there, in the labor movement, in the civil rights movement, in the anti-Viet Nam war movement, when a couple of dozen people - just nobodies - would meet in a basement or a meeting hall, start an organization, and make it happen. There was no waiting around for some celebrity to show up and be a leader and tell us what to do. AFTER we organized the march, or the strike, or other action and had promoted it and recruited people and made it happen, THEN some celebrity politician or leader would show up. Often that was a mixed blessing.