Gore's Electoral Footprint - AOL's "Stump" (lol)

[rosesaylavee]

http://news.aol.com/elections-blog/2007/07/25/gores-electoral-footprint/

Gore's Electoral Footprint
Posted Jul 25th 2007 10:52AM by Richard Tenorio

If Gore decides to run in 2008, Democratic voters have a counterbalance to their party's most visible current candidates: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards. More than any other candidate, Gore would remind the Democrats that they have "unfinished business" ... a reckoning with the Republicans after the Supreme Court decision Bush v. Gore gave the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000.

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"This here question's for all you candidates," the Volunteer State duo said. "Mainstream media seems awfully interested in old Al Gore these days. Is he losing weight? What's it say in his book? Is he still worried about all the ice? They interpret all these as signs that he may or may not run. They really want to know if Al Gore's going to run again. Yes. Well, what we want to know is does that hurt you-all's feelings?" (Biden said it hurt Tennesseans' feelings.)

Even if Gore does not run, he can relish in establishing an "electoral footprint" on the candidates. For they are sounding increasingly more liberal and less Republican-lite. Their comments reveal this. Clinton said that "we haven't really seriously addressed this incredibly important issue of global warming and energy efficiency."

Edwards told a different questioner that "We need to find fuels that are in fact renewable, clean, and will allow us to address directly the question that has been raised, which is the issue of global warming, which I believe is a crisis." And Obama's proposals ranged from exploring nuclear power to developing solar power to "drastically increasing fuel efficiency standards on cars."

[rosesaylavee]

1. As I have said here before,

none of them rival what Dodd has proposed which is the most progressive of all the candidates. Funny they don't mention his plan?
Link here: http://www.chrisdodd.com/energy_independence

So far, the DEM candidates in the lead are entirely 'milktoast' on the environmental crisis. They are treating it as if its just another issue to have an opinion on. Gore will have to see this eventually and I hope his decision is to run.

[dalaigh lllama]

3. They've got Big Al to answer to if they don't get serious

I thought the opening line of this editorial describing Gore was quite apropos:

"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world/Like a Colossus..." ~Shakespeare

[rosesaylavee]

4. This is becoming one of my favorite political cartoons...

Makes me grin every time I see it!

What a great American he is - and how fortunate we are to have him at this time in our history.

[RestoreGore]

2. That first paragraph is why he won't run

When will those who write these articles realize that it would not be about 2000 to him! That is not the reason he would ever decide to do it again. They make him sound like a bitter man who would only do it for revenge, and it most certainly is a misrepresentation of where his
heart is now... in saving this planet for future generations.

[Mabus]

5. Gore can bring so many people back to the Democratic party

I met a great guy named Alan Rosenblatt who explained it to me thusly: in every election we lose more people on the left end of the voting spectrum than the right end. The "center" used to be more of a moderate viewpoint than it is now. Remember back in the 90's when the McAuliffe-led DNC went for the corporate bucks and a move towards the center? Well that pushed the "center" further right-ward and ended up alienating more voters on the left than on the right. In subsequent elections the "center" has been pushed further and further to the right and we end up with people on the left who stop voting. What we end up with is more voters on the left end of the spectrum who have stopped voting because the "moderate" candidates no longer resonate with them.

Gore swings the pendulum back to the left where there are a lot of voters waiting to be picked up.

[rosesaylavee]

6. Dems and Gore

just make sense. The Democratic Party has become the 'practical' party and the republicans are finally being viewed as the extremists that they are. Finally!