Why is this forum so dead?

[crispini]

Has all the Al Gore action moved out to the general forums? 'Cause we could start talking in here about what we're REALLY going to do to get this party started! C'mon, people, we have about four or five months to change this man's mind and get him to RUN! What are we gonna do here?! :bounce:

[Admiral Loinpresser]

1. True that the Gore posting is fast and furious "out there."

Seems like this is DU's best kept secret, but I expect that will change. I've been so busy I haven't checked it in about a week.

[SharonRB]

2. You're right, Crispi

I went to an organizing meeting last night. Not sure what I'm getting myself into, but I'll see where it goes. The guy running the meeting said he'd be very surprised if Al doesn't run. He went through his "Inconvenient Truth" training and met both him and Tipper and said there were many small hints that he would run.

He made a good point that it wouldn't make sense for him to announce before the Oscars. We'll see what happens between then and the end of the summer, I think.

[Jeanette in FL]

3. I only found out about this forum at the Protest this weekend

Evlbstrd told me about it when we were talking about Gore at the Protest in DC. I glad I found out about it.

There is no doubt in my mind that Al Gore will run and will win again.

He is the only person I feel that can bring this country back to sanity.

Good to be here.

[SharonRB]

5. Hi, Jeanette!

:hi:

I knew I liked you as soon as I met you -- we're certainly of like mind when it comes to Al. The more I hear, the more sure I am he'll run.

[Jeanette in FL]

7. Hi, Sharon

Oh yes, we are certainly of like mind when it comes to Al.

Isn't funny when you meet people, it can seem as though you have known them all your life. I felt like that when I met many of you on Saturday in DC.

I just keep telling people when they ask me who I want for the Democratic candidate, I say Al Gore. They say I didn't know he was running, I tell them "He hasn't announced it yet". I am going to keep putting that out there.

:hi:

[Samantha]

4. It's dead because no one comes here

People prefer to discuss Gore on very active forums, such as General Discussion, where observations will get more responses. Most of the threads started here received zero responses when this forum opened. Now not too many people bother starting threads here. It's a waste of time. Sad but true, and I do speak from experience. Hopefully, that will change when Al throws his hat into the ring.

I came to this site in 2001 as a diehard Gore supporter and I remain so today. He's my only choice for 2008. Perhaps I should say he's our only hope ....

[divineorder]

6. Not A Lot of People Know About This Forum

But I have an idea. This forum could be used for extended discussions about Gore and his projects and for organizing.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

8. Check out AlGore.org (AGO)

Better yet, contact contact Karen Wunderman: [e-mail] or me, Steve Robinson, at [e-mail]

Our Meetup initiative is doing pretty well:

http://www.meetup.com/topics/polact/cand/

Karen can help you start a Meetup group with help from AGO. Plenty of other ways to get involved as well.

"If we build it, he will come."

[PATRICK]

9. I thought that Gore had better jump in

But I believe there is ample time and an advantage there in not doing so. The trick here is that the changes in the rapid primary system might make a "stop Hillary" movement as impossible as waiting for her to fade in the primaries. By the time her mighty machine crumbles- if it does- it will be too late for anyone to jump in. Then the awkward impossibility of a brokered convention. Some bruised and insufficient front runner like Hillary might garner the delegate totals in a "victory" to rival Dukakis for its Pyrrhic glory.

So, and I don't know enough to say, Gore has to say whether he will short-circuit this condensed drama and
enter the field in a few months, and what contenders he might hurt that would give Hillary more an undeserved chance. This cannot be easy. As a candidate and policy wise as she will likely govern, Hillary is the worst choice and most likely one to ruin opportunities. Very likely the voters, nervous about the solid Kerry choice last time will be repelled from her and attracted to charisma and electoral broad appeal. No matter what the momentum of the press and polls seem to indicate otherwise. But money can bury charisma, render it hoarse and unnoticed as much as Kucinich's pure impassioned defense of truth and the future. And they are linked against the imminent threat to the future of the Roadkill Way of a mortally wounded world and world democracy. A Gore candidacy should open up a money shriveling process and even the playing field for debate.

There are only a few candidates the people will eventually want. They want Gore now, with least reservations. They might turn to Edwards and Obama. Clark may yet take fire and I have never understood exactly what his negatives electorally really are. They might find themselves steamrolled into Hillary, but it will be shallow, everything compromised, all her negatives intact to give comfort to the illegitimates among the GOP, and fear among the twice stung Dems. She is no John Kerry and enough said there.