Gore to become a cult figure?

[madmunchie]

And to grow in popularity as well as stature because of his global warming movie and his barnstorming.

Comments similar to that were made yesterday on one of the talk shows. A cult figure? Not a stretch of the imagination by any means. Gore is the best thing that we have going right now. I hope that somehow, someway he does re emerge with such a force that the only thing that could equal it would be a Tsunami. He is the exactly right person to put this administration where it belongs..at least rip it to shreds and maybe even have them all thrown in some prison, maybe Abu Garib if it is still open, or maybe Guantonomo..

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. Yeah, with his environmental knowledge . . .

. . . I think he's the right one.

If the Clintons would back him and work for him, he could do it.

Doesn't seem likely, though.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Al is the man!

I'd vote for him in a heartbeat!

[madokie]

9. yea, in an okie heartbeat

[xultar]

3. I have an issue with Al. Where was all of this vigor in 2000. Is this

the real Al or was 2000 the real Al?

[Brazenly Liberal]

8. That bugs me, too.

Why did he wait until after the election was over to show us what a firebrand he can be? I mean, he was well aware of his image as a stiff - he even made fun of it. I just figured at the time he didn't have it in him to raise the roof. Now that it's obvious he can, I want to know why he didn't.

[madmunchie]

13. I think that Al Gore has found his voice. I believe that after the

horrible injustice of 2000, the man plunged into deep turmoil, depression...something and re-emerged. I believe that the guy who played just by the "political rules" died and the man who speaks from his soul was born. Plain and simple. It really isn't too hard to understand when you think of what the election in 2000 must have done to him. Really, it would make a heart stopping movie. The man that played by the Washington rules and got royally screwed in 2000, the turmoil and the depths of despair of a man who tried to do right and when trying to do right he felt constrained and had to always be on his toes. When all hell broke loose and this man re emerges, he no longer feels those constraints, but detests much of what those constraints stand for. He speaks from his heart and his soul, and in doing that emerges greater and the voice of the people.

Sounds a bit dramatic I suppose, but I really believe that Gore has gone through a metamorphosis (?) and in listening and being open we will be the better for it.

[NYCGirl]

18. This may answer your question:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/06/29/gore-retreat.htm

[Canuckistanian]

4. I don't want him to be a cult figure

I want him to be a mainstream-supported hero figure.

[Stephanie]

5. I heard it too - I posted at the time

I think it was the Newsweek guy but I forget whcih show - it was eithet Tweety or McLaughlin Group.

Bring it on! I can't wait!!!

[Dunvegan]

6. Al's not the culty type. * is propped up with a "Cult of Personality"...

...like a Stalinist.

[Lisa]

10. agreed ...

I think he's the kind of person who takes his work very seriously, but is a bit embarrassed if people treat him like a "celebrity".

Bush, on the other hand, pretends to be "an average guy", but adores adulation (he surrounds himself with people who won't challenge him -- certain Supreme Court nominees, for example). And he sure grew to expect special treatment, pretty quickly! (Those who really are humble and shy never get used to it.)

[marylanddem]

7. I do love Al & he gives a dynamite speech BUT

his judgement in running mates sucks. Has he ever acknowledged that???

[Dunvegan]

12. I think he knows that Joe has gone away from Gore's ideas.

Gore was looking for diversity, and a veep with impecable marital and religious background to counter the viral (and I remember how ugly it was...swiftboat ugly) anti-Clinton "morals" backlash.

Gore has nothing to worry about, as far as I can see, as being a happily married, sex scandal-free, morally upright and admirable humanist-oriented Christian...much like the founding fathers' brand of philosophy.

He's a Federalist, and that's a big factor in winning my esteem.

[July]

11. That idea HAS to come from Rove.

SOP for him -- take their own weaknesses and assign them to the opposition, or take the opposition's strengths and assign them to themselves. Watch for "pundits" to be querying disingenuously, if this could be true.

[lectrobyte]

14. Sorry, it is difficult to imagine someone who has been VP of the US

as a cult figure.

[madmunchie]

15. Why not? His story is what urban legends are made up of.

Who else can say that they won the Presidency by verified popoular vote and elctoral vote only to have the elctoral vote stolen? Do you even need one hand to count the others? With that to start, why wouldn't Gore fit that? The underdog? The misunderstood? The screwed?

[lectrobyte]

17. A good point, but I still have trouble imagining him as a cult

figure. Maybe in a Buckminster Fuller way or something.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

16. Where do I sign up?

Do we get matching t-shirts?

Can we stand in airports, ring bells and hand out flowers? please? :bounce: