Gore - Feingold 08 - would it unite the left? :D

[DanCa]

Seriously would this ticket unite us or no?

[laruemtt]

1. i'd go for it!

happily :bounce:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. The left, yes. The "moderates" would squeal.

[hogwyld]

26. Let them squeal!

How many times have we been force fed the moderate "electable" person, only to have elections turn out poorly. We need to go back to who we really are, and say "Damn the Torpedoes" and nominate people who actually represent our deepest beliefs, and not some repug light. Just my .02

[Dawgs]

3. I'm not sold on Gore.

I'd rather have Feingold/Clark.

[madrchsod]

9. feingold/clark or edwards

if favor because both edwards and his dad actually worked in a textile mill

[ladjf]

17. That would also work.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

4. Dream ticket

I'm there. Who do I pay?

[FrannyD]

14. Writing a check now

Heard a guy from the nation bring up this ticket on washington journal the other day. My heart skipped a beat. Our only hope as far as I'm concerned.

[BrainRants]

5. Where do I send my check?

I think Gore would be the ultimate "sleeper" candidate. While the media yappers try to create popular conventional wisdom around Hillary, let Hillary keep stringing them along then BAM, it's Al!

[1932]

6. Psst. Gore doesn't unite the left. Read Arthur Levitt's book.

It describes how Gore's VP pick stood with the accounting industry against every progressive measure Levitt supported as SEC chairman.

Read Joe Stieglitz book on his time in the Clinton adminstration. It describes how Gore wrote the Telecoms bill and gave the neoliberal US Treasury Dept (and Larry Summers and Robert Rubin) everything they wanted and gave progressives nothing that they wanted to protect consumers (and now Gore's in the cable TV business!!!).

Gore's foreign policy advisor was Douglas Feith, who is not a progressive when it comes to foreign policy.

Gore ran in 2000 on lower taxes and smaller government.

I appreciate that Gore has made himself an environmental crusader. However, he has been doing this over the course of many years during which he has also been a great friend to wealthy and powerful interests.

If you want a progressive, we can do much better than Gore.

[bryant69]

11. What if we want somebody who can win?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[1932]

12. don't run someone who didn't get sworn-in after getting most votes

in 2000.

[ihaveaquestion]

7. How about Feingold - Conyers ?

Since Gore lost I think some might see him, rightly or wrongly, as a loser - just sayin'.

[ladjf]

19. That's also two of our best.

[shance]

8. The "left" my foot. It would unite America.

They use the "left", "right" and "moderate" to separate, exclude and divide.

I believe anyone with the slightest common sense would see Gore and Feingold an oasis of good leadership against those who are intentionally bankrupting our nation.

[ladjf]

20. I like the way you think. go for it.

[mattclearing]

10. Nope.

A solid, if small, block of the left will never support a Democrat.

[Sparkman]

24. Gore/Fiengold will be fine for most of us on the left of most DUer's.

[mattclearing]

25. Of course it would, but "unite" is a strong word.

Like I said, the radicals and Greens will never go for it.

[glaeken777]

13. i believe so

I've seen a lot of Feingold 08 posts lately. I'm not knocking DU here, but we tend to have torrid and fickle love affairs with politicians. Kind of a "flavor of the month" mentality.

Anyway, all the time I'm seeing these Feingold 08 posts, I'm thinking of Gore's name in front. It makes perfect sense to me. Gore is widely viewed as someone who was cheated out of a win, he has recently expressed openness to another run, and his name is far more recognizable than Feingold's... hate to say it, but people with a dim awareness of politics **might** recognize him as a leader in CFR.

Gore/Feingold has a certain ring to it.

[ladjf]

22. It has a certain wonderful "peel of bells" to it. What a dream

ticket.

[JNelson6563]

15. I love it!

Here they are with a bunch of kids:



President Gore:



Senator Spine-gold:

[ladjf]

16. A dream ticket. Go with it. I would be willing to devote full time

to helping that ticket to victory. We should make up our minds early on Gore and Feingold and go after the win.

[Talismom]

18. I don't know if it would, but for me it would be heaven and I'd

work like hell to make it happen!

[Taverner]

21. Edwards if he plays his cards right

He has:

- the optimism to attract the paycheck dads and paycheck moms
- idealism to attract the left
- Southern roots to attract the south
- likeability to attract the surface voters

My only beef was his stance on the IWR...still burns me...

[mattclearing]

27. He apologized for it. n/t

[ronnykmarshall]

23. I'll re-post this from another thread.

Picture it!

Washington DC, Jan 20th 2009.

President-Elect Al Gore takes the oath of office. Following the oath, President Gore turns to now Former-President George W. Bush and says "I think you're done here, now get your dumb ass back to Texas. Vice-President Feingold and I have work to do and don't need you in the way."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. Even better. "Get your dumb ass back to Texas and wait for the subpoesa"

[Greybnk48]

29. works for me!! n/t