John Derbyshire, a favorite writer of mine who straddles cantankerousness and gentlemanliness brilliantly, has been saying it for months. Anyone who’s ever seen a certain film has wondered about it. Now it’s getting traction in the “mainstream media.”
Gore 2008.
Is that really a possibility?
Consider:
Jeremiah Wright, evidently a fine man except for those unfortunate moments when he gets to spewing anti-American hate, has turned out to be the first something to stick to Barack Obama. Hillary’s latest is not remembering whether she dodged sniper fire or calmly listened to an eight-year-old’s poetry after landing in Bosnia. She “misspoke” because she says “millions of words” every day.
Man, that is a rocking shitload of words.
So what of it? Obama can’t quit. Why should he? He’s ahead, though perhaps slightly damaged by the Rev. Wright business. Plus, he’s audaciously hopeful.
I think if Hillary were going to fold her tent and fight another day, she’d have done it by now. I mean, with Florida officially out of play and Michigan on life support…
So she’s going to snipe for three more months, at least. Obama will have to snipe back. Gore rides in, being his 2006 movie star self instead of his 2000 “my own man” self, and takes it, decisively.
I’ve commented several times on the high quality of the political theater this time around. Gore’s summer entrance would send it past the Kuiper belt.
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I can never hear Mr. Gore mentioned without (in my head) hearing Rush LImbaugh calling him “Algor,” as in “Igor” the mad scientist’s droog.
That doesn’t mean I accept anything Mr. Dimbaugh says as worth listening to, because I really don’t. I suppose if I were more “forgiving” (remember my forgiveness post?), I’d remember that Mr. Dimbaugh is in a drug-induced haze and can hardly be held to account for his ravings.
As for whether Mr. Gore should be a presidential candidate, I guess it’s okay with me.