Maybe this sounds crazy...but what if Gore runs because he doesn't care if he Wins?

[KoKo]

If he wins the Nobel Prize then it crowns all the work he's done on the environment. What else is them for him to do except keep going around giving his presentation over and over.

Having achieved so much on his OWN...the Presidency isn't a prize he needs....which might be why he would decide to throw his hat in the ring...or at the very least put his name on some of those ballot initiatives that are going on across the country to Draft Him.

Gore has a quirky sense of humor...very dry and droll. Now that it doesn't matter if he wins the Presidency he might just decide to go for it and see what happens. THE PRESSURE IS OFF! He's achieved a Pinnacle and can still do that work whether he's President (would give him a bigger platform) or if he just stays Al Gore..."Working for the Environment."

:shrug: Maybe it's crazy and wishful thinking...but .....

[Virginia Dare]

1. Nothing wrong with crazy and wishful at this point I guess...n/t

[bullimiami]

2. youre right, its crazy.

[Armstead]

3. Maybe that's what we need...

A candidate who's actually honest because he isn't driven by the blind will to win.

Such a candidate might actually win because of that.

[lojasmo]

4. I'd work like hell for a Gore candidacy. EOM

[smalll]

5. I'm convinced one of the reasons Gore isn't running is because he DOES care to win.

Many polls continue to include Gore in the mix, he tends to get about 15% support, down there on a par with John Edwards. I think he'd consider running if he could enter into the race as the New Inevitable. He doesn't want to fight for it, because he is kind of on a higher plane now, and I don't blame him. If he wins the Nobel Prize, that will only re-enforce his reluctance to get down and dirty again.

[Bobbieo]

6. Isn't Gore making plans to go into a newTV venture pertaining to the environment

Think I read something about this on DU last week.

[KoKo]

15. I missed that one...haven't heard anything about it. With Media Consolidation...it would seem

doubtful...that there's anything beyond Apple and Current TV..but who knows?

[XemaSab]

7. The wu wei...

WU WEI

The Sage is occupied with the unspoken
and acts without effort.
Teaching without verbosity,
producing without possessing,
creating without regard to result,
claiming nothing,
the Sage has nothing to lose.

[Hawkowl]

8. Or...

What is left? I mean what more can he do to shed more light on his beloved enironment? Oscar? Emmy? Best selling book? Nobel?

Maybe running for president is the last thing he can do to catapault the environment to the front of everyone's consciousness. If you view it this way, if Gore is truly a man of integrity, he MUST run. He simply has no choice but to keep fighting to push this issue because no other candidate is doing it. He will feel compelled to run.

I believe he will run because I believe in his integrity.

[KoKo]

13. What you say....it's his integrity...seeing the NEED....thanks for expressing it that way!

:-)'s

[ladjf]

9. I don't think that he would jeopardies the Democrats chances

by such a flippant move.

[MonkeyFunk]

10. Here's my prediction:

Gore will not be awarded the Nobel.
Gore will not run for President.

[SaveElmer]

11. Not a chance in hell...

Unlike some on the left, it is important to Gore that the Democratic Party take back the White House in 2008, and he won't do anything to jeopardize that opportunity.

[Bobbieo]

12. The party will come first for Gore and he will do nothing to

jeopardize its future - so he will not run!!!

[KoKo]

14. But....But...who is the Democratic Party who will take it back? It's all about Money & Strategy ..

so far....

[SaveElmer]

16. Bull...

There is not a Demcorat running who would not be a 1000 times better than the regime in there now...

To imply otherwise is a Naderite deception...

[Samantha]

17. It's not as crazy a thought as the Supreme Court choosing the

president.

I guess that's just another way of saying crazier things have happened?