I just read where Kuchinich is going to run and Gore

[az chela]

is thinking seriously about it.
The perfect team Gore/Kuchinch

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. Gore Thinking Seriously About It?

WHERE DID YOU READ THIS?

Gore has NEVER said that he is considering it at all. He may very well be, but he has NOT said it publicly.

Please tell me where you read this, or if you're just talking about people posting their wishes here at DU. Lot of speculation, but Mr. Gore has been definitive thus far that he has "no plans" to run.

[maddezmom]

7. no plans, but not ruling it out...lots of wiggle room but nothing definitive

:hi:

"I am not planning to run for president again," Gore said last week, arguing that his focus is raising public awareness about global warming and its dire effects. Then, he added: "I haven't completely ruled it out."

Those words make Gore the 800-pound non-candidate of the Democratic field. The possibility of another presidential bid delights many Democrats still steamed over the disputed 2000 election, in which they argue a few more votes, a state other than Florida and a different Supreme Court could have put Gore, not George W. Bush, in the White House.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/sns-ap-gore-2008,1,2174049.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Former Vice President Al Gore, the 2000 Democratic nominee, has a book due out from Penguin Press in May 2007, "The Assault on Reason," which contains a less-than-flattering assessment of the Bush administration. About 236,000 copies of Gore's global-warming tome, "An Inconvenient Truth," have been sold, and his documentary by the same name is in the running for an Oscar nomination.

Gore has said he has no plans to run in 2008, but he has been careful not to rule out the possibility.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/12/america/NA_POL_US_Presidential_Politics_Books.php

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

8. Thanks!

I wasn't aware of his quote "I haven't completely ruled it out."

To my knowledge, that's the first time he's ever said something like this. All previous quotes have been the standard, "no plans to run" quote.

I'd say this all but indicates what his real intentions are.

[brazos121200]

2. I would like to see Al Gore run again. After all,

he won against the Rove spin machine once, he can do it again. As for Dennis Kuchinich, I like to think of him as the conscience of the Democratic Party.

[INdemo]

3. Al Gore said just last week he would not run,

he had two many irons in the fire and wasn't interested.

[NYCGirl]

5. Gore said this in an article published yesterday:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061211/ap_on_el_pr/gore2008

"I am not planning to run for president again," Gore said last week, arguing that his focus is raising public awareness about global warming and its dire effects. Then, he added: "I haven't completely ruled it out."

[INdemo]

6. It sounds as if he is keeping his options open...

[MrCoffee]

9. "not planning to run" = no staff (yet)

i won't be terribly surprised if he announces.

[madokie]

15. baring some catastrophe Big Al is our next President

If my roots weren't southern Baptist I would put money on it
hell we can't even have sex in the shower cause someone might see us and think we were dancing, fer crying out loud.

[waiting for hope]

4. Is this it?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2716964&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

"I am not planning to run for president again," Gore said last week, arguing that his focus is raising public awareness about global warming and its dire effects. Then, he added: "I haven't completely ruled it out."

[cascadiance]

14. I personally think he's being cagey...

When he ran in 2000, he started off being the darling of the DLC and selected DLC favorite Lieberman as his running mate. As the campaign went on, Gore became more populist oriented to gather more votes, and this upset the DLC at the time.

I think this time around, Gore knows that he won't get any help at all from the DLC, and might actually have to fight their "tricks" much like Howard Dean did last election, even if he's perhaps the most popular selection that we could have.

I'm sure he's trying to make sure that before he runs, he has enough heavies like the DNC and Howard Dean and other benefactors on the other side so that he doesn't get "squashed" by some DLC game like Dean did with "the scream". I still wonder if some DLC droids messed with the sound system to make it so that he had to yell for those in the crowd around him could hear him, setting himself up for that way he was characterized then.

Gore doesn't want to repeat that. So he's going to pick his entry into the race carefully so as not to get railroaded. You see the race now. It is a cornucopia of DLC entities with the exception of Kucinich now (Biden, Hillary, Vilsack, and even Obama). They're trying to see which one will stick, but probably every one of them knows that their agenda, should they get elected will be to see to it that campaign public financing DOES NOT pass!

That's why I think when we keep getting hammered on whether we'll vote for Hillary or Obama in 2008, we need to hammer back, "WE DON'T KNOW! WE DON'T HAVE ALL OF OUR OPTIONS ON THE TABLE YET AND WE DON'T LIKE PEOPLE 'MARKETING' OUR CHOICE NOW! WE WANT TO MEASURE WHAT THEY DO THE NEXT TWO YEARS, NOT WHAT THEY'RE BEING MARKETED AS!"

Personally I'm hoping for either Gore/Feingold, Gore/Kucinich, or Gore/Clark. Hopefully a combination WITHOUT any DLC added to it!

[smoogatz]

10. Gore/Obama--unbeatable.

Gore/Clark, second best but I'll take it. Gore/Kucinich? Why?

[Chulanowa]

11. I'd take Gore / Head of lettuce

Maybe is we ask Al pretty please with cherries on top...

[xultar]

13. True.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. LOL!

me too!

[WiseButAngrySara]

12. YES! ....n/t

[OzarkDem]

16. Go Gore!

I hope he announces or gets drafted to run.