Interesting post from algore..org

[FourScore]

Watching and waiting . . .
Posted March 18th, 2008 by earthmother

In November of 2007, AlGore.org suspended its active campaign to get Al Gore to be a candidate iin the 2008 race for the White House. At that time, we informed all of our organizers that we were going into a dormant mode. Publicly, we remain dormant, but we are carefully watching the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. As of this writing, Obama is ahead in delegates, but both candidates continue to split the available delegates in such a way that neither may have enough to be nominated on the first ballot at the convention in August. The next (and last) major state as far as delegates go is Pennsylvania. Depending on what happens there in April, we may decide that it's time to swing into action again.

If Clinton and Obama continue to do damage to each other's campaigns, if they continue to split the delegates, if it appears that the Democratic Party will be divided rather than united going into the convention, it may become evident that the party needs someone who can unite the Democrats, and most importantly, someone who can beat John McCain in November. To our way of thinking, the obvious someone is Al Gore.

We're not the only ones entertaining this notion. There continue to be many articles written about Gore as the unity or compromise candidate. Here are a few of the more recent ones:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/al-de-gore_b_90064.html
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062008/news/columnists/only_gore_can_stop_...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/119851
http://www.southernledger.com/blogs/stevegill/?m=200803
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-kitman/al-gore-for-president_b_9033...

While everyone understands that there are major obstacles standing between Al Gore and the nomination, there are various scenarios that, while long shots, could come to pass. We remain realistic about the situation, but we also feel that if there's any chance at all that we can somehow make our dream a reality, we need to try, but anything we would do would have to be ethical, reasonable, and realistic, and at this point, the options for us are few.

So we watch, and we wait. We'll keep you posted . . .

http://www.algore.org/blog

(Sorry if this is a dupe -- I've been out of the loop this week.)

[annabanana]

1. Thanks for posting.

Keep an eye out...

[greyghost]

2. K&R

[orleans]

3. what, pray tell, are those "various long shot" scenarios that "could come to pass"?? n/t

[calimary]

4. Kicking!

Hey, I STILL hold out hope. As long as there IS an Al Gore, I still will be hopeful. Man, I would simply LOVE to see him assume his rightful position in the Oval Office - headquartered at the Resolute Desk where he should have been since January 2001.

[MonkeyFunk]

5. Then he should've run

But just handing him the nomination would be a sure loss in November.

[earth mom]

6. ROFLMAO! Obviously you're kidding.

Al Gore would win in a freaking landslide. :woohoo:

[MonkeyFunk]

9. Not kidding at all

How do you win the presidency starting 9 weeks from the election with no money and no campaign organization?

He'd still be getting phone lines put in while the rest of us are voting.

Then, there'd be millions of Democrats pissed that the entire primary process was discarded. No, Gore is by no means a sure winner.

Had he run, I would've voted for him. But he didn't.

[earth mom]

20. C'mon now. Anyone who was once pro Gore is ALWAYS pro Gore.

Do you realize how many millions voted him into office in 2000?

And how many millions MORE love him now?

[TomBall Democrat]

23. once voted for Al Gore does not equal will vote for him again nt

[earth mom]

24. But it easily could since the offerings this year are so poor. nt

[TomBall Democrat]

25. Your viewpoint, and you're definitely entitled to it -

but I'm quite satisfied with the choice available to me.

[earth mom]

27. Well I hope you enjoy the next War that Obama wants to have in Pakistan. I know I won't.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4598201#4605651

:thumbsdown:

[TomBall Democrat]

28. Never found cause for hope in war nt

[DFW]

7. I really only see one scenario where this might happen

Say the convention is hopelessly deadlocked, or the Clinton and Obama
camps can't stop sniping at each other. In a "life-imitating-art" repeat
of the West Wing convention where the "Matt Santos" character gets up
and gives a knockout speech to convince people that he's the man, Al
Gore might do just that and start a wildfire movement on the floor that
sweeps him into the nomination while the other two are still sniping at
each other.

Al Gore doesn't usually give those kind of speeches (Obama can, as we all
know), and Hillary doesn't either. But if Al Gore is given the podium at
the right moment, under the right circumstances, I could see a spontaneous
surprise jump to him to take the nomination.

However, I give this about a 1% chance of happening. This is not a TV script,
and things never go as we would like. There are no station breaks in real life,
and precious few happy endings. The election of Al Gore in November 2008 would
be my idea of a happy ending, but it has been a long time since I believed in
the Tooth Fairy.

[LWolf]

11. Then that's a 1% chance that

there will be a nominee I can vote for in November. 1% is better than zero, so I'll hold onto that chance as long as it's there.

[DFW]

17. You share my sentiments (and my pessimism, I see). But...

I will be voting Democratic this November, regardless.

To give the country McCain out of spite or in protest is just not in me.

McCain is just Bush Lite with grammar.

[pacalo]

14. Al Gore most certainly can "give one of those speeches". Remember his MoveOn speech?

[DFW]

16. I do

But that was an exception rather than the rule.
His speaking usually isn't that good.

If he could pull one of those off again at the right moment
of a deadlocked convention, then it's President Gore for
real this time. But I still think that is wishful dreaming.

[bluesmail]

19. now that definitely will have them suspend the elections

on some bogus crap!

[ThomWV]

8. Its like the lottery, you can not win if you do not play.

It was his for the asking but he has a cause he thinks he can address better from the outside. He is wrong of course. He will never be President and his Global Warming cause will fail too.

[LWolf]

10. That's the longshot I'm hoping for.

I don't vote until May 20th, but if it's still close, and both are still in contention, on that day, I will vote for whichever candidate is behind, to help keep it that way all the way to the convention.

[malaise]

12. Please, please Run Al Run!!

K & R

[lonestarnot]

13. Hmmmmm.

[mak3cats]

15. K & R - I want the best chance of beating McCain. (n/t)

[Jakes Progress]

18. Yes, I helped elect him once already.

There are other advantages.

It's not so much that he would win, but that he could be a president we could support. Either Hillary or Barack can win, but their supporters have done so much damage and created such ill will, that even if ond is elected, he or she won't have the support that we will need to get things done.

I think keeping Clinton and Obama in the Senate would be a good move. A Gore/Edwards ticket would put us in a good place, and we wouldn't have to replace a Democrat in the Senate.

[comrade snarky]

21. Unlikely I think

Gore could have had it but decided to be a statesman instead, to hold above the fray and work for what he sees as a greater cause. That makes me a bit sad but I can understand and applaud it. For him to take the nomination now would require going to the convention and fighting for it. A real back room battle to wrest away delegates from Obama and Clinton. That would ruin the image Gore has carefully built, there are too many delegates who too believe strongly in the 2 candidates we have now for a speech to sway them. Dropping a third, even a popular third, into the mix of the convention will only further split the vote and tear the party apart.

As it stands now Obama is likely going into the convention with a lead in elected delegates and the popular vote. Who wants to be he one to tell the black community that the first African American to win a race for nomination will be replaced by a white guy who didn't run?

I don't think that fits into the the plans Gore has for his legacy.

<Edited for a badly worded word sentence>

[goforit]

22. Al Gore is awesome, but he left at the climatic time to announce a run.

His momentum has slowed.

Yet joining with Obama could reignite a united front.

[rodbailey]

26. Gore action at DU

If you want to get in on the Gore action, swing on over to the DU/Gore site (Discuss » DU Groups » Democrats » Al Gore '08 Group). There is real action going on here, not just "watching and waiting." Based a bit on past history, the algore.org and draftgore.com national web sites may be watching and waiting for quite a while. Meanwhile, we are trying to mount some action. Come on over!!