For all the frustrated DUers, please try to remember that Lieberman was Gore's running mate.

[davsand]

Together, they won the popular vote and two SCOTUS votes swept away the will of the majority of a nation.

I vomited in my mouth when Gore chose Lieberman as a running mate, and I raged when the SCOTUS screwed us all. I am still, however, able to flinch at the realization that we almost put Holy Joe one heartbeat away from the Oval Office.

Discuss.



Laura

[saltpoint]

1. On Al's short list that year I was rooting hard for John Kerry.

[Mojambo]

5. His shortlist was Lieberman, Edwards and Kerry, right?

Interesting paths those three have traveled since 2000...

[saltpoint]

9. Not sure who else might have been on it but I thought Lieberman was

the least likely pick, and it turned out to be Lieberman.

Damn it all.

[davsand]

10. I will always wonder how many votes Lieberman cost Gore in that election.

I seriously saw him as a detriment to the ticket even then.


Laura

[Nay]

13. Oh, agreed. I was aghast when he picked that jerk. I have no doubt

it cost him votes.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. That Was When Gore Was DLC

I remember this fabulous bumper sticker from the campaign: "Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)"

[Ken Burch]

3. It is frightening.

Can that please be the last time we run a "Fuck the Left" ticket?

[leftstreet]

4. Wound. Salt. Apply. n/t

[Deja Q]

6. That was 8 years ago. 8 years before 2000,

Al Gore was discussing what George W Bush was in 2003.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJTzKPBQZ94

In the end, it's all politics. Plenty of spin to be found everywhere. What was different between 1992 and 2003...

It's all politics.

[Jamastiene]

7. Actually, I was trying to forget.

:puke:

[Ozymanithrax]

8. At the time, Joe was still considered something of a liberal...

Gore took him because he wanted to put Clintons zipper problems behind him. Al Gore ran as fast as he could from Bill Clinton and ran a lackluster campaign. He still managed to win the popular vote, and only lost because of more that 2 votes in the SCOTUS. Republican aids rioted and damaged public property to stop the recount.

[laughingliberal]

11. Absolutely accurate! The sum total of the reason Gore picked Lieberman was

Lieberman's denunciation of Clinton's sexual behavior. It was a disappointing choice for me at the time. I felt Kerry or Edwards, either one, would have been a good choice. I have always loved Al Gore. Campaigned for his nomination in 1988, was upset he did not run in '92. In 2000 it felt like I had been waiting to see President Gore my whole life. I still consider him to be one of the most qualified people who ever ran for the office. Okay, that was a detour but it still haunts me how different our lives could be had SCOTUS not coronated Bush with their indefensible ruling.

[appal_jack]

12. He (LIEb.) sucked then too n/t

[HopeHoops]

14. What the FUCK was he thinking?

:shrug:

[Owl]

17. +1

[WI_DEM]

15. It all had to do with distancing himself from Clinton.

He saw Lieberman as the squeeky clean anti-Clinton and put him on the ticket because Lieberman had been one of Clinton's strongest critics during the Monica L affair (even though he didn't vote for removal from office).

[undeterred]

16. How does that make me less frustrated.

Its fucking scary.

[pissedoff01]

18. Probably the worst decision Al Gore ever made

which is why he never commented on it.