Dear President Gore: Please run a nearly no-$$$ campaign--after we draft you!

[Peace Patriot]

You've said that you don't want to run--and I can't blame you for that, our presidential campaigns have become such a disgusting, money-grubbing, slush-funding boondoggle for the war profiteering corporate news monopolies to profit from stupid, know-nothing, 30 sec campaign ads, then they ridicule any real ideas, any real discussion, with their know-nothing blather.

But you haven't said you won't serve--if drafted.

So let us draft you. And then let us run the most refreshing political campaign in modern history: a nearly no $$$ campaign...

No TV ads.

No focus groups.

No PR.

No "consultants."

No bullshit.

Just straight talk to the American people.

They know you. You don't need to introduce yourself.

People know that money has ruined our political system. They will love this. And the opposition will be absolutely flummoxed. Nobody has ever tried this, except way back in our history, when we were still a real democracy. We've lost that. We need to recover it. Reality.

If others want to do events, concerts, fine. But you don't do one day of fundraising.

It is an insult that the planet is dying, and people are starving, and $100 million is devoted to a political campaign. To buy power. To control our laws. To get tax breaks. 'Give me $25,000 or you don't have say.' Everyone but the rich are left out.

Enough is enough!

Use whatever free venues are available. People will understand.

A couple of aides. A couple of cell phones. A web site. Some travel money. People can make their own green ribbons and attach them everywhere, as the all-purpose Gore bumper sticker/placard/mailer/ikon.

It doesn't take money. It takes IDEAS. It takes being REAL.

You've had the fun of all the glitz in Hollywood. Congratulations! Now be that guy in the film, that real guy who loves that little stream at his family home. Be that to us. Be the candidate of reality. Be the President of Reality. Take us home with you. Let us draft you. Let us vote for you. Together, we will blow the Bushite electronic voting machines right out of the water!