Timmeh Russert just suggested Gore for VP...

[PCIntern]

my wife's excited...

well, not that way...

maybe...we'll have to see!

On edit: wasn't referring to whether Gore wants it or not...didn't mean to mislead.

On edit again: I didn't say it was a good idea, I didn't say that it would happen, I didn't say that Obama would do it. I said that Timmeh floated it. That's all.

On edit again: No one gets a joke around here anymore no sensayuma left.

;( ;( ;( ;( ;(

[Czolgosz]

1. It goes without saying that Gore would be the best VP, but he doesn't want the job

[caledesi]

2. I agree! NT

[Honeycombe8]

3. A VP cannot overshadow the Prez. It cannot be. Sorry. nt

[2008]

23. True, and IMO there's a second important reason

Had Gore run in '04 or '08, he could have run a kind of "look what's happened since 2000, the country would have been better under my administration" campaign. But running as VP, having already held the job once before, and having already run as the party's nominee, might make him appear weak, opportunistic, politically under-significant.

(I admire Gore every bit as much as Obama, which is saying a lot given my admiration for Obama. I would have supported another Gore run, and would still enthusiastically support Obama with Gore on the ticket. But Gore as VP, IMO, would be a bad choice.)

[ErinBerin84]

4. yeah, that was funny

he was like "I don't think that it will happen...but at 11:30, I thought, why not just toss his name in there with all of the others?"

[janetblond]

7. ***JIM WEBB** will be Obama's choice for VP

Remember, you heard it here first.
:>)

[ErinBerin84]

10. I wish

I think that if the media is making this big of a deal of "Will Obama be able to get Clinton's women voters?" narrative, they will definitely make a deal of Jim Webb's past "gender issues", and it might make it impossible for Webb to be a real prospect :(

I think the media is also kind of obsessed with the mythical idea of Al Gore..they always talk about when Al Gore with finally "step in" (step in and tell Obama that Clinton will not be a good idea as VP, step in and say that Clinton cannot compare the Florida situation to 2000. I have given up hope that Al Gore will ever really have a role like that in this campaign. Maybe if he had endorsed Obama, but I just don't think he really wants that type of big role in politics again, even though the media is obsessed with the "romance and tragedy" of the 2000 election). They are obsessed with the idea of Hillary and Bill as a political couple, so they just love that it connects back to the theme of whether or not Al Gore felt overshadowed by Hillary in the white house.

[janetblond]

21. The idea of Al Gore as VP doesn't excite me ...

In my book, Gore's made two faux pas ...
1- Selecting the TRAITOROUS Judas Liebermann as his running mate (which reflects poor judgement).
2- Insisting NAFTA was good for Americans and would create "more" jobs.

People are in love with Al Gore because he reinvented himself after jorge shrub stole the election from him. He warned the world about global warming and he won a Nobel Peace Prize.
But I'll never forget #1 and #2 above.

[Lex]

16. No, the Dems won't give up that Senate seat for a VP slot.

nt

[terrya]

5. He won't take it.

He didn't run for President...why would he accept VP?

I think Al Gore doesn't want anything to do with politics anymore.

[janetblond]

6. The Al Gore who picked Judas Liebermann as a running mate?

The same Al Gore who said NAFTA would create more jobs for Americans?
FORGET IT!

[newmajority]

8. It was about the ONLY reasonable name Timmeh mentioned

Not that I think it's going to happen, but it sure beats the Hell out of the usual DLC suspects that these media fools keep throwing up (literally) :puke:

[book_worm]

9. No Gore wouldn't want to be #2 again. Has he even endorsed Obama yet?

[K Gardner]

11. We haven't heard anything from him.. I wonder why..?

[dolo amber]

12. See post 5

[K Gardner]

14. I wouldn't blame him that..

It has to cut him to the core to see what Bush did after he stole Election 2000.

[PCIntern]

13. Wonder wonder wonder wonder...

Who wrote the Book of Love?

Tell me tell me tell me...
etc.

[Samantha]

19. My suspicion -- not a fact - is that he's been operating below the radar

I think it was important to him to remain seemingly neutral. There is no way Gore would condone a Clinton in the White House again. It's also true that Obama is the type of person both Gore and Dean would embrace.

I written a few threads since I have been here pertaining to that Inside the Beltway philosophy of Never Let Them Know What You Are Thinking. Gore is the consummate Inside the Beltway politician. We also saw an overabundance of that very hand in Hillary's maneuvering of recent months. We will never KNOW what Al Gore has been thinking; but knowing the man, it's impossible to think he truly did not care who won the White House this time.

His office announced he would endorse Obama, probably in writing, probably wouldn't make a speech. My gut tells me this is his way of underplaying the preference he had all along and he just doesn't want to try to draw attention to it. He just wants positive results - that's good enough for the man.

Sam

[dansolo]

26. He didn't want a replay of 2004

Gore endorsed Dean, and got a lot of flack for it.

[grasswire]

15. Russert's stupider than I thought, then (eom)

[Lex]

17. That exactly what I said out loud too.

Timmeh acted like he was the first one to think of it.

He and Tweety are so dumb.

[PCIntern]

18. He can't possibly be as stupid as I think he is...n/t

[ruggerson]

20. seconded n/t

[butterfly77]

22. What I am sick of is...

these pundits trying to pick the vp for him and if he picks someone they wouldn't expect they will go crazy talking about how we don't know whoever the person is..especially if he or she is not in their little club...

They are continuing to think of things in the old way, this is a new day and we want change and not the kind they are talking about.

[PCIntern]

25. The Dems can't win with respect to the MSM:

1. They know the guy/gal: then they have all the inside dirt on him/her immediately, including testimonials of former lovers, etc. All that'll be behind all the smirking and bullshit that these media folk spew.

2. They DON'T know the gal/guy (note how I switched the order so no one can accuse me of sexism - at least I don't think so, but here you never know) and they'll postulate how there may be nefarious deeds/people in her/his (!) past and you never know...look at TOM EAGLETON!!!!11

Teah that's the 'ticket'...EAGLETON!!!1 THAT WOULD BE HUGH!!!!111

[tandem5]

24. problem is Al Gore isn't second to anybody