Alert: Gore did not rule out a 2008 run!

[Jackson4Gore]

Guys, please do not read into the media spin today about what he said. He said the same thing he has said since 2002:

"I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again."

"I don't completely rule out some future interest, but I don't expect to have that."

"The word that's normally used to rule stuff out is "never." --The Hotline

Again, he is not ruling out a run, just saying he doesn't expect to. This needs to be clear. Hillary Clinton has said she doesn't expect to be a candidate for President either. It is all poli-speak.

Don't get down by this, because like I said, he has said this now for 3 years.

Our site has been around for three years and will still be around promoting Al and pushing him to run for President. We urge you to join us: http://algore2008.net/

But again, don't believe the media spin.

[otohara]

1. Crossing My Fingers

he decides to run.

[dolstein]

2. "don't believe the media spin" -- WHAT media spin???

Al Gore -- IN HIS OWN WORDS -- says he doesn't has any plans to run and doesn't expect to run. Could he have been more emphatic? Sure. But that doesn't change what he said. And no rational person would interpret what Gore said as signaling any desire whatsoever to throw his hat into the ring.

I supposed that for most DU'ers, the next best thing to working for a candidate who has zero chance of winning (like Dennis Kucinich) is to work for a candidate who isn't even going to run. It never ceases to amaze me just how far DU'ers are willing to go to avoid making the kind of messy choices involved in actually seeking to GOVERN this country.

[SnowGoose]

3. Those of us who want to see this happen

should consider a letter writing campaign - he might be swayed by seeing letter after letter from the rank and file.

[bowens43]

4. He's much too intelligent to

to run again. He lost to bush. If he can't beat a cartoon cowboy candidate, he certainly can't beat a real candidate and he knows it. He's a great man, an intelligent man but he's a horrible campaigner and cares too much about our party and our country to risk it. Gore won't run.

[drummo]

5. Gore did not lose to Bush. Bush stole the presidency.

If your car is stolen from you then obviously you are a horrible owner, right?

It wasn't even close. Tens of thousands of Gore voters didn't get a chance to vote or get their votes counted.

Bush ran a horrible campaign. That's why he lost despite having all the advantages. He was a governor, he was stupid (don't fool yourself, redneck like stupid president, think about Raygun), he had twice as much money as Gore had, he had a friendly media and he had an impeached and immoral president and a boom lasting for so long few gave credit to the government for it anymore.

The "Gore is a horrible campaigner" story is media invention. You are repeating their talking point. Someone cannot spend 24 years in elected office if he is a horrible campaigner, all right? Someone cannot win every county in his state in a year when the Rep presidential candidate wins by a landslide if he is a horrible campaigner. And quite frankly someone would not be picked by Bill Clinton, of all people, as his running mate if he is a horrible campaigner.

And you cannot come back from death (20 point behind Bush at the beginning of the campaign) as Gore did if you are a horrible campaigner.

Moreover you can't read Gore's mind or what he wants or what he will want 1-2 years from now. You can only take what he said.
And he did not say that "I will not run". The fact that he doesn't have plans says nothing. Have you heard Hillary say that she has plans to run for president? Noone could commit him or herself now, 3 years before the next election.