April 17, 2006
Gore in 08'!
"If you love your planet, if you love your children, you have to see this film"- From a trailer about a new global warming flick called 'An Inconvenient Truth' starring Al Gore. Hysterical much?
The film "weaves the science of global warming with Al Gore’s personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change."
Ben Smith sees the reaction to the film's trailer on the upper west side of Manhattan as proof that Gore is a plausible alternative to Hillary. I say applause for Gore on the UWS is exactly why Gore is not a plausible alternative to anybody. The things that excite this rabidly leftist crowd would have no such effect on their Democratic counterparts in Iowa, South Carolina or New Hampshire. It would be a dream for Republicans for Democrats to run on Global Warming in '08.
One Republican advantage for 2008 is that Democrats in NY, and other solid blue states, have zero in common with Democrats in most other places. The story of Rick Crawford remains my favorite illustration of this disconnect. A lot can change in 2+ years, no doubt about it, but the Democrats still currently seem to be running on the same anti-Bush platform. It's just not going to be enough, especially seeing as Bush can not run for re-election. Add global warming to the mix and I would be the house on the GOP. Al Gore couldn't win an election as a sitting VP during a healthy economy in peacetime. I just don't see Democrats giving him another chance now that he's moved so decisively toward the left. It would be a total kamikaze move, one that I, obviously, would completely welcome.
Posted by Karol at April 17, 2006 07:56 AM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Election+2008 Al+Gore An+Inconvenient+Truth
I don't know Karol. Gore could be their man. The Democrats are in a kamikaze mood these days. Probably because the big money is kamikaze money.
Posted by: Jake at April 17, 2006 12:45 PM"Al Gore couldn't win an election as a sitting VP during a healthy economy in peacetime."
Nah, the economy had already started a slide into recession.
Posted by: Joe Grossberg at April 17, 2006 01:14 PMI think that Gore has the potential to seriously threaten Hillary; of course, both have the potential to be successful candidates or catastophic failures but I actually think that Gore is the more easily defeated.
Posted by: Dorian Davis at April 17, 2006 09:14 PMAl Gore allowed the bad parts of Clintons presidency to rub off (no pun intended) on him, and little of the good (economy, world opinion), and at the same time GWBush did not suffer the same sort of tarring from his dad's "no new taxes" tenure.
When Gore was VP, that government was less 'green' than Reagan. Fact. There was only effort made towards these issues when they were the outgoing government.
