Gore for Pres?

The Hotline’s Blogometer notes the birth of a Draft Al Gore for 2008 movement among some lefty bloggers.

Ex-VP Gore has ruled out a WH’08 candidacy, but that hasn’t stopped plenty of Dem-leaning bloggers from hoping that he will run. At Huffington Post, Cenk Uygur made it clear enough with the call, “Al Gore for President.”

Also at HuffPo, Arianna Huffington made a stark comparison between Gore and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY): “Gore came out swinging, charging the president with breaking the law ‘repeatedly and insistently.’ He said that Bush had mounted a “direct assault” on the system set up for obtaining warrants for spying, and concluded: ‘A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.’ In the other corner: Hillary. She, too, came out swinging, claiming the Bush administration would ‘go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country.’ One of?!”

Liberal atty Jeralyn Merritt gives “the edge to Gore for another reason”: “Half the country thinks the 2000 election was stolen from him, and they will want to right the wrong that was done to him.” The Left Coaster: “I’d put my money on Gore. He didn’t just get rid of the beard, he also got rid of the mitigating, the qualifying, and the equivocating that plagues sitting senators.”

I think if Gore gets in the race, the Anti-War party is going to find itself even farther out of political power than it is now. As bad as I’d believe that would be for the national political landscape, it’d be a boon for our ability to fight terrorism more effectively.

Why? Because Gore’s ranting about the so-called domestic spying issue will put his administration’s actual domestic spying back on the table. It will be difficult for Gore to explain why a well-vetted and monitored NSA program that targeted communications between terrorist infrastructure inside the US and suspected terrorists outside the country is measurably worse than the omnipresent ECHELON system that was used during his 8 years in office as well as the warrantless surveillances then done on Americans. I’m sure he’ll try, but it’ll be much more difficult for him to hurl the sort of invective he’s known for hurling of late. After all, he can’t make all his campaign speeches at MoveOn.org events.

A Gore candidacy would give us a chance to inject a bit of history into the current “Omigod Bush is reading my emails!” hysteria the MSM has whipped up. That can’t be a bad thing.

No related posts.

Category: Moonbat Nonsense, President George Bush