cavuto/fox just said Gore will endorse Dean?

[bearfartinthewoods]

i just walked into the room and thought i heard this?

[ecstatic]

1. Yep. CNN just reported it as well nt

GO DEAN!!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. The freepers think so too

just saw it there. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1036452/posts

[Hep]

39. So this is where you get your news?

LOL. Just messing with you.

[Jackhammer Jesus]

3. They just said it on Crossfire as well.

Apparently Gore's going to endorse Dean later today.

[Beetwasher]

4. This Should Wrap it Up For Dean

It may be early, but w/ him already having the momentum....I could be wrong, but I think this'll do it....

[janx]

7. It'll do it. Because it essentially makes Dean a kind of Gore

extension! Dean's the guy Gore believes in!

It makes me like and respect Gore so much more, too, because he's seen the power of democracy and grass roots, and he endorses it! He wants the decision left to the people!

[seaglass]

19. If he wanted to leave the decision to the people he

should have waited until at least after NH and Iowa, when real people cast votes. I'm extremely disappointed that he would do this before the primaries. Lost a lot of respect for him.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

29. Exactly. If true this is so premature as to be a bit of a turn off

it's not like Dean needed a boost in the polls or anything.

[bearfartinthewoods]

36. agreed...the secret primary is now the only primary

who ever has the most money wins...it's pretty simple now.

i'm going to take that 2000 we have been saving to give to our nominee and and put it to a new car, that's ten percent of our income and it was hard to save that much. we only decided to do it because we thought if a dem won this time we would actually get campaign finance reform and it would be the last time electoral success would be this dependent on money.

if Dean is nominated it will only re-enforce the rule that the primaries are no longer about positions or policy or even personality but about the money.

[bowens43]

49. huh?

How do you figure that? That makes absolutely NO sense. Dean is a much stronger candidate then any of the others. He is a strong candidate BECAUSE of positions and policies. Sounds like sour grapes to me.

[bearfartinthewoods]

58. i want a competative primary

i want it to be about more than who can raise the most money.

if you think Dean's money machine isn't what this is about you may want to reconsider. and yes my grapes are sour because i think Gore lost because he didn't have a really competative primary. mistakes that should have been ironed out then surfaced in the general.

so..yes...sour grapes to Al Gore for setting up the same situation this time as last.

[Code_Name_D]

67. Gore should just shut up. /sarcasem

He has no right to indorece Dean. So he should just crawl back into his whole and cry himself to sleep. /sarcasem

Yep, this is going to take some of the fight out of the anti-Dean camp for sure.

[madrchsod]

5. i think so

better check the next thousand posts about it.

[Melinda]

6. I'm blubbering all over my keyboard.

I can't stop crying... I am so proud of President Gore and my candidate, Dr. Dean... Best wishes to all our candidates, and may we all come together as one to TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!!

[slinkerwink]

10. I"M YELLING in GLEE!!!!!!!!

This is the best christmas present I could ever want!

[Padraig18]

8. Oh my God! Thank you, President Gore!

:thumbsup:

[slinkerwink]

14. my heart literally stopped.....

[Padraig18]

20. Tony said my jaw literally dropped...

:)

[mndemocrat_29]

9. This is huge

Congrats have to go out to Dean!

[Patriot_Spear]

11. WOOOOOOOHHHHHHHOOOOOOO!

Yes!

[Walt Starr]

12. If it happens, I'm back in the Dean camp.

There can be no more important endorsement in my mind than the endorsement from President Gore.

[Terwilliger]

16. Then tomorrow it will be back to Moseley-Braun

:D

[Walt Starr]

18. I don't think so. If President Gore really endorses Dean

then I'm pretty much set.

[Hep]

40. We've been setting a plate for you

at our table! Prodigal son, return!

[Walt Starr]

41. It's official, President Gore will be endorsing Dean

I am 100% behind Dean and will remain there so long as President Gore does too.

[slinkerwink]

47. thank you! welcome to the Dean campaign!

:hi:

[KoKo]

68. Whoa.....Terwilliger......isn't that kind of an "Over-Reaction?"

:shrug:

[slinkerwink]

17. it IS going to happen tonight------it's going to be televised on

the Dean blog! :hi:

[Patriot_Spear]

28. Cements our pick 11 months before the election...

This is VERY bad news for smirk Co.

New money flowing to Dean- no more squabling- unified voices against Bush*

WWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOO!

[Zynx]

13. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard this.

This is big. Very big.

[slinkerwink]

22. it IS BIG!!!!!!!!!!

:party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce::party: :bounce:

[Zynx]

31. Yep. It is about that big.

Perhaps larger. We might just as well call him Democratic Nominee Dean now. :)

[Terwilliger]

15. This is a real vindication

Her's Al Gore, the DLC/centrists candidate choice in 2000, who's now (not only not endorsing the DLC candidate in Lieberman) endorsing the anti-DLC candidate in Dean. So the man flying the party banner in 2000 selecting the choice that would have been against him in 2000.

NOW will you people stop blaming Nader?

[Hep]

44. NO!

Gore's enforsement doesn't change Deans platform, just se we're all clear on that!

I'll stop being mad at Nader when Bush is out of office. Not that Nader still deserves it and not that he doesn't, I've said my piece. I'll stop being mad at my DOG for getting into the trash if Bush gets kicked out.

[no name no slogan]

61. It SHOULDN'T change Dean's platform,

considering Gore's 2000 platform was nearly identical to Dean's. They're both lackluster, corporate-friendly, and continue to concentrate wealth and power with the oligarchy, while throwing a few scraps to the yuppies in the 'burbs while doing nothing for the working poor.

Nader had NOTHING, ZIP, NADA to do with Gore losing in 2000. Nader may have taken a few Gore votes in Florida, but Shrub got the votes of 300,000 Democrats in Florida. So please quit the crybaby antics about how Nader "cost" Gore the election, because it just ain't true, and it's the sign of a remarkably weak candidate.

With Gore's endorsement, it just cements what I've been saying all along: Dean is no different from the DLCers he seeks to replace. These are the same people who led us to defeat in 2000 (legally) and HUMILIATION in 2002.

The Democratic party will continue to swell the ranks of third parties in this country if it continues to sell itself out to the DLC corporatists and its like-minded candidates. If you want the party to be the Rockefeller Republicans, fine. But I prefer to have only ONE conservative party in this country, and one LIBERAL party.

[ShimokitaJer]

46. It certainly reinforces the image that the DLC didn't do right by Gore

in the 2000 election. Many of us (me included) are convinced that it was their attempts at image manipulation that cost Gore the election in 2000. Blame Nader, Jeb, or the Supreme Court if you like, but it was that ridiculous campaign that delivered Bush to us.

[Hep]

56. I blame lots of people

Harris, Jeb, Nader, THE MEDIA, Gore, The Supreme Court, RNC thugs, on and on, not in any order. But it will all feel better if Bush loses.

[ibegurpard]

21. This convinces me

That I was supporting the right person when I was supporting Gore. I'm still sorry he dropped out.

[Lisa0825]

25. I just had to run down the hall and tell my Deanie coworkers!

This is such teriffic news!!! The Dean blog is moving too fast for me to keep up with it!!!

[cally]

23. Wow!!!

I guess he thinks it time for the party to pull together behind one candidate. Wow!! I guess I hope the party does pull together. A long divisive primary battle would make it extremely difficult to beat Bush.

[robbedvoter]

24. Uh, so, now Gore isn't DLC anymore? You guys were cursing him days ago

As a former founder of the Drafr Gore movement I say:
F* YOU AL GORE!!!!]

[oasis]

32. What's his angle? Is he pissed at the leadership for forcing him out?

[bowens43]

51. Perhaps he just decided to endorse the best candidate.

No one can touch Dean.

[ulysses]

34. Gore seemed to me

to be getting a clue re: the DLC back just before he announced that he wouldn't run again.

Care for a little cheese with that whine, at any rate? I thought Gore could do no wrong with you, robbed...:shrug:

[Name removed]

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[kentuck]

26. Since I do respect Gore's judgement....

Should I get on the Gore bandwagon? Hmmmm...

[kentuck]

66. Oops! meant to say "Dean bandwagon"

:) peace

[LittleDannySlowhorse]

27. One of the best things about this

is that maybe now Lieberman will get the hint and drop the fuck out.

[Snellius]

30. Is this Gore's slap back at the Democratic establishment?

Establishment Democrats never really stood behind Gore, especially during Florida.

[bearfartinthewoods]

33. yup

for florida and the fact that they wouldn't back his run this time.

[bowens43]

52. Perhaps he just decided to endorse the best candidate.

[slinkerwink]

35. yep! it's a huge F-U to the Dem establishment!!!!!!!

[Padraig18]

37. Yee- HA!

I'm still jumping up and down!

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[Gloria]

38. Gee, if Gore ran a lousy campaign, according to many on this board,

then why should I necessarily think he chose the right person or that his timing is best for our primary season???

I love Gore--but I don't like the timing of this. I think he should have waited until after the first primaries. I get the horrible sense that there's a bunch of Democratic lemmings heading over the cliff--before the first primary vote has been cast and before Dean has really been forced to focus on some of his flip/flops, image problems under the heat of an intensifying primary season.

This leaves me VERY QUEASY and very, very nervous because now the GOP can run against Dean and Gore, joined at the hip. Don't worry, they will find a way to do it. Gore didn't want to run because we weren't supposed to look at the past, but were supposed to look to the future. Well, the past has just joined the future......maybe way too early.

I am very unhappy with Mr. Gore on this particular action.

[bowens43]

53. I bet you would be singing a different tune

if it was your candidate he was endorsing.

[Gloria]

60. No, I don't think so...The primaries are supposed to allow voters to

evaluate the campaigns. It's bad enough states are eliminating primary elections....

Gore injecting himself this early clouds the issues of the campaigns. He's brought up the PAST, which he said he didn't want to do, and put it into the present campaign season.

I wouldn't mind seeing this injected into the national campaign. But I don't want to see the primary season steamrollered, just as things are getting interesting.

Think about it...this will give FAUX and RW talk radio a field day....

[Leftist78]

42. Yes it's true

This might be the thing that seals it for Dean. I'm not a Dean supporter, but congratulations to him.

[slinkerwink]

43. thank you-----I'm still in shock. This is great news to me!

[LuminousX]

45. I'm still in disbelief

Need to see the words come out of Gore's mouth first.

Mind you, this is out of fear of being overly optimistic, not out of fear he ACTUALLY endorses Dean. This is like thinking you've won the lottery, but you want to go over the numbers real carefully just to be sure.

[maddezmom]

48. Wow~ that's going to be huge for Dean!

Congrats. :)

[slinkerwink]

50. thanks!

:hi:

[Bread and Circus]

54. I have to admit, that will be big for Dean...

Good for Dean... :hi:

[slinkerwink]

62. thanks!

:hi:

[KittyWampus]

57. Let Me Chime In With Congratulations To Dean!

May the best man win... or woman :)

[slinkerwink]

59. thanks!

:hi:

[slinkerwink]

63. :kick:

[maddezmom]

64. Lou Dobbs just reported the same

tomorrow.

[Zynx]

65. We will see a repeat of this picture soon:

[slinkerwink]

69. when was that photo taken?