where is the draft gore campaign?

[ooglymoogly]

where is the draft gore campaign, where is the draft gore campaign...damit WHERE IS THE DRAFT GORE CAMPAIGN? GORE FEINGOLD, GORE CONYERS, GORE MURTHA, GORE CLARK...ALL, ALL, ALL, WINNING TICKETS...PREFERABLY 3RD PARTY. SCREW THE D.C. DEMS

[tatertop]

1. NOW we're talking!

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

2. There is used to be one...

a while ago, but there isn't any any more.

Let us wait for the '06 elections to finish and then start one up...

The best way to get his attention is to camp out in front of his house on a hunger strike...

[bowens43]

3. Gore's not running (thank the gods). Leave the man alone.

Thrid party? Yeah that worked out real well in 2000.

I am so sick of these 'let's shoot ourselves in the ass again' posts.

[madmunchie]

4. What is wrong with Gore, he won the 1st time and that is when

many people LIKED Bush.

[Burning Water]

6. What's wrong

with this theory is that he won't be running against Bush.

[ooglymoogly]

21. no thats true but he will be running against what *and the gop has wrought

and if diebold et al tries to shoot him in the foot at least we know he will fight.

[Burning Water]

23. Gore was

able to fight because the results were so close in one state. Kerry was unable to do so because they weren't. I'm not saying he didn't really get the most votes, but on the official tabulation, he was way behind.

Now, that might very well all been due to Diebold. BUT, and it is a big but, no evidence was produced that could have stood up in court. If Kerry had had any, I doubt not that he would have fought. Yes, I know all the evidence points to a Kerry victory. But the evidence can be, and would be, spun. It was too circumstantial, too open to differing interpretations. And boy, have I read a lot of them.

What I'm saying is that, whatever the reason, Republican cheating or an honest defeat by the Republicans, these two men did not "win" in the sense that they did not take the oath of office, occupy the White House, or exercise the powers of the Presidency.

Maybe I'm not being logical about this, but I really feel that this will handicap their race. I think that they will be too easily distracted from the important stuff by questions about this from the corporate media. They would get defensive, always fatal. Maybe not. But is it a chance you are willing to take, given the importance of the race?

And the only worse candidate would be Hillary, who has her own baggage. Would there be questions about how she handled her husband's affair? Well, why not? What about the reported "vandalism" that the Clintons and their staffers allegedly committed on the way out of the WH? Maybe Vince Foster will rise from the grave to haunt her??

We need a fresh face, and that's why my support is going to Wesley Clark. But if his supporters can get Gore the nomination, I will certainly give him the same support in the general election.

[ooglymoogly]

25. look i love wes clark...i just don't think he has a chance

gore won 04 in my opinion...and i think now he would be unbeatable...i would happily vote for clark on the ticket in any form...but i think gore has the record and prominence to win...have you heard any of his speeches lately...he has become an even bigger winner than before and he has been vetted.

[Burning Water]

26. Well, let's

fight in out in the primaries, and shake hands after they are over, and go after the bad guys together.:)

[ooglymoogly]

10. gore is you peoples worst nightmare because he is a sure thing

scary huh...not one of the dem good ol' boys. you may call it shooting yourself in the foot, i call it putting on a good pair of fighting boots.

[AtomicKitten]

17. gore will unite the party

I appreciate your support of Gore but don't use him to set "you" apart from "them."

GORE IN '08.

[Burning Water]

5. Gore,

Kerry, or Hillary will surely lead the Democratic Party into the outermost depths of despair and catastrophe. Not one of them can lead the the Dems to victory in 2008. Gore and Kerry have had their chances and fallen short. Hillary is the only candidate that would be worse than one of those two. She would fire up the Repuke base like a cherry-bomb up their ass.

I'll support them, if they get the nomination, just as I would my own favorite Dem candidate, WEsley Clark. But totally without any expectation that they would win.

Clark's da man.

Intelligence, experience, national security credibility, hell even looks, for the shallow. He can't be swift-boated, and he doesn't come across as having a stick up his ass. He doesn't have the emotional and political baggage of having lost a race he should have won. What more can a Democrat ask for in a candidate?!

[NYCGirl]

7. Clark can't be swift-boated? You must be either naive or joking. NT

[Burning Water]

13. Well, I suppose

anybody can be back-stabbed or lied about. Making it stick is the hard part.

What did you have in mind?

[NYCGirl]

15. I don't have anything in mind, but the GOP can take anything and

smear with it.

[Burning Water]

19. Yes.

But making it stick is the hard part.

[JNelson6563]

24. Oh please

With SOA as a favored cause yeah, I see easy swift-boating material.

This is from a link in LBN:

Published on Saturday, January 17, 2004 by the Boston Globe

Facing Questions, Clark Backs Army School

by Joanna Weiss

CONCORD, N.H. -- Retired General Wesley K. Clark sometimes downplays his Army background, and criticizes the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays. But there is one military institution he vigorously defends: the controversial academy once known as the US Army School of the Americas.

Opposition to the school, which trains military officers from Latin American countries, has long been a cause celebre among some Democrats and liberal activists, who say the academy has trained some of the most notorious criminals of the region and teaches skills that Latin American armies sometimes use against their own citizenry. Supporters of the school point to reforms from the 1990s, and say its courses teach foreign soldiers about democracy and human rights.

But many critics have not wavered in their opposition, and voters on the campaign trail -- in New Hampshire and elsewhere -- have been questioning Clark about his support.

Clark never headed the school but had dealings with it when he led the US Southern Command from 1996 to 1997. He delivered a graduation speech there in 1996 and has praised the school before Congress. George Bruno, the cochairman of Clark's New Hampshire campaign and a former ambassador to Belize, was a paid adviser to the school when it reopened with a new charter in 2001.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0117-01.htm


Why is it with some Clark supporters ANYONE else will lead us to utter defeat? As if htat isn't enough we are subjected to delusions like "the GOP can't do anything to harm Clark, he's untouchable". :puke:

Julie

[madmunchie]

9. I fully supported Clark in 04'

I even met him a couple of times. I think that he would be outstanding as the President and I would be thrilled if he became the President. All of that being said, Gore has a special place in politics. He ran for President and won, but had the Presidency stolen from him. He was always against the Iraq War. He has transformed into a much more passionate speaker. He is saying what all of the Democrats want to hear. He speaks directly and bluntly about * and his disastrous policies. He has a fabulous record to run on: Imagine, when I was VP 8 short years ago we had $$$$ surplus, we now have $$$ deficit, we started paying down the National Debt, our allies were also our friends, We created #### jobs, * is at a net loss.

Gore can talk and remind people about what it USED to be like with him in the WH.

He has a wonderfully unique position this way. He can run like no other candidate can run.

I think that he would be a winner and a winner that this time would overwhelmingly win and move into the WH.

[Burning Water]

14. Well, my crystal ball

is a little cloudy, so you could be right.

But I think the Dems have a much greater chance of taking the WH with Clark, and the least chance with Hillary, followed by Kerry, then Gore.

[madmunchie]

16. Kerry is a loser, although he probably won in 04, his actions

afterward, or lack thereof, showed too many of us that he wouldn't fight for us. He didn't say a word about Ohio. At least Gore contested Florida and was eventually beat by the Supreme Court. Kerry, know what happened in Florida, didn't adequately prepare for the dirty politics of * and said nothing when he "lost". Kerry wasn't really getting support because he was so overwhelmingly loved by the Democrats, he basically was our only choice. With as many people disgusted with Bush at the time of the election; Kerry should have walked away with it - no problem. He wasn't a strong candidate and still won't be a strong candidate. If her were to run, he would get votes of people who don't want "more of the same", not votes FOR Kerry.

Hillary is a definet loser. #1, she is a woman, and no woman will be elected to the Presidency in 08', #2 She will get more Republicans to sit home rather than vote for a Democrat, and/or Republicans will run to the polls to make sure that she doesn't get elected. If Hillary gets the nomination, than I know we are at the end of times and that this country no longer has a 2 party system.

Gore, Feingold, Clark....best candidates for us so far

[Burning Water]

20. I don't know that

a woman couldn't be elected in 2008, if there was one ready. Hillary seems to be the only one, though running though.

Hillary won't be elected, not because she is a woman, but because she is too polarizing to the right. And because her support of the war has cost her needed Dem votes. Nothing to do with being a woman. Just with being HIllary
clinton.

[ooglymoogly]

22. i'll second your entire post

[Tom Rinaldo]

8. It's all over DU

Really, it is. Nothing wrong with that, but it's going on here everyday. That is how it works. People promoting who they believe in. A day rarely passes without at least two or three Gore threads prominently kicked on DU. Go for it if that's what you want.

[Tom Rinaldo]

11. 3 Gore threads in the top 10 currently in this forum

At least there were when I was typing this. That's what I mean.

[lwcon]

12. It's over here...

http://draftgore.com/
___

Hey, the liberal light is always on at the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. Please stop by and say "hi!"

[ooglymoogly]

18. gggeeerrrrrraaaaiiiit thanx

will subscribe and bookmark...and do what i can.