Columnist from the National Review says Gore is inevitable.

[lildreamer316]

It is a right-wing mag, so know that angle when reading - not like it isn't apparent!

The Man on the White Stallion
Al Gore is inevitable.

By John Derbyshire

From America’s Newspaper of Record, Feb. 19: “Likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain is within single-digit striking distance of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama in heavily Democratic New York state, and leads both in the suburbs and upstate, according to a new poll released yesterday. The Siena College Survey found Clinton and Obama just 7 points ahead of McCain — 49 to 42 percent and 47 to 40 percent, respectively — largely because of overwhelming support from heavily Democratic New York City voters … in the suburbs, McCain led Clinton, 53 to 38 percent, and Obama, 55 to 32 percent. McCain was ahead of the New York senator upstate, 49 to 41 percent, and the Illinois senator by a mere, 42 to 41 percent.”

New York State has voted Republican in only four of the last twelve presidential elections. The last time was 1984. The last Republican president New York City voted for was, I think, Calvin Coolidge.


Memo to the DNC: You are fielding two lackluster candidates here. What’s more, they will get weaker, as the Clinton-Obama scrapping knocks coats of paint from off both of them between now and August. No doubt John McCain will trip over his tongue a time or two, but he won’t be doing any scrapping. Doesn’t need to. Within his party, he’s a winner. Everybody likes a winner. Are you guys worried yet? You should be.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWQxY2Q2ZWRmZGRkMDYwNzU1ZWQxMGU4YzY5ODY1YTQ=

.....do read the rest, it is interesting.

[rosesaylavee]

1. From the last part of the repugnant article...

"Broad-shouldered and confident, his sternocleidomastoid muscle flexing and rippling, the Rescuer sweeps his powerful gaze around the hall. A hush falls. He begins to speak. As he speaks, the same though settles on every listener simultaneously: This is the one. He has always been the one. What fools we have been!

Don’t think it couldn’t happen. Don’t, in fact, think it isn’t going to happen. The Democratic party has two lame candidates, without a dime’s worth of executive experience between them. Competing on the campaign trail, by August each will have thoroughly alienated the other’s supporters, and turned off the voting public. Meanwhile, in the wings, there is this guy who was vice president for eight years, who ran a campaign for the presidency and actually won it! (well, according to party lore). He looks presidential, with a fine strapping physique and a big square jaw. You’re hankering after moral authority? How about a Nobel Peace Prize, for crying out loud!!

But … does he want it? Does Al Gore want to be the president of the United States?

Are you kidding me?"

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This man is an ass. He's throwing darts like the rest of us. Who knows the future? Yes, Gore has more experience than the two current candidates. Yes, he would make a great unity candidate. But all it would take to discharge the situation is for Senator Clinton to withdraw and Obama will be uncontested as we head into the convention.

It's interesting to see what the 'bright minds' from the other side are saying so I am glad you posted it. But, he is just guessing and trying to cover all his bases so he can say, 'see, I called it' should it happen that way.

Many many people I know who are lifelong republicans would vote for Gore. This is also the R pundits and party leaders (do they really have any?) fear talking here.

[Andrea]

2. Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

I hope that the national and international issues that he posits leading into the convention don't come to pass, but I love the outcome.

It's very interesting to note that Derbyshire, although a right-wing guy, says that not only will Gore be the nominee, he will win the GE. McCain really should be a weak candidate. We don't need Republicans to win, as long as we get all the Dems (far from a guarantee with either Obama or Clinton) and most of the independents (we will not get many independents with either Clinton or McCain, according to recent polling).

I hope that both our candidates stay in until the convention, and stay about even, so that this can happen. I've been assuming we need a tie for a brokered convention to happen, but this article makes it sound as though that isn't necessarily the case. He doesn't mention it directly, but that implies it's not necessary. I wonder if both had a significant block, but one had a majority, and yet there was overall dissatisfaction - would that create a situation where Gore could be nominated from the floor? Does anyone know? I will try to find this.

Even though the Obama supporters are zealots, and some of the Clinton supporters are, convention delegates tend to be strong party people and are unlikely to be any of the newbies brought in just this cycle. I think there is a chance that those delegates would be happy to jump ship for Gore when they see how unelectable both Obama and Clinton are. Of course, that would make a lot of the rank and file unhappy, but I don't think it matters too much. Would anyone who really wants Obama or Clinton choose McCain over Gore if that is the choice? Wouldn't nearly every voter who originally supported any candidate who has dropped out - from Biden to Edwards and everyone in between - be thrilled with a Gore nomination?

I'll tell you, any scenario that would give us President Gore is okay by me. We really need him.