Gore says he won’t run
I am pretty disappointed. Al Gore told the BBC that he has no intention to run for President. This is a shame, because he has been on the right side of issues since he lost to the Supreme Court and James Bakker in 2000. He is planning to do an international concert ala Live8 on July 7th. Hopefully Philly get the nod again.
Mixed feelings. You’re right, he was good, but no second chances. Gore snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by running a lame campaign.
He tried to win by pulling just enough “undecideds” to win in the electoral college. Instead of running as a Democrat he let Bush energize his base.
Having said that, Kerry was worse for taking a page out of Gore’s losing playbook.
The good news for our side is that McCain looks like he is going to try and run toward the undecideds this time.
Viva Obama!
I wish Gore would run. There is no Democrat running, possibly excepting Kucinich, more versed or committed on environmental and energy issues. [Sadly for Delaware, Biden is probably the worst of all on this front.]
I hope the Democrats in Congress and in the Presidential race (which is all Congressional Democrats anyway) pay more than lip service to these crux challenges that implicate both peace and prosperity. My party, the GOP, has dropped the ball for nearly a decade. The titular GOP president Bush has been an unimitigated counterproductive disaster on energy and environment. Once his stain and his strangle are gone I believe our party has the capacity to really seize these issues for the public’s long term interests and true national security (versus forced globalized “democracy” as a proxy for foolhardy and destabilizing military interventions).
From what I can tell it will take a new generation of leadership in the GOP to have leaders who understand and embrace clean energy solutions and environmental action against this free-for-all degradation, too long underway.
To me, there are no larger issues of our time, middle east distractions and incursions included, than energy and our environment. The GOP does not deserve leadership if it can’t get it together and move this issue forward, marshaling all those “free” market forces so many Republicans claim to protect and serve. But, then, neither do the Democrats if they make themselves all about the “Iraq Opposition”.
Bold unwavering leadership is needed in this country to tackle energy and environment challenges looming large and unavoidable. I am a Republican but whichever party’s leaders take the LEAD on these issues, and by a lot more than nose, will have my support.
Tyler,
Do you think there is any republican running that meets that criteria? It seems to me that the republican meal ticket as of late is predicated on being bad on environmental issues.
Like I said :
“I am a Republican but whichever party’s leaders take the LEAD on these issues, and by a lot more than nose, will have my support.”
No Republican running (or thinking about it) comes close to meeting this criteria. But then, no Democrats have either. But one can hope.
Partisan blindness is not an affliction I am going to suffer, particularly not to blind myself to the looming energy and environmental crises we are inviting by all this bullshit half-stepping on both sides of the aisle.
No Republican?
John McCain admits that climate change related human activity is a serious issue and for him this is not a “no brainer” given where the GOP base is right now.
McCain’s emergence as Washington’s most important champion of global warming legislation raises some interesting questions — about him, and about the rest of the Republican Party. Is he an isolated outlier or an early sign that some in the GOP might be ready to soften their anti-environmental stance?
Sorry, anon…McCain is out for me. He isn’t going to pull himself back from his long slide over the cliff by some last minute lip service to the environment.
I respect the NRDC and what RFK Jr. have put together, but McCain’s energy policy is essentially perpetual middle east war…environmental fluffery doesn’t recover from that, NRDC or no NRDC.
McCain had a lot of power in the Senate and a damn long time to use it for good. Instead he did jack diddly squat… except suck up to dumbass and his petro mafia at the other end of PA ave.
I wasn’t accusing you of blindness. I was really wondering if you had any hope of getting a republican that fits the bill. I don’t know enough about Romney or Huckabee to know whether they pass the test or not.
I didn’t think you were saying I was blind, LG. I think I was reflexively trying to say that my eyes are wide open, both for BS and for the real deal, as either might present themselves. So far not much real deal, to give you a sort of answer…certainly nothing to make me want to throw in with anyone from either side….yet. GOP prospects are looking mighty dim for ’08. Bush really effed us up good…..
…..speaking strictly on a national level, mind you.
In Delaware the Democrats/Minner are as damaged as Bush/GOP are in a national sense…failed, moribund, decrepit, worn out, coasting, and just as vulnerable.
Democrats/Minner are as damaged as Bush/GOP are in a national sense
You would think so, but somehow I don’t think Delaware voters will respond with a Republican wave at every level. I think they’ll just elect a better Democrat for governor, and keep on electing Dems in the GA. That’s how much Bush has screwed up the Republicans.
Point taken, though. Delaware Dems are living in a particular state of grace right now that they probably don’t fully comprehend.
“but somehow I don’t think Delaware voters will respond with a Republican wave at every level. I think they’ll just elect a better Democrat for governor”
I agree we need to vote for the person not the party. However, the Delaware democrats are like Delaware chickens pecking in their our shit. As I said before we need a CEO not a governor and on the Dem’s side Markell is it. If Carney wins we’ll have all tthe dip-shit in the cabinet. If Copeland is label a rich Dupont then what was Pete Dupont who put the fire under Delaware’s economy?
Carney needs to start show us who he really is. Yea he is a nice guy however we need someone with guts that can micro-manage in an effective way through holding his cabinet’s feet to the fire !
Education being the biggest expense, I question why there hasn’t been a shake up. The secretary of education needs to go for support Rodel’s Vision 2015 Plan rather then the up coming revision in DSTP and the utilization of the Growth Model Plan approved by USDOE. Also, Minner’s appointees to the Delaware State Board of Education are sitting around with their thumbs up their asses by allowing Christina to close two more city schools which is in conflict with the Neighborhood School legislation. Surely if the Republican retake the Governor’s House they would clean the shit out of the cabinet.
Back to Gore ! I think Gore has had time to reflect on himself and has become a wiser person. I think he would hold up quite well against Clinton and Edwards.
McCain, just blew my vote because I am Pro-Choice giving the woman the right to control her body. McCain would like to see Roe Vs Wade over turned.