For a long time now I have been watching Al Gore and waiting for him to make his move on the presidency.
He is the perfect choice for an October surprise candidacy. He has more name recognition then practically any other candidate on both sides.
First, he is a former Vice President, and frankly the only one still living with any real electability. He is the world’s more recognized (self proclaimed) expert on Global warming, and continues his campaign despite the fact that more and more elements of his movie are shown to be misstatements, distortions or outright fiction. Let’s not forget that his movie is an Oscar winner, and even if the Oscar was not awarded to him, he is still the one most people remember as being the Oscar winner because of his prominence.
Add to this the Honorary Emmy he will be awarded in a few months for his contributions to broadcasting, and the fact he is the leading candidate to win a Nobel Peace Prize and you have a man with all the credentials, recognition and popularity, despite having no intellectually honesty, ethics or scruples regarding his environmental mission.
He would be running on a platform of activism and cause. Where Bush beat him in 2000 was in personality and credibility on the leadership front, but with the war so unpopular, strength has to be carefully played. Instead of hard line stances against terrorists, he will take a hard line stance against disaster, making him the human hero of the world.
People complain about Bush’s perceived globalism and imperialism, but where Bush may have seen Democracy as something to be shared, spread and encouraged, Al see green. He sees his message in the spreading of a global movement to stem climate change, despite the fact the evidence does not support man made causes, and no evidence exists that man can impact if for the better either.
I look at the two side by side and frankly I prefer a man who would seek to spread freedom, not a man who seeks to imprison us in a cage of Ivy, tied with a yoke of principle.
