If Al Gore jumped in the race last minute, would you vote for him?

[Perfection]

Depends on if Chipotle is still giving out free burritos for voting.

 

[Japanrocks12]

Yeah, I'd vote for him. not that he has much going for him, I just prefer him to any other candidate is all.

 

[The Yankee]

If this poll had any value at all, it should mean Gore should wait another four or eight years until those under-18 people mature.

 

[drachasor]

I'd vote for Gore, I think he has a very good idea about the problems facing our democracy today and how to solve them.

I also think a Gore/Obama ticket would be frickin' awesome.

 

[dutchfire]

If this poll had any value at all, it should mean Gore should wait another four or eight years until those under-18 people mature.

It's under-18 and foreign. It means that Al Gore should run in another country

 

[The Yankee]

Perhaps. But some are willing to do anything he said because he used PowerPoint well.

 

[dutchfire]

At least he has one skill, that's more than you can say of some other politicians

 

[puglover]

No... way... possible.

 

[Irish Caesar]

A last minute jump in with no platform, campaigning on recognition and the "ooh shiny" factor alone, is a recipe for disaster.

AHEM, Fred Thompson.

Not that I have any opinion on Sen. Thompson, but Labor Day the year before the election has been the more traditional time to enter a campaign. As soon as the president wins a second term has not.

 

[skadistic]

Not at all. Maybe if he told me he invented the internets or showed me graphes with no numbers based on shacky science to hammer home unproven politically motivated science.

Oh wait he all ready did that and thats why I wouldn't vote for him. That and hes a sore loser.

 

[drachasor]

Not at all. Maybe if he told me he invented the internets or showed me graphes with no numbers based on shacky science to hammer home unproven politically motivated science.

If you think Global Warming is "unproven politically motivated science" then no one has any reason to pay any heed to anything you say about any science. The warming is definitely happening (heck you can see its effects all over the globe), and scientists have found a very chance (90%) that it is the result of human activity.

I guess you know more about science than the scientists though, right?

 

[CaptainF]

Nope.

Nothing personal, just don't like his politics and his demeanor.

 

[skadistic]

If you think Global Warming is "unproven politically motivated science" then no one has any reason to pay any heed to anything you say about any science. The warming is definitely happening (heck you can see its effects all over the globe), and scientists have found a very chance (90%) that it is the result of human activity.

I guess you know more about science than the scientists though, right?

*sigh* I don't deny the warming. I deny why its warming. I deny what the jet setting Gore said it was caused by. And that 90% is a nifty talking point but its not set. The scientists said that maybe possibly might be human caused. And then you get those studies that say the dreaded CO2 isn't as bad as the methane from cows or a myriad of other factors. (Cue some one with the temp/CO2 graph that proves nothing.)

And you may want to check your memo on newest catch phrases. Its not global warming anymore, because its not global warming. Its now called global climate change, because well the climates are changing. But not all are getting warmer.

Please do me a favour and try to refute this so I can flex my science knowledge. You know the one that nobody should pay any heed to.

 

[Stewbert 08]

Not that I have any opinion on Sen. Thompson, but Labor Day the year before the election has been the more traditional time to enter a campaign. As soon as the president wins a second term has not.

No, the correct time to start running for Preznit is when people are enthusiastic about you. Not when your coy "Am I in or not" bullsh*t has got so aggravating that people blow you off every time you open your mouth.

Gore missed that boat long ago (I believe intentionally - he never wanted to run, and was just teasing the media asshats) and Thompson is getting very very close to missing it. His online popularity has certainly already peaked. And as Dean proved you can't win the Presidency on the Internets.

In the real world, faffing off to play Mr. Pretend President on Leno while your competitors are answering actual debate questions in a primary state is not the way to run your campaign. Thompson is either incredibly lazy or incredibly conceited and confident in his "inevitability" - more so than Hillary. I believe it's the laziness personally. But either way, it's totally unfitting for a future president.

Also, the whole "I don't go to church" and "I have no opinion on Terri Schiavo" stuff he keeps spewing may make him the first Republican to get nominated by repeatedly kicking the base in the nuts. Or, you know, it may make NOT the nominee after all.

Because of all these factors, I believe more and more every day that the Republican nominee will be either Romney or Giuliani... either way, America wins President Obama, here we come.

 

[Integral]

OP: Nah, I wouldn't vote for Gore.

Godwynn: What changed between 2000 and 2008 that devalued Gore so much?

Stewbert: Why Obama? Not to derail the thread, but what does he bring to the field that the other eight Democrats do not? Or rather, what does he bring that Clinton and Edwards do not have?

-Integral

 

[Godwynn]

OP: Nah, I wouldn't vote for Gore.

Godwynn: What changed between 2000 and 2008 that devalued Gore so much?

-Integral

Before he got shafted in the 2000 election he was halfway decent, and definently better than Bush. In 2008 he has gone off the deep end by trying to make up for what he lost seven years ago, and I like a lot more Republicans now than Bush Jr.

 

[downtown]

If I had been old enough, I would have voted for Al Gore in 2000. I doubt I would vote for him him now. Not that I think he's unqualified (he would make a good president), but I just happen to like other people better.

If he was the democratic nom, I'd think he'd lose, but I'd likely vote for him. I'm pretty disgusted with most of the republican field.

 

[amadeus]

And how much would you be paying me to do this?

 

[Stewbert 08]

Four million dollars but you can't get it until 2012 because it's in a LOCKBOX

 

[amadeus]

Four million dollars but you can't get it until 2012 because it's in a LOCKBOX

Well, if I was anything like the Social Security Administration, I must have spent that money years ago.