If rumors are true and Gore heads the ticket in November...

[grasswire]

...will you support him and vote for him?

[bunnies]

1. Rumors are rarely true.

Just saying.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Yep

[book_worm]

3. There are no rumors. The nominee will be Obama (most likely) or Hillary

[Mudoria]

4. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GodlessBiker]

5. I refuse to answer such a hypothetical question.

[jenmito]

6. The guy who said that was on MSNBC and said he was misquoted. n/t

[DJ13]

7. NO

If he was too cowardly to face the voters in the primaries why should he get a free pass?

[depakid]

41. If you'd read anything about the situation

You'd understand that Gore wasn't "cowardly" -but he does correctly think that the American process is far too long involves too much money and (as every rational person understands) is dysfunctional.

To paraphrase a quote of his: "I don't like seeing Christmas decorations the day after Halloween."

[DeadElephant_ORG]

53. say what you want about Gore - but he is NO "coward". Jeez! nt/

[Lisa0825]

8. Yes.

He was my first choice. But I am not wishing for him anymore, because I think it will make both sides feel like their votes were dismissed.

[Bake]

9. You betcha!!

Bake

[New Dawn]

10. That rumor is false, so I can't respond to your question.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. He won't and here is why

Gore is an honorable man and this would not be an honorable decision he would chose.

It is media speculation, to help destroy the party.

[Tesha]

12. In a heartbeat. (NT)

[democrattotheend]

13. Yes, but I'll be kind of mad about it. Totally undemocratic.

But if he made Obama his VP I'd be more okay with it, though still not happy.

[reflection]

14. I will support the nominee

that went through the primary process, not the guy who snuck across the finish line while the other two candidates were fighting in the mud.

But there is no, repeat, NO, chance of Gore pulling it off anyway. Obama has *earned* his victory he will soon receive. For a white guy to swoop in and "save" the election is the height of arrogance.

[Medusa]

15. For the last fucking time, GORE IS NOT RUNNING

Gore will not accept the nomination if offered to him

and no one is going to offer it to him.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE????????????????????????????????????

[lutefisk]

16. But it could happen, right?............n/t

[Malikshah]

38. What, you got something against Gore?

Chillax already.

No one's coming at you with an ax.

Think happy thoughts.

(Bunnies frolicking in a rainbow colored meadow while Joan Baez sings "The Wheels on the Bus")

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[CTyankee]

45. You'll be posting this til the last dog dies on this board!

I have never seen anything like the fixation some DUers have with the notion that Al Gore is going to pop up like a jack in the box, saving us Dems from ourselves at the last minute!

[Cha]

17. Your threads are always

full of bullshit and here you are again trying to stir up shit.

[grasswire]

34. congratulations

You are the first DU-er I've ever put on ignore. Such a nasty waste of pixels.

[Debi]

18. If rumors are true then Barack Obama and Larry Sinclair are an item

:crazy:

[FlyingSquirrel]

19. Sure why not. Or Hillary, Obama, Edwards, Kerry, Biden, Kucinich...

Peter Pan, Donald Duck, Goofy, Minnie Mouse..............

[Not the Only One]

20. They aren't true, but a Gore-Obama ticket would be fine with me.

[lutefisk]

25. That would be one hell of an inspiring ticket!.........n/t

[Perky]

21. THERE ARE NO RUMORS JUST RUMOR CREATORS

[Spirochete]

22. I suppose

if he's running as a Democrat. I wouldn't be happy about it now, though I was really pulling for Gore to jump in earlier. At this point, though, it would not be fair to the other two who have worked hard campaigning all this time.

[PylesMalfunction]

23. I'll vote for any Democrat...

except for Lieberman. I mean a girl has to have some standards, right? :D

[JKaiser]

24. That would be awesome!

[shomino]

26. I definitely wish Gore would've run...

But I am not at all disappointed to vote for Obama, I have the utmost confidence in the man. Actually he has begun to surpass Gore (at least politically) in my opinion. Gore's work on Global Warming is great cause however that should not be minimized.

If only this were not just a dream...

[IDemo]

27. Ah, Springtime. The Gore threads are popping up like dandelions again

Where's the Roundup when you need it?

[BenDavid]

28. he will lose again. simple as that. Gore had the golden

opportunity to defeat bush in 2000 in the same way Kerry had the opportunity to defeat bush in 2004, but they did not want to fight for it......now years later we are to get behind a man that didn't fight in 2000 and just hand him the nomination. BS! Hell, you might as well start a Kerry drive at the convention.

Now all you obama supporters can do is post that it was bill and hillary's fault that gore and kerry lost..but remember one thing Bill did not have to go to philadelphia on Oct 25 2004 to give a speech and throw his support for Kerry to help Kerry take Pa.(polls showed kerry +2, Bush +2) Nope, Bill could have said, I just got over heart surgery and am physically unable to make it, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Bill made his first public appearance at the rally in Philadelphia and the following week Kerry took Pa....and and before you say, what about gore....

well gore had the chance to use Bill in states that he should have won but because he bought into the right saying they would smear him with bill/monica gore did not use Bill....such a fool gore was not using a sitting president with an approval rating from 68 to 72%.....

[kerry-is-my-prez]

29. HELL. YES.

more enthusiastically than for Clinton or Obama.

[Blue_In_AK]

30. Absolutely and very happily,

but I doubt that this rumor is true.

[susankh4]

31. ABSOLUTELY!

And I would be much relieved to do so!

[Birthmark]

32. HELL YES!!!

Let me expand on that: "HELL YES I WOULD!"

[Alter Ego]

33. We're all gonna feel really, really stupid

if Gore comes in and is given the nomination.

[LWolf]

56. I will not feel "stupid." The word is RELIEVED. n/t

[RememberWellstone]

35. Where to send money?

YES! Absolutely!

[Guaranteed]

36. Absolutely. Gore is our best candidate. nt

[Cronus Protagonist]

37. GORE IS THE ONE

Trust me on that. :P

[Malikshah]

39. For all the folks who take the "Gore in 08" threads as a personal attack against them

their parents, children, and the universe as a whole.

Get over yourselves.

Don't make us start singing "Ya gotta have Heart" from Damn Yankees on your jaded asses. :)

[CTyankee]

48. I don't want to attack anybody, but I don't want folks to get their hopes up.

I love Al Gore and if there was oneiota of a chance he'd actually do this, I'd be first to cheer him on. It's just that we have to be realistic and make a more creative use of our time.

IT's frustrating, I know. I feel awfully frustrated nowadays...

[MoonRiver]

40. That would be a dream come true,

but it won't happen. It's going to be HC or BO.

[Danger Mouse]

42. Absolutely. But it's not going to happen. Sorry.

[OmahaBlueDog]

43. I support our nominee no matter what

[Raejeanowl]

44. Only Gore

Might have brought us all truly together. Now, if this pipe dream came true, it would only serve to tear us further apart. I mean, it reads like a bad satire novel: a fight to the near-death at the convention, super-delegates in a bloody cage match, and then St. Al shows up to thunderous acclamation and announces a change of heart.

I'd like to think he had a little more dignity, among other desirable attributes lacking in BOTH of the current choices.

[LWolf]

58. I disagree.

I think it might be the ONLY thing that could truly unify Democrats in time for November.

I'd be happy with any of many Democrats walking away from the convention with the nomination instead of Clinton or Obama.

I think Gore is the only one who could accomplish the unification of the party at this point.

[AngryAmish]

46. Is he really going to give up his hedge fund for this?

[cooolandrew]

47. I will he is good man and world needs someoen good at the helm. He is a slam dunk with Obama vp.

[ericgtr]

49. Help me to understand this.. The people vote and the dems totally put someone other..

than the elected candidate in? I don't understand this. I know it will be brokered but if they really did something like this I don't even see how it can be legal, regardless of who you support.

[grasswire]

50. have you never heard of a deadlocked convention?

Gee.

Do you know that until just recently the voters didn't know who the nominee would be until the wee hours of convention night, after many ballots?

Do you know what the term "dark horse" means?

Anything can happen, and it can happen legally. Party rules aren't LAWS, for God's sake.

[LWolf]

59. It does away with the divide.

Broker how you like, at this point, there will be no compromise between HRC and Obama voters, no party unity in November. Some, but not enough to broker a WIN.

We need a candidate without the ugly baggage this primary has created.

Edited to add:

Gore is the logical choice, having already been nominated by a majority of Democrats, and having already won an election, if not actually inaugurated.

Symbolically, he's also the best choice to bring the last horrific 8 years to a close.

[Seabiscuit]

51. Someone notify Harry Reid. He was crowing the other day about how it'll be decided

by May, because he had a talk with Howard Dean (he wants to do to either Obama or Hillary what was done to Edwards).

[Thepricebreaker]

52. Talk about disenfranchise the voters!

I guess that doesnt matter because its Al Gore

[grasswire]

54. that's nuts

Only the very young do not understand that there are no LAWS regarding the choosing of a nominee, only party rules. And if a convention is deadlocked, then the deal-making begins. No one is disenfranchised. Good God.

[LWolf]

55. With unbridled enthusiasm.

The same cannot be said for either Clinton or Obama.

[Seen the light]

57. I would not support Al Gore

Talk about taking the power away from the people.....

I don't care how great Gore is, last time I checked, he has not received one single vote.

People that seriously suggest him as the party nominee at this point need to reevaluate their political philosophy.

[LWolf]

60. I seriously suggest him as the party nominee at this point.

My political "philosophy" is thriving, thanks.

I like Gore just fine. I voted for him in 2000. I think he's the best solution to the current crisis, and I do think it's a crisis.

I think this ugly, dysfunctional, undemocratic farce of a primary season has fatally damaged both Obama and Clinton in the GE. I don't think either one of them can unite the democratic party vote, and I think they've given the republicans way too much ammunition against both of them. You think Kerry in '04 was a disaster? Just wait until the republican machine swings into gear with all of the slime given to them BY DEMOCRATS this year.

I think that in order to win in November, the party needs someone who has not been a part of the current civil war. I think Gore is the most logical person for that job. I don't know if he wants it. I do know the whole scenario is unlikely. I'll hold out for it, though, because I think it's the best way to guarantee a win for Democrats in November.

It's also the most elegant way I can think of to bring the reign of George II to an end; to replace him with the man that beat him to begin with.

[jefferson_dem]

61. Nope but it won't happen quite that way.

Obama-Gore. We need them both...right now!