2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumOne candidate would have been acceptable to progressives AND corporate Dems
Al Gore.
I wonder why he didn't run again, either in 2008 or now.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)His work on climate change has been a lot more important. Also, I'm not sure how "progressive" he really is, considering he chose Joe Liebermann as his running mate.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)His environmental record is good, but would have to think carefully about the rest.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Samantha
(9,314 posts)He told Gore Lieberman would help him carry Florida, and Gore really needed Florida. Gore and Lieberman were never compatriots; the Liebermans and the Clintons are longstanding good friends.
Sam
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)He selected Joseph Lieberman, a Clinton administration critic, as his vice-presidential running mate. With few exceptions (e.g., a New York fundraiser), Gore and President Clinton never campaigned together, a clear break from their teamwork in 1992 and 1996. In keeping with the maxim, "actions speak louder than words," recall how passionately the Gores kissed before the Democratic nominee delivered his acceptance speech. Was this a sign that their marriage was a different kind of relationship than what the country had observed in the Clintons the previous eight years?
Lieberman wanted to impeach Bill Clinton before the Independent Investigation even came out
Samantha
(9,314 posts)and I can believe Lieberman wanted to impeach Bill Clinton before the Independent Investigation came out.
I think they are still friends today.
Sam
Nailzberg
(4,610 posts)And maybe Al has had enough of the other stuff. As president, he wouldn't get to ignore the BS.
But you're right, he could've run in 08, he could've run now. And he'd have been a real interesting voice in the mix.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Thirties Child
(543 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)ReThugs haven't done it since '68, and the only reason it worked for them then was that Johnson's bloodyminded insistence on keeping us in Vietnam destroyed the party.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Make no mistake, he WON, but it was stolen from him. After that kind of earthshattering injustice, don't you think most anyone would be 100% over it?
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)to appeal to progressives except on cultural issues. On core economic, foreign policy, trade, and the like, they spout bland platitudes at election time then do what their Wall Street masters tell them once in office.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)Al Gore was one of three people asked to consider jumping in. He declined. He has a great life now and I don't blame him.
Sam
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Probably 80% of the R's are sleeping around in some way or other, but they'd still feel entitled to get in touch with their inner Cotton Mather about that.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)pay prostitutes to change their poopy dipeys, and just about anything else without fear of removal from office.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...he is another corporatist in my book, and also, he's not enough of a fighter. He selected Joe Fucking Lieberman for his running mate, based in part on Joe's moralistic finger-wagging (he was the very first Democrat to chide Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky debacle), and when Bush stole the election he failed to fight as hard as he should have IMO.
No, he had his day.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Has he ever renounced that position?
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)He has establishment cred and middle-class background cred and he has genuine authenticity
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Didn't his son have stock in some petroleum interests in Ukraine?
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)At best, he would be like Obama: he would help us when it also helps the rich or at least they don't object to helping.
On foreign policy, he would probably be somewhere between Obama and Hillary, which is still too hawkish for me.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)I voted for Bernie here in Ohio. And would love to see him beat the odds and pull off the nomination. But I don't live in a fantasy world either.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)I am sooooo disgusted with the DNC.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)I don't get it. Gore, the Clintons, Kerry, Obama...they're all cut from the same cloth.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)That the DLC/New Dems care so little what the progressive base thinks that they don't even bother to try to find a candidate who will fire us up a bit (while still carrying his quota of corporate water).