Reply #84: So Gore wants to ruin Penelas' carreer -- how does this help Kerry?

[dolstein]

Even if Penelas doesn't win the nomination, as mayor of Miami-Dade county, he can be a useful ally for Kerry in the fall. Just because Gore has a personal axe to grind doesn't justify his going out of his way to make Penelas an ineffective surrogate for Kerry.

Sorry, but Gore is clearly putting his interests above those of the Florida Democratic Party and of the Kerry campaign. I suppose this kind of selfishness appears to some DU'ers. But as someone who actually wants to take back the White House (unlike many DU'ers, who actually savor political defeal), I don't appreciate what Gore is doing. He should have saved this kind of dirt for his memoir.