Nixon’s ’68 Comeback Offers Clues For Gore (from NYO)

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A Republican writes about Gore...

http://www.observer.com/20060227/20060227_Roger_J._Stone_Jr._politics_wiseguys.asp

By Roger J. Stone Jr.

Several weeks ago, former Vice President Al Gore told the Associated Press that he “had no plans to seek the Presidency in 2008.” His words were eerily reminiscent of a quote from another former Vice President, Richard Nixon, who told the same Associated Press in November of 1965 that he “had no plans to seek the Presidency in 1968.”

Many years later, in 1992, I chatted with Nixon in his Saddle River, N.J., home. He told me that “no man who narrowly misses the brass ring ever stops dreaming of another shot at it.” If Nixon was right, Mr. Gore may be positioning himself to be the one Democrat who can defeat Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 Presidential primaries.

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Nixon’s book Six Crises was a cathartic exercise that Nixon wrote after he lost the 1960 Presidential election—one that maintained his place on the national stage. Mr. Gore’s new documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, thrusts him back to the center of the political life.

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[catmother]

1. but nixon was a liar. gore is not.

:think:

[AlGore-08.com]

4. Yeah, that's a given....

But it's interesting that a lot of the "Gore should run in 2008" opeds are coming from the Observer...

[laststeamtrain]

2. Gore is definitely my favorite name brand Dem. He's been laying back

...establishing some 'outsider' creds.
I like the sound and look of Gore/Edwards '08.

[sueh]

3. I wouldn't mind a Gore/Clark ticket. n/t

[yurbud]

5. How did Gore loses primaries in 88 and get beaten by bland Dukakis?

[AlGore-08.com]

6. 1988 was a cattle call - - Dukakis, Gore, Gephardt and Jackson

All came close to winning after Gary Hart did a Ross Perot and lost his front runner status. (Also running in 1988 were Babbitt, Biden & Simon).

[Gman]

9. That was the first time I heard Jackson speak in person

at a union convention. You could have heard a pin drop in that massive convention hall.

[Gman]

8. Gore was seen as way too stiff and conservative in '88

and he really was back then. That's when Tipper had him have the Senate hearings on rock music lyrics.

[Apollo11]

7. interesting article

If a lifelong Republican can see Gore coming back, it makes that possibility somehow more real.

I have a dream, that less than 3 years from now we will see Al Gore's inauguration as President of the USA! :)

Let's make it happen people! The world needs Al Gore! :)

My one plea is: let him choose his own running mate (don't worry - next time it won't be Lieberman)


In Gore We Trust
www.algore.org :)