A Draft Al Gore group delivered the former vice president more than 100,000 signatures on a petition urging him to mount a White House bid.
Draft Gore organizers brought the list of Gore fans to the Democrat's Nashville office yesterday morning, and called the number a "major milestone."
"This enormous outpouring of support for Al Gore is testimony both to his enduring appeal among the grassroots and to the dissatisfaction of the Democratic base with the current crop of declared candidates," said Monica Friedlander, chairman of the draft effort, which has been spotted here and in New Hampshire, New York, Iowa and California.
The group also is running radio ads to persuade Gore to jump in the race. They noted in a release the results of a recent New Hampshire poll showing Gore could win the Granite State should he run.
"Because of its comments section filled with personal stories and direct pleas to Gore, the petition represents a historic portrait of the reborn populist movement in this country -- and not just among Democrats. Surprisingly, a very large number of signatures come from independents and Republicans, many of whom regret not voting for Gore in 2000," the group noted.
Here's a sample of the list's personal comments lauding Gore.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who lost to President Bush in 2004, called Gore a "great leader" on the environment in a recent interview with this Fishwrapper."I am a lifelong Republican and in 2000 I foolishly voted for President Bush. I was wrong. I am older and wiser now. I wish to offer my support and help in my very GOP state of Wyoming." -- Philip Hritzak, Casper, WY "Mr. Gore, my son is going into Iraq today. Please run and bring some reason to this world. He is in the 3rd ID. Please help!" -- Sharon Pote, Booneville, AR "There's no higher calling, than when a nation asks for you to lead. We are asking you to lead now, and I hope you'll rise to it." -- Jarrett Wold, Minot, ND
"I've learned never to urge anybody ... people have to make up their own minds," Kerry said when asked if Gore should run in 2008. "He'd clearly be a very credible candidate if he decided to do it. He won once, he just didn't get inaugurated."
-- Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (196)
Gore is the posterchild for birth control!!
Posted by Scott | July 12, 2007 3:27 PM
you have got to be kidding me.
Posted by wes | July 12, 2007 3:34 PM
Gore lost once. I'd love to see him lose again.
Posted by Tom | July 12, 2007 3:34 PM
Gore is a one trick pony, and when voters find out what his CO2 scheme is really going to cost, and what it will do to the economy they will drop him like a hot potato. Can you say McGovern redux.
Posted by Norman C. Snyder | July 12, 2007 3:34 PM
A few votes for a nobody will not a president make!
Posted by Awkins | July 12, 2007 3:41 PM
Well, I'm older since 2000, and my eyes have been opened by what many Democrats wish we would ignore...we cannot afford to leave Iraq. You have to keep the bad guys on the defensive. We pull out---they come here. It's that simple.
Also, did I mention that my son is NOT going into Iraq today (as part of our ALL-VOLUNTEER ARMY?)
Higher calling?!? I'm part of this nation and I don't want Gore anywhere NEAR the White House; so please don't speak for me.
There are a bunch of whiny, lazy, cowardly people in this country who would like nothing better than to see us suffer and fail. Why is that?
Posted by Ted Zeigler | July 12, 2007 3:47 PM
So he can lead like the debacle of the 2000 election and the Live Earth junk science concert ? And Sharon in Booneville, your son is a true hero and I would like to vote for him .
Posted by JACK | July 12, 2007 3:49 PM
I hope he runs. It'll be Mondale #2, as the republicans sweep 49 states.
Posted by GMan | July 12, 2007 3:49 PM
I'd pay to see him go into his mountain man remission like he did the last time he lost. An inconvenient truth would be learning that this guy isn't a leader for the people, he just wants attention.
Posted by Kurtis | July 12, 2007 3:50 PM
"He won once"????? EVERY recount has shown over and over again that President Bush won. Its this refusal to acknowledge this "inconvenient truth" that will assure no democrat will win the White House in '08
Posted by RAS | July 12, 2007 3:52 PM
Re-defeat Gore!!!
Posted by greg vance | July 12, 2007 3:53 PM
So will he travel in Prius 1?
Posted by Eric | July 12, 2007 3:55 PM
When he left the White House his estimated net worth was 25 million. Today it is over 100 million because of profits he has gained off his books and speaking engagements. He manipulates people's fear for profit, isn't this exactly what libs accuse Bush of. Guess it is different when its your guy!
Posted by Brian | July 12, 2007 3:57 PM
Re: 2000 Election
All Al had to do in order to win the election was to win his home state of Tennessee, which he failed to do. Of all people, the people of Tennessee knew him better than anyone else in this country. That election was not stolen, as is so often erroneously reported, it was lost: pure, plain and simple.
Credible ? Sure he is. He was a career politician and the Vice President. He is certainly better than the rest of the bunch currently comprising the presidential wannabes in the Democratic party,
which isn't saying a whole lot. Would he be good for our country as President ? Is that what we really need right now ? Another career politician ... or someone that will make decisions that are made in the best interest of the country instead of their own personal and political interests ?
Posted by billybob | July 12, 2007 3:58 PM
Drafting Al Gore is a great idea! Nobody can snatch defeat from certain victory like Al Gore. Run Al run!!!!!!!!
Posted by Frank G. | July 12, 2007 3:58 PM
Talk about an inconvienient truth! How about the Goreacle's enviromental hypocrisy. How much did Gore spend on his combined energy bill last year? Do as I say, not as I do. American sheepoeple wake up!
Posted by Brandon | July 12, 2007 3:58 PM
Let's see. A sitting 8 year VP during a period of consistent economic growth could not close the deal by winning his own state? This guy is a stooge. The Dems cannot win with Hiliary and they definately cannot win with this guy.
Posted by C.V. | July 12, 2007 3:59 PM
What a liar !
Posted by Stuart | July 12, 2007 3:59 PM
Al Gore is a man full of wonderful useful knowledge! He has centered his life around trying to STOP and put and end to this horrific global warming! He is an outstanding man! GREAT father to a drug addicted child!
Posted by LUKE | July 12, 2007 4:00 PM
Mondale #2? Are you kidding? Gore has been right about the two most pressing issues of our time and has higher favorabilities than most candidates in the field...and he's likely to win a Nobel Peace Prize. He would wipe the floor with flip-floppin' Mitt or Rudy "strong on defense, weak on radios" Giuliani.
Posted by NYPopulist | July 12, 2007 4:01 PM
The former Vice President would have huge problems running for President...Owning a Carbon Credits Co. and profiting from it for one. He also has been a extremist on other issues that will put him at odds with most people...His running for President would only guarantee one thing...A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT
Posted by Kevin from Duluth | July 12, 2007 4:02 PM
Go for it Al. Please do us all a favor and run. I mean, it would only help the US turn into Europe post World War II from an economic standpoint. So please run Al. Everyone in France is counting on it!
Posted by Rick | July 12, 2007 4:03 PM
Some people on the democrat side are really desparate. I guess Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama and John Edwards don't do anything for them that they have to wish Al Gore into the nomination!
Posted by Awkins | July 12, 2007 4:09 PM
As a resident of Florida, I can hardly stand to think we could see him again. Kerry thinks he won? He lost in six counts. How many more times would he have to lose before Kerry would say that he won convincingly?
Posted by Vaughn Jones | July 12, 2007 4:13 PM
Please God, let him run again. Anything that wastes more of the money on the left before we even get to the general election, the better! It will help Rudi or Fred wipe out the Dems again. They just never seem to learn. At least Bill Clinton "acted" like a moderate before he got elected. I dream of the Dems sending up another far left lamb to the slaughter!!!!!!
Posted by Phil | July 12, 2007 4:14 PM
We have yet to learn just how much money Mr. Gore stands to make on the "Carbon Credit" scam.
Posted by Charlie Carson | July 12, 2007 4:16 PM
Al Gore would be a dream come true for the GOP. After he embarrassed himself trying to steal the 2000 election he pretty much wrote himself out of American politics forever.
Posted by Ryan | July 12, 2007 4:18 PM
Gore did win the popular vote in 2000. The reason he was not inaugurated is our severely outdated electoral system.
If he runs.....he will win!!!!
Posted by Dan | July 12, 2007 4:19 PM
Such a pointless petition. Kinda like running a petition to make farting illegal.
Good luck with this petition of futility.
Posted by Twitchings | July 12, 2007 4:19 PM
I'm not going to suggest that Gore would be a sure thing, but for anyone to suggest that ANY republican would be a sure thing against ANY democrat, up to and including a yellow dog, only demonstrates how completely detached from reality they are. Things may change - they will change - but right now the Repubs are on the ropes.
Posted by Bryan | July 12, 2007 4:21 PM
Those 100,000 names, any of them actually alive?
Perhaps Michael Moore will be his VP and Cindy Sheehan sec of state
Posted by marty | July 12, 2007 4:24 PM
The comments to this article are the very reason why we need Al Gore to run for president. When all else fails, attack the person on a personal level, and forget completely about policy. It has worked marvels for this administration.
Posted by Jeff | July 12, 2007 4:27 PM
I fully believe the next President of the USA will be a former Tennessee Senator pushed into the race by a popular groundswell.
Posted by Frank | July 12, 2007 4:29 PM
There is a minimum level of intelligence, and a minimum level of character and honesty, that is intrinsically required for a man to be worthy of consideration for the presidency of the United States. Mr. Bush did not meet it in 1999, when he first came to my attention as a candidate and, as a former Texan, I laughed at the absurdity of such candidacy. He did not meet it the next year, he did not meet in 2004, and he does meet this minimum today. There is, on the other hand, a maximum of these qualities that one has an historical right to expect in any presidential candidate. Mr. Gore has always EXCEEDED these maximum expectations. It would be a delight to cross party lines in his favor, to give the government of our country not just substance, but a chance for nobility.
Posted by Patrick Gunkel | July 12, 2007 4:37 PM
HA! HA! HA!
The Dems are in real trouble, but it seems they don't know it yet.
They mistakenly equate Bush's unpopularity with a weakening of conservative politics.
They're going to find out how wrong that assumption is.
Fred Thompson is going to squash any Dem in his path. Just watch.
Posted by haze | July 12, 2007 4:37 PM
I hope Gore enters the race if just to see all the right wing nuts get their panties all up in a bunch like they are in this thread.
Posted by TJ | July 12, 2007 4:39 PM
Oh, please, PLEASE let Gore run!!! What a mud-sling-fest it would be among him, Clinton, and Obama! How could he and Clinton attack each other and defend those attacks, having been co-workers in the same administration?! And Obama's star will fade soon once the functional illiterates of the left even come to realize the guy has no experience.
It's great the campaigning has started so early: People will quickly burn out and tire of these political narcisists by early '08 ... and all the more time to keep exposing them for the hypocrites they are! (Hey, Al, is your mama still singing that "Look For The Union Label" song to you at night as she did when you were a kid ... OF 27!!!)
Posted by John | July 12, 2007 4:43 PM
Now we have proof that global warming is real. All the hot air generated by it has escaped -- and been inhaled by all of these "Gore-ers." Remember, folks, this is the same guy who wanted to ban automobiles! A President on a mission of madness, especially one based upon junk science -- would be a very dangerous President indeed.
Posted by Ed | July 12, 2007 4:47 PM
Goracle! Goracle! GORACLE! GORACLE! GORACLE!!!!
Whats the matter with you people. He invented the Internet and Global Warming. I for one want to see what his next invention will be.
GORACLE! GORACLE! GORACLE!!!
Posted by blah boy | July 12, 2007 4:47 PM
PLEASE PLEASE RUN AL RUN
Posted by alan kaminsky | July 12, 2007 4:49 PM
YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE IN THE SINGLE GREATEST CATASTROPHIC EVENT MANKIND HAS EVER KNOWN, BECAUSE IN MY INFINITE WISDOM, I KNOW WHAT TEMPERATURE THE EARTH SHOULD BE!!!!! Now please buy my book entitled "An Assault on reason" What a dope...
Posted by David | July 12, 2007 4:49 PM
It appears that the Righties are peeing all over themselves. Is that fear that I smell?
Posted by equinox | July 12, 2007 4:51 PM
it is always funny to read the comments when drudge links to an article. it is always full of conservatives spouting typical unintelligent dribble.
you'd think from reading most of this that bush was somehow a success for the nation. you'd almost think that america is perfectly ready to go the same route. highly unlikely me thinks.
the dems aren't really much better these days.
it is obvious that gore has changed a lot as a person in recent years. most of his criticisms regarding either the environment or politics are squarely directed at both sides of aisle. he seems rather tired of politics, and the circus that it brings. the circus that too many commentators in this discussion seem to enjoy being sheepled in.
i think that gore should run again, but not so much for his environmental opinons as much as the amazingly thoughtful and bold political thought he has been writing about lately. this guy is saying a lot of things that make a whole lot of sense. anybody here actually read the man's words, or just defer to heavily biased clips from drudge report?
in my opinion, the best thing he could do to prove his recent more non-partisan view of the state of our american democracy would be to run as an independant. the democrats have as much baggage as the republicans do. i don't trust any of the parties, as they have all proven themselves to be disgusting opportunists with no soul.
Posted by pfi | July 12, 2007 4:53 PM
I hope he does run. He will lose .... again. And his running will surely irritate the Clintons and further divide the Democratic Party.
:-) Run Al, run.
Posted by Chris | July 12, 2007 4:55 PM
Run Al Gore, Run. Mr. Bush is a liar, cheat and a fraud. He and his stinking band of NeoCon thugs almost stole the country.
Posted by Fred | July 12, 2007 4:57 PM
Who needs Nader when you have Gore to dilute the lefty vote?
Posted by bd | July 12, 2007 4:58 PM
The outdated electoral system, referred to by Dan is why we are a Republic. Without it the people that live in less populated areas would not have a voice in our democratic process. The people that want to change our process are the same ones that forget this country was founded on the premise of religious freedom not the premise of religious autonomy. Al is an interesting person and I can not imagine him entering the bid for the White House when he has made so much outside of the political sector. Every time I think about his crusade for the environment, I keep thinking how he made the first $25mm was by strip mining Zinc.
Posted by JeffinMiami | July 12, 2007 4:59 PM
It is sad, sad SAD when your candidate field is so poor that you want Al Gore to run for the nomination. Here's the really scary thing: out of Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, John Edwards and Al Gore, who is the most conservative/least nuttiest?
That's right, BILLARY is the least worst of the Democrat contenders. I think I'm going to be very, very sick . . .
Posted by Ultra-C | July 12, 2007 4:59 PM
If Al Gore is the answer... it must have been a really stupid question !
Posted by 72 Vette | July 12, 2007 5:00 PM
if gore runs i'll save money - the republicans will win in a landslide and therefore i won't need to donate anything.
Posted by Anonymous | July 12, 2007 5:02 PM
if gore runs i'll savemoney - the republicans will win in a landslide and therefore i won't need to donate anything.
Posted by Anonymous | July 12, 2007 5:02 PM
Gore is going to face massive lawsuits when it comes out that not only is the "climate change crisis" bad science, but also that Gore knew so before his first slide show. How embarrassing it would be for him to be our president.
Posted by Jeff | July 12, 2007 5:03 PM
Al Gore is a freaking idiot and so is anyone who would vote for him
Posted by David Dunnington | July 12, 2007 5:04 PM
Yea, for Al. I hope he gets in to the race. But how will he pay himself for all the carbon offsets he is going to generate with all that useless CO2 he puts out per os?
Posted by gopher | July 12, 2007 5:06 PM
Scrap the Electoral College? I guess instead of recounts in 2 counties in 1 state, you want recounts in 100 counties in 50 states. Talk about a nightmare scenario. Get real. Our founding fathers had it right the first time.
Also, if Gore gets the Nobel Prize for his environmental work, he can share it with his good drinking buddy Yassir Arrafat when the world discovers Global Warming is a big hoax. Solar storms and cosmic rays are the likely culprit, not CO2 emissions. I wonder if Gore will be around to eat himself into oblivion again when the truth whacks him in the face? Oh, but the truth already has whacked him in the face;it just was conveniently set aside, because it didn't support his conclusion.
Posted by Shawn | July 12, 2007 5:06 PM
"He won once, he just didn't get inaugurated."
This is a testament to the nature of the Democrat party: villainous, delusional, or both.
Could it be that Gore supporters were stuffing ballot boxes in Palm Beach, FL (if not in other places as well)? Could it be that they were counting votes for Gore from discarded ballots where a voter mistakenly punched a chad next to a candidate they didn't meant to vote for, or in many cases, failed to even punch the chad at all? Could it be that some democrats were voting under the names of deceased people? Could it be that democrats in northern states were driving around in vans, picking up homeless folks, and offering them cigarettes and booze if they voted for Gore? Could it be that a democrat Congressman was pulled over during this time and the police officer found a vote-a-matic in his trunk? Could it be that complaints from democrats over the type of ballot used were a sham, since it was a democrat who proposed their use prior to the election, and they were such a useful tool in the recount fiasco? Could it be that absentee ballots from the military, which democrats have only since claimed to support, were thrown out and not counted due to their potential for Bush votes?
Could it be that Gore knew all this and God only knows what else was going on, and that was why he kept demanding recount after recount, none of which he ever won, though the number of Gore votes seemed to somehow increase slightly every time?
I think it is a tremendous show of mercy on the part of conservatives that we did not arrest or at least conduct criminal investigations on an awful lot of people for election fraud, including Gore himself. Every time I hear some liberal whine about how "Gore won" or "Bush was not elected", I know full good and well that I'm hearing the truth inverted 180 degrees.
Posted by Chet | July 12, 2007 5:08 PM
I am a democrat and I'm upset with Congress. I don't understand why there are no overrides on GW's vetoes and why they just did not fund the war. I would love to see Al Gore run and Wesley Clark or John Edwards run for VP.
Posted by sher | July 12, 2007 5:13 PM
billybob, we in TN know that Al is not a Tennessean. He spent the first 22 yrs of his life in DC when his father was in the House & Senate. Al then was in DC from 1976-2000 when he was in the House, Senate & VP. He has spent much more of his life in DC than in TN.
Brian, a small correction. Al's net worth was much less than $25 million when he left office. His net worth now includes $30 million of Google stock he received as an advisor, and several million in Apple stock as a board member.
Posted by Andrew | July 12, 2007 5:19 PM
Al Gore is like cheap work boot: stiff and uncomfortable when new, pliable and yielding when it should be strong in mid-life, flabby, worn and weak in old age. Gore has never been, nor will he ever be a true leader. He was just the guy at the front for a time...nothing more.
His only news making ability these days is to continually try to look like he is marching in front of the Global Warming parade. A parade that he did not organize, ill understands, is incapable of leading and that he cannot finish. Global Warming ultimately is not a foundation on which he can win an election or drive an administration.
Those in the "draft Gore" movement should do both themselves and Gore a favor and let him fade into obscurity with some dignity.
Throw the old boot away before you stub your toe through one of the holes. Get yourselves a sturdy new pair. You will scarcely remember them/him in a years time.
Posted by K2 | July 12, 2007 5:20 PM
Run all Run, give us Republicans a chance in 08.
Posted by Matt | July 12, 2007 5:20 PM
Funny how biased the responses are, but the anti-Gore comments here are running 84%, whereas in national polls his favorability ratings are in the high 60's, higher than any Democratic OR Republican candidate.
Posted by rhanks | July 12, 2007 5:20 PM
Just for the record, folks, Big Al did score more raw votes nation-wide than did Mr Bush. I personally would like to see Dennis (the mouse) Kucinich get the nomination.
Posted by Steven Lazzerini | July 12, 2007 5:20 PM
i think you global warming fans should sell
your cars and ride bicycles - so there would be
more and cheaper gas for the rest of us
Posted by david | July 12, 2007 5:25 PM
Al Gore is like a cheap work boot: stiff and uncomfortable when new, pliable and yielding when it should be strong in mid-life, flabby, worn and weak in old age. Gore has never been, nor will he ever be a true leader. He was just the guy at the front for a time...nothing more.
His only news making ability these days is to continually try to look like he is marching in front of the Global Warming parade. A parade that he did not organize, ill understands, is incapable of leading and that he cannot finish. Global Warming ultimately is not a foundation on which he can win an election or drive an administration.
Those in the "draft Gore" movement should do both themselves and Gore a favor and let him fade into obscurity with some dignity.
Throw the old boot away before you stub your toe through one of the holes. Get yourselves a sturdy new pair. You will scarcely remember them/him in a years time.
Posted by KZ | July 12, 2007 5:26 PM
None of the current candidates is worth electing.
Neither is Gore or Thompson. This country is in BIG trouble.
The only man running for the job is Hillary. Problem is she should be running for Putin's job not Bush's.
Posted by Rob | July 12, 2007 5:28 PM
wow...conservatives are one scary, scared, oblivious bunch of hate-mongers...and bush has done exactly what for this country? wake up
Posted by njboss | July 12, 2007 5:31 PM
Geez, can't we have 'none of the above' as a choice on the ticket so we can make these jokers on both sides come up with some viable options for president? Romney, Guiliani, Clinton, Obama, Edwards, etc. None of them are sound choices, and adding Gore to the fray doesn't make it any better for sure. The best candidate I've seen so far is Ron Paul and unfortunately, the right wing of my party will never nominate him and he'll run indy with no chance of winning even though he is the closest we'll find to a true constitutionalist conservative. Sad situtation that our elections have become such narrow-minded circuses.
Posted by Cher | July 12, 2007 5:31 PM
SIGH. As a fiscal conservative, a social liberal, and as someone under thirty, I am so sick and tired of both left and right. Almost all of these comments are some of the most ignorant dribble I've ever seen. Anyone who chooses party over country, who actually believes in the rhetoric that is being spewed by both sides right now is not worthy of an opinion. It's extremely discouraging to see so many people, so many people who are supposed to be older, wiser, and more patient be so patently wrong and ignorant on almost everything. I hated Clinton. I hate Bush. I hate almost all of the presidential candidates out there aside from Ron Paul, Mike Gravel, and occasionally Obama (no fight in him usually). It's this continuation of left/right politics that is destroying this country. The thing that stikes alot of people about Gore, myself included, is how he has learned from the last eight years. There is an assault on rational, reasoned denate and on logic in general. It's the type of crap all of you are saying that is destroying us, infiltrating congress, and now the lives of americans. WAKE UP PEOPLE! How about electing someone who actually carries out the will of the people, not a [expletive] cheerleader that you will support because the support the one issue you care about. Protect the right of your brothers and sisters to disagree with you, to live differently than you, and to live as freely as you would want. Only then are you a true patriot. Not by supporting a losing war, not by supporting the taxation of Americans' labor, not by endorsing or disagreeing with global warming, but by REMOVING GOVERNMENT FROM THE LIVES OF AMERICANS SO THAT THEY MAY DO AS THEY PLEASE. Seriously, it's heartbreeaking to watch the older generations mutilate the fabric of this country because they want to be part of a "team".
Posted by john | July 12, 2007 5:33 PM
Sure, I'd love to see him run again - he's a proven loser - but why would he? He's a media hero - he's making millions - he doesn't have to prove anything he's saying - it's just all being lapped up by acclaimation.
BUT FOLKS -- The status of his kid, or of Giuliani's kid, or of anyone's kid(s) should be off the table. Any of us who manage to raise happy and successful kids are darned lucky (and) blessed, and bad can happen to any of us - at any time. So in that area, lets stay off the high horse.
Posted by Missourimule | July 12, 2007 5:38 PM
His high handed hysterical antics over the environment combined with our fearless leader's failure to manage our budget and the immigration problem says to me it is high time that a third party with a real platform and sincere candidates stepped up.
Posted by Ben | July 12, 2007 5:39 PM
Gore is an embarrassment to our beloved state.
The fickle finger of fate has been so unkind
in having this awkward living, walking error
that personifies confused predicament as a
citizen from our treasured Tennessee.
How I wish for him a very long healthy and wealthy
and never to be heard and seen again in public retirement - - STARTING IMMEDIATELY!!!!
Posted by brennus | July 12, 2007 5:42 PM
I'd like to see America begin to emerge from the Left/Right divide. All of us have points worth making, and the smugness on each extreme strikes me as counterproductive.
I say we elect a leader that is not from either Bushworld OR Clintonworld. Let's start over, shall we?
Let's enter a new phase of cooperation and tolerance of one another's ideas. I guarantee it will make it less frustrating for all the reasonable people out there just dying for our collective sanity to return.
Let's turn our back on the Rush Limbaughs, the Sean Penns and the all the other partisan, hateful hacks. No matter where we stand on the political spectrum, let's stand together to recognize these people for what they are: smug, hateful, judgmental and divisive.
Long live America.
Posted by BradleyJay | July 12, 2007 5:43 PM
Al Gore is an honorable man and by far the most qualified person to hold the office of President of the United States.
Posted by Marshall | July 12, 2007 5:43 PM
Al Gore is the finest candidate the USA has. We would be so blessed to have him lead us out of the nightmare this Bush administration has gotten us in. Republicans spend alot of time slinging mud with no substance. I urge you all to learn more about Al Gore; he is the clear choice if you just take the time to get past the Republican propaganda spin machine and seek the truth, for real. you will find the great things that have lead 100,000 people to sign a draft Gore petition. Please wake up America.
Posted by Todd | July 12, 2007 5:44 PM
I am a long time conservative Texan Republican and voted straight ticket R. in the last two general elections and have never voted for a Democrat for president, and I've been voting since Reagan's first term. The one thing I hear from my fellow conservative friends is that they're willing to give Gore a shot. So am I. G.W. Bush is NOT a conservative. Neither is Gore but we know where he stands. You might not believe in global warming (I don't know if it's true or not or if we could even stop it) but who could argue that weaning ourselves off the Arab-Exxon teat is a bad thing?
I've learned my lesson. No more straight ticket voting. I'm voting for Gore if he runs, writing in somebody - maybe Gore - if he doesn't, and keeping my two Texas Republican Senators because they stood up to Bush and McCain on the amnesty bill. My message to my fellow conservatives and a lesson we all should have learned: Don't vote for someone just because they call themselves a Republican and never vote for someone who is obviously incompetent. Make the RNC give us quality candidates, if not this time then the next.
Posted by Don | July 12, 2007 5:47 PM
SIGH. I am in the same boat as John. Well put. I would like to add that we are too divided. The "with us or against us" mentality has pervaded every aspect of the political rhetoric and it is only hurting us and everyone else in the world.
Posted by Mike | July 12, 2007 5:50 PM
How about a Ron Paul/Al Gore 08 Ticket. Let's unify out country!
Posted by EA | July 12, 2007 5:50 PM
This would be great, with Alphonso as president, he could finish the job Bush started. Sending the rest of the jobs to China and other 3rd world countries. It would be a lock or "Slam Dunk" once he signed his silly global warming legislation.
Gore is as crooked as Cheney and or Bush or any corrupt politician. Mr Gore while telling you we must act now on the saving the planet, has been very busy with Goldman Sachs setting up his very own personal Alternative Energy hedge fund. I guess it's not enough this jerk has to ruin lives and financial wealth of many Americans, he's going to profit from this.
I'll vote for him! NOT!
P.S. I don't work for an oil company, I just spend my spare time researching the lies Gore tells. Most of the rubbish in his film is false.
Posted by Dogma | July 12, 2007 5:53 PM
If he enters the race, we will once again have a replay of the dumb and dumber choice of 2000 versus any of the republican candidates. Who loses? America. when nobody really gives detailed explanations of how they are going to do anything! Universal Health Care Now!
Posted by Santa | July 12, 2007 5:55 PM
Excelsior!
Posted by John Kowalik | July 12, 2007 6:04 PM
Yes Gore, please run. This time it will not be so close you will lose in a landslide. How do these people make a living and take care of themselves. It is obvious that they will believe anything if they believe him. Gore has to be the biggest liar to ever walk this GREEN earth.
Posted by Neal Ramsey | July 12, 2007 6:10 PM
Al Gore, the Harold Stassen of our era.
Posted by Burke | July 12, 2007 6:17 PM
Santa, go to France where 80% of their people have private supplemental insurance to "fix" the problems in their universal health care systems that costs 15% of the GNP. I hope the socialists at least give us a choice between private and government run medical care. I will choose private every time.
Posted by James | July 12, 2007 6:18 PM
What are all these people going to say when Al doesn't run and they realize what he is doing right now just might be geniune?? I'm no tree hugger, BUT my 2007 F-150 gets close to the same gas mileage as my old 1998 F-150 and the gas for it is 3x the cost!! Who is lying to who???
Posted by JAC | July 12, 2007 6:22 PM
Mais oui, mon ami, Al. Allez, allez, allez, s'il vous plait!
Posted by Pierre LeVote | July 12, 2007 6:23 PM
This man gave us a 36 day election night because he is a sore loser when he was young according to a Tennessee radio station before the last election when he was running-- he took out a cyclone fence going 115 mph as young college guy and now his son got arrested for going 100 mph using drugs this is why Al flunked out of Divinity School. And it's why he didn't get a law degree according to his college room mate. W has been blamed for being stupid now who is really stupid a guy who thinks we're going to die from Global Warming. W has a MBA from Yale and actually served in the National Guard. Gore was given a body guard by his daddy a U.S. Senator for his 90 day stint in Vietnam. JW
Posted by Jerry White | July 12, 2007 6:24 PM
I hate when Drudgereport readers comment. They are like attack dogs going anywhere One Guy sends them!!
RUN AL RUN!!!
Posted by JACS | July 12, 2007 6:26 PM
C'mon, we all know he is going to run. Gore and Fred Thompson are both playing the waiting game to see who declares first. The longer they wait, the better for Fred because Fred is building a platform on honesty and integrity while Gore is proving himself to be an elitIst and a fraud.
Posted by raybojabo | July 12, 2007 6:28 PM
run al run...do it cus we need you to!
Posted by marcie marks | July 12, 2007 6:33 PM
Al Gore did win the popular vote in 2000, and I assume all the people who voted for him then will vote for him now. Now the people who voted for Bush in 2000 are a different situation. The moderates probably would vote for Gore. Some will stay home, except the hardcore base. I can see Al Gore winning in an environrment that is just toxic to republicans right now. Thoughts?
Posted by Anonymous | July 12, 2007 6:51 PM
Since many of you had to bring up the 2000 election, please read:
BANANA HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
Mine eyes have seen the fury in the eyes of mad Al Gore
He is having temper tantrums 'cause the votes for Bush are more,
He has loosed his preying lawyers with his terrible loud roar.
His pride is marching on.
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
His pride is marching on.
I have seen him stomping into the Democratic camps
of Florida's voter precincts where counters' hands developed cramps.
Voter intent is seen in ballots held up to bright and glaring lamps
The light is shining through.
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
The light is shining through.
Recount after recount George W. Bush had always won
Even though the election is over, it isn't really done.
Gore's lawyers filed lawsuits and the action has begun.
Al Gore is pressing on.
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
Al Gore is pressing on.
Butterfly ballots aren't confusing nor are they even bad.
Yet dimpled ballots were counted which is very, very sad.
"Swinging", "loose" and "pregnant" define a liberal chad!
Don't give non-votes to Gore.
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
Surely, surely, Gore's the loser!
Don't give non-votes to Gore.
"Every vote must be counted." But what Gore really means is this:
"All votes for me can multiply like barley loaves and fish."!
Becoming president now is just an Al Gore Christmas wish.
Al Gore should now concede.
Surely, surely Gore's the loser,
An election law abuser.
Surely, surely Gore's the loser.
Bush was certified!
Posted by Awkins | July 12, 2007 6:54 PM
algore put this country through a month or more of angst by prolonging the inevitable. HE LOST! PERIOD! The U.S.Consitution worked exactly as the Founding Fathers intended for those of you who still whine. At least Richard Nixon conceded when the votes were in and Nixon put it behind him after the 1960 National Election was stolen in Illinois.
algore 'invented' the Internet and now he is pushing global warming -- a highly suspect issue. Gimme a break! Gimme thoroughly vetted new blood with integrity. AND, Obama ain't it. He has serious character issues such as running away from unpaid parking tickets in Mass. In Ohio, he could not get his driver's license renewed and his name would be in the papers as a scofflaw. Nice from a LAWYER! ARGH!
Posted by Rod Miller | July 12, 2007 6:54 PM
Al Gore's character, integrity and leadership have stood the test of time, and only refined and deepened with age. He is the only candidate for me and I am devoting all of my free and waking hours toward the efforts to place him on the ballot so that he may reclaim his place as our president.
Posted by kerry lusignan | July 12, 2007 7:02 PM
Kerry said when asked if Gore should run in 2008. "He'd clearly be a very credible candidate if he decided to do it. He won once, he just didn't get inaugurated."
Kerry must not understand that one does not win The Presidency by popular vote. One might think that a senator should know such a thing.