I read this on RealClearPolitics.com. Very disappointing. Why in the world would they publish this **** next to legitimate work by pundits like George Will and David Brooks?

Your article about Gore was right on the money.He could enter the fray a day before the first primary and take over if he wanted to.Let's keep him with Leo DeCRAPrio and cross our fingers that Gore remains stuck on stupid.

I just read your article about Al Gore. I want him to run too but I do not think you are being fair here. I think he would win too, but you have to put things in perspective. The democratic candidates are not as bad as you say they are. And your assessment of Rudy is wrong.. you have him winning the nomination.. dude have you seen the most recent polls.. he is slipping big time ... Next time you write an article on this topic make sure that you are not bias ... it makes for a bad read when its so one sided... That is fox news job, leave it to them. Hopefully though Al gore does run ... But I think we need to see the whole picture here.. The left is not ignoring him .. in fact we are screaming for him to enter and he is really ignorning us.

Al Gore? Have you rally spent ant time-any- studying Al Gore? Did you miss his weird behavior while running for president? His absurd claims-including his movie? His current stance to demonize anyone who disagrees with his global warming schtick and refusal to debate anyone on the topic is simply a continuation of his modus operandi that he's practiced for years. I must say it does warm the heart to have the current crop of contenders presented as Lillaputians verus the Goracle. In three words Al Gore "an empty suit".

What are we doing here speaking about Rudy in terms of inevitability? Do you not read the news or follow the polls? That's just one of many reasons why this article is garbage.

AL GORE FOR PRESIDENT EH?

SEND ME SOME OF THE S___ YOU'RE SMOKING.

Dude, you forgot to mention a key Gore accomplishment -- the invention of the internet.

Nice post. I am a conservative also, but personally, I think Hillary is unbeatable. She gets, I figure, 75-80% of the female vote, 95% of the Black vote, 85% of the Hispanic, Arab, Hindu, Asian, etc vote.
Who is left to vote for Republicans?

I just wanted to tell you I thought your "Al Gore is the Democrats' Best Hope" posted on RCP, was not only eloquent but really true as far as the Democratic Party candidates ....not sure about Rudy though!!

I think Rudy has the experience ....but I fear what is in his closet and if Hillary is the candidate ....we will find out about it all before Nov 08 !!

Nice article ...my compliments to you !!

Seth:

Your article, "The Best Hope for the Democrats is Al Gore" is based on wishful thinking. Al Gore is an elitist. You must suffer from short-term memory loss or selective reading or listening habits about Al's history:

· Al Gore has been associated with Jose Cabrera, a convicted cocaine smuggler in which they have their pictures taken together.
· Howard Glicken, a long-time fundraiser for Al Gore, has been convicted of illegal fund raising. He raised $2 million for Clinton-Gore and the DNC in 1996.
· Franklin Haney is a Tennessee real estate developer and longtime Gore fundraiser was trying to get the FCC to move its headquarters to a development of his called "The Portals." He was also a guest on Air Force One during 1995-6. Haney was a generous donor. He was indicted in November 1998 for 42 counts of illegal campaign contributions to the Clinton-Gore campaign between 1992 and late 1995.
· Gore appeared at a Buddhist temple at what was obviously a fundraiser, though technically it was called something else for legal reasons. The criminal part is that the temple gave monks money to reimburse them for donations to Gore and the Democrats. That is illegal of course for the temple, but not the politician unless you can prove that they knew about the reimbursement.

No such evidence has popped up, though some of the players from the Clinton/Gore illegal foreign donations scandal are involved. These darker connections haven\'t been pinned down yet; given the relatively small amount of money involved, and severe risks of knowingly arranging for reimbursed donations, it seems unlikely that Gore campaign officials would take the risk.

The reason this scandal got so much attention was Gore's ridiculous weaseling about it. He claimed that he didn't know it was a fundraiser (when various memos showed that he clearly did) and then kept changing his story. It is similar to Gore's illegal phone calls issue; not necessarily a huge deal by itself, but Gore's response under crisis shows that he learned one of Clinton's worst traits -- that "didn't inhale" kind of weaseling when he's under fire.
· The other widely publicized Al Gore scandal has to do with the many fundraising phone calls he made from his official residence. The calls themselves are not that big a deal -- most congressman do the same, they just don't live in a government-owned building -- but two bad things are clear from all of this. First, Gore has cheapened the vice presidency (as Clinton has cheapened the presidency) by taking relentless fundraising another step further, eroding another ethical standard.

There's no reason to expect anything different if he's elected president. Second, he once again showed his Clintonesque weaseling side, in his now famous statement that "There is no controlling legal authority" saying that the phone calls were illegal (in other words, different courts ruled differently, and the ones in his area didn't say it was illegal.) That evasive, self-excusing attitude seems to be his standard response under pressure, and that's not leadership.

Worse yet, when pressed about a memo indicating that he was at a meeting where using the money as "hard money contributions" -- which is strictly illegal -- instead of soft money, he said that he didn't remember hearing that, and that he may have been in the bathroom because he drank a lot of iced tea at these meeting. Not only is this evasive, it's a really WEAK evasion. Environmental Trendiness (and Hypocrisy)

In the past, Al Gore has made his environmental positions a big part of his message, notably in his book "Earth in the Balance", which sold well. We don't critique candidates' policy positions, but some of that may come back to haunt him by making him look extreme, trendy or hypocritical.

Gore runs the risk of being shown up as a hypocrite, the way Mike Dukakis was in 1998 after Boston Harbor's pollution problem was exposed.

You can believe whatever you want, but, your reality of who he this charlatan is, is totally different than mine.

I haven't stopped laughing. You've got to be kidding. What? What Democratss don't like the current crop of morons running for President of the U.S.?
These are folks who will pull America off the world stage and blame the consequences on Bush and expect everybody to applaud! Give me a break.

Mr. Swirsky, I do not know what planet you live on but on the one I inhabit, Al Gore is a mentally unstable lunatic who for years now has spent his time perpetrating a fraud, a scam, on the world and gotten rich doing it. He is thoroughly deranged, a hypocrite and a narcissist. How anyone can suggest he would be a viable president is beyond me. You need to read up on the guy.