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July 30, 2003
Kerry | Kerry's Problem

With Dean's popularity rising the other candidates are feeling more pressure to be Dean-like. Chris Suellentrop writes at Slate.com:

At the two Kerry events I attended this past weekend, voters kept encouraging the Massachusetts senator, in effect, to be more like Howard Dean. After Friday's Kerry speech, a voter walked up to him and told him the Democrats must quit being passive. "Oh, I'm not passive," Kerry soothed. Today, he does something similar when an angry voter complains about the Leave No Child Behind bill. "Oh, I am so furious about it," Kerry says matter-of-factly. These are questions Dean wouldn't even be asked.
While there are surely virtues in trying to take on the strengths of your opponent, there are also risks. No one wants to be an Al Gore.



Posted by Mike Van Winkle at July 30, 2003 08:03 AM | TrackBack
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Any of these guys would be so lucky to be Al Gore. In fact, Al Gore is in an incredible position to jump into the mix right now. He can automatically garner the angry Florida lib vote without running too far left to get elected. He’s got his national security bonifides and he’s generally viewed as a social and economic ‘moderate’ (compared to the current crop). Keep your eyes open the next couple months. The only hurdle Gore has right now is prying the money out of the Clintons (via McCauliff). Gore would throw a major monkey wrench into Hillary’s program should he run (much less be elected). There could well be a civil war in the democratic party.

Posted by: Mark Buehner at July 30, 2003 11:49 AM

Why stop there? Have Jimmy Carter run, hell, he’s got one term left anyway. Hillary’d be fine with it, since she wouldn’t have to put up with his sanctimonious crap in 2008. Carter’d probably track higher than any of the current Dixie cups.

National Malaise. Catch it!!

Posted by: torpedo_eight at July 30, 2003 09:47 PM

LoL! carter for Pres.
4 more years of peanut jokes

Posted by: Bubba at July 31, 2003 05:40 PM

Sure, Carter. The one who brought us Desert One. Shouldn’t he be supervising elections in some Third World country?

Posted by: Limpet at July 31, 2003 09:59 PM

He doesn’t have time to run; Too busy winning Nobel Peace Prizes for undermining the capitalist country whose system of government allowed him to be rich.

Posted by: Seth at August 1, 2003 03:26 AM

Carter never met a dictator he didn’t worship. I’ve got this picture of him and Castro standing together at a recent ceremony and circulated it among my friends titled “The 2004 Ticket”.

When he had the Romanian butcher Ceausescu in for a state dinner back in ‘75, Nicolae was so impressed by Carter’s gushy, effusive suck-up praise that he had the translator up until 3 in the morning reading the speech back to him. Jimmy’s winning 4 year formula of rewarding our enemies while punishing our allies, together with decimating our human intel network around the world marked the worst presidency of the 20th century (until, of course Clinton).

History, of course, will remember Clinton as the guy with his head stuck between the Bushes.

Posted by: torpedo_eight at August 2, 2003 12:40 AM

I remember seeing a poster someplace back when Reagan was on the road to beating Carter. It showed Omar Torrijos with a cigar and that “we have ways of making you cooperate” expression, and read,
“Reelect Carter, the best president Panama ever had.”

Posted by: Seth at August 2, 2003 05:29 PM

yeah his problem is he looks like a horse.
at least they have to reach to cartoonize bush.
with kerry they just have to draw him as he is

Posted by: gijoe at August 3, 2003 11:52 AM

gijoe

“… he looks like a horse.”

That means they’d depict him better if they drew him from behind.

Posted by: Seth at August 3, 2003 11:52 PM

there’s several movements sprouting about to Draft Al Gore for the Dem candidacy and they’re incredibly organized…..

Draft Gore: http://www.draftgore.com/

Newspaper Article: “Draft Gore’ efforts step up across New Hampshire”
PORTSMOUTH - The field of potential Democratic nominees could increase by one shortly.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/08082003/news/43747.htm
The Draft Gore 2004 Committee officially launched its activities in New Hampshire Thursday, by mailing letters to 147 town party chairmen across the state and announcing a write-in campaign for the former vice president.”

the following url’s are as well Draft Gore sites…..

AL Gore 04: http://www.algore04.com/news/
Elect Al Gore 04: http://www.electgore04.com/
Al Gore Support Center: http://www.algoresupportcenter.com/
Gore 2004: http://www.gore2004us.com/

and then there’s the petition……

Al Gore 2004 petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/Gore04/petition.html

should you know of anyone who would be interested in joining the movement please continue to forward…..

Posted by: elena at August 11, 2003 06:09 PM

I consider Dean unelectable. He’s like a Dukakis/Nader type trying to move to the center. Yes he has plenty of angry voters behind him but he’s Bush and Karl Rove’s favorite choice. That is why Bushies are really starting to push for Dean.

Wan to beat Bush? Kerry-Clark is unbeatable. Two SIlver Stars versus the AWOL draft-dodging aircraft carrier poseur. If that fails, bring back Al Gore. He’d have fire in his belly this time, and he deserves it. Gore-Clark, Kerry-Clark, either one beats Bush. dean loses no matter who he rusn with

Posted by: bill nelson at November 8, 2003 07:54 PM

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Posted by: Malver Aaron at December 10, 2003 07:34 PM

Al gore is dumb lol.

Posted by: Nonya at January 25, 2004 09:01 PM

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