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TNR Editor-in-chief Martin Peretz comes out for VP Al Gore: Why Al Gore is the Democrat's best bet for 2008

I was first for Al Gore for president when he ran in the primaries in 1988. He lost to Michael Dukakis in that year's suicide of the Democratic Party, an ignominious campaign by a smug and utterly disconnected governor from the only state that had voted for George McGovern. Jesse Jackson was the celebrity candidate, with his hip-hop language that some patronizing folk will still tell you is eloquence. Had Al Gore been the nominee in 1988, he likely would have defeated George Herbert Walker Bush, and the nation would have been saved the grim experience of his unlikely and uncomprehending dynasty.

Yet the Kos Kids cannot tell the difference between TNR and The Weekly Standard. The Weekly Standard has yet to make a formal endorsement in '08, but I have a hunch it ain't gonna be Gore...

Politics Posted by jk at June 22, 2006 5:48 PM