June 29, 2006
jk Endorses VP Gore
I don't know that I get to endorse a Democrat for the 2008 Nomination, the Internet pundit charter is pretty ambiguous on this. But I very much hope it is Vice President Gore
First, it would make a lot of leftists happy and I am all about making people happy. Seriously, the left is disenchanted with Senator Clinton and I am not hoping for millions to hold their nose as they vote (even though I may). To that end, here's Martin Peretz on The Plank at TNR, admitting "OK, I'm a Gore Flack."
I confess: I did buy five copies of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. But that doesn't explain why the book is on nearly every one of the important best-seller lists in the country. This coming Sunday, it's number one on The New York Times paperback best-seller list. Last week, it was already number one on the best-seller lists of The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Denver Post. Book Sense, the weekly report of the Independent Book Sellers Association, also has it in the top place.Do I think this should worry Hillary Clinton? Yes. Not because she hasn't written a book that was on the best-seller list. She may have even written two: It Takes a Village and Living History. But let's face facts. In contrast to Gore's writing his own three books, she didn't really write any of hers herself. And, frankly, they are not serious books anyway, although It Takes a Village is a warm and fuzzy volume purporting to be about children's policy. All you have to do is to take a look at her website to see how scattered her steely mind really is.
Beyond a happy Marty, and many friends who feel the same, I yearn for an ideological election. Senator Clinton would moderate her positions as her handlers dictated to secure 270 Electoral Votes. She would not likely call for socialized medicine, she'd likely be more of a Senator Kerry: hard to pin down for an explicit debate.
VP Gore would ameliorate a little but would "let his freak flag fly." (I use that as a compliment, by the way, as did Jimi Hendrix.) We could discuss Global Warming, and the War on Terror among some number of candidates with explicit positions. Nobody could tell you the difference between the Kerry and Bush Iraq positions in 2004, though most harbored a suspicion.
Go Gore! Let's have a real election. And please oh please oh please have Secretary Rice run. I don't want him to win or anything.