Gore Boosts Dean With Endorsement, Eyes 2008 Battle Against Hillary

[Terri]

Gore Boosts Dean With Endorsement, Eyes 2008 Battle Against Hillary

By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
December 9, 2003

NEW YORK (Talon News) -- Former Democrat Vice President Al Gore will publicly endorse former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean in his bid for the 2004 Democrat nomination for president on Tuesday in Harlem and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where a key Democrat caucus is scheduled to take place on January 19, 2004.

The Dean campaign sent out a press release on Monday stating that they would be making a "major campaign announcement" on Tuesday.

Gore, who lost to President George W. Bush in the historic 2000 election and had been considered by many to be the leading candidate for the Democrat nomination in 2004 before backing out last December, will appear with Dean at several campaign stops today and will provide the frontrunner for the Democrat Party nomination a dominating advantage over the other eight Democrat candidates running for president.

As reported by Talon News on Friday, a new Zogby and National Annenberg Election Survey poll both reveal that former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has become a one-man show in the 2004 Democrat presidential race by outpolling his opponents by more than 30 percent in the key primary state of New Hampshire.

More (http://www.gopusa.com/news/2003/december/1209_gore_endorses_d ean.shtml)

[pcyrdad]

Several questions arise here...

1. Could he be trying to ensure President Bush's victory next year so he can start campaigning against an undetermined GOP candidate in 2008?

2. Is he that disillusioned after eight years working with http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/witch.gif that he would consider running against her, mano a mano?

3. Does Lieberman finally realize he was just moral window-dressing for Gore's 2000 bid?

4. Will this deepen the divide in the Democrat party between the "Clintonites" and the "Deanites"?

5. Does this mean that Dean will start sounding like one of the adults in Peanuts when he speaks, too?

[jonessa2]

Things are just getting more and more bizaare. *I think this shows how deep-seated the ill-feelings are between bil and gore.

Here's one for you.
She denies it at every turn. Democrats hope it's all bluff. So will Hillary run? (http://news.independent.co. uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=4714 73)
<span style='color:navy'>By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
09 December 2003
...... (http://news.independent.co. uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=4714 73).Insofar as the persona ever existed, Hillary the rabid liberal and peacenik is no more. But, for her left-wing constituency, the legend lingers. Less noticed, she has moved to fill the national security gap in her resumé by joining the Senate Armed Services Committee, where she works hard, sometimes in alliance with Republicans, even with conservatives like South Carolina's freshman Senator Lindsey Graham (who, as a Congressman, was among the most fervent supporters of the impeachment of her husband)....... (http://news.independent.co. uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=4714 73)

Mrs Clinton can be as trenchantly critical of Republicans as anyone. But she is quietly metamorphosing into a Democratic moderate, whose appeal extends into the centre of the political spectrum. All seems geared to a White House bid in 2008. But her most impatient supporters have not lost heart.
More (http://news.independent.co. uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=4714 73)</span>

[lpjortner]

How come Gore can tell us with such certainty what was right to do in Iraq, but could not muster either the courtesy or courage to make a phone call to Joe Lieberman? This is the latest error in judgment by Gore.

All he had to do was call Lieberman and tell him: Joe, I don't see your campaign going anywhere, I feel the need to go with Dean. Sorry.&quot; and then listen to Lieberman whine a bit, say &quot;I feel your pain but I gotta go.&quot; and hang up. But this is not the way this guy has ever operated. He can't take responsibility for this endorsement, he can't take responsibility for hotel rooms trashed by his entourage but this &quot;moral lion&quot; thinks people will seriously listen to him lecture Bush on Iraq.

Gore now has forfeited any vestige of sympathy that people had for him as the disappointed party in 2000 (which wasn't much to begin with since he mired himself in this selective FL recount nonsense by his own design) and henceforth will be known for his betrayal of Lieberman without so much as a call.

He has punched his one-way ticket to Palookaville with this fiasco. As for Dean, I still don't believe he'll necessarily be nominated, despite anything the media says. If the numbers hold in the South and Sharpton or Edwards win, Gephardt wins some Midwest or other primaries (which he well could when Lieberman gets out of this race), then we can get a contested convention.

Anyone, even Sharpton, may wind up as a power broker with enough chips to extract favors from Dean in exchange for not going to second ballot and having Hilary swoop in as compromise candidate. Dean might also gaffe or scandal his way down in the polls yet given the recent statements and the Judicial Watch suit and whatever else comes down the pike.

[markinthedark]

pcyrdad, yes to all. To all goodnight.

[jonessa2]

Is Gore Dean's Trojan horse set up by http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/witch.gif

[markinthedark]

Ever see rats fighting over a choice bit of garbage? This endorsement thing means ALGORE&quot;sic&quot; wants to chair the CDNC. ALGORE&quot;sic&quot; is unemployed and unemployable, nothing like the party chair of the party that means corruption to rake it in.