More Al Gore?

It's the moment when pundits demand action: "drop out, Hillary!" when the consequences of Madness, March madness, turn on us, "breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." TS Eliot my friend, we know how you feel. April is the cruelest month, and this April promises to be crueler than most. The two Democratic campaigns have started attacking each other with words of bloody weapons, while GOP John McCain is moving ahead in some national polls. But it appears that Hillary can only win with nastiness: if Super Delegates abandon Obama and turn to her masses.

Everything is out of control. Some people argue that Hillary Clinton is actually pursuing a GOP-style race plot, questioning Obama's relationship with Rev. Wright. But it's important that she questions such connections of Obama's past. And Americans are beginning to realize just how deleterious that relationship might be in the general election. Super Delegates sit nervously on the fence, waiting to see how Obama performs in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Indiana. They are biting their nails with questions of doubt: what if he screws up? what if he cannot indeed win the white-color class?

This, my friends, is a year that should have been and should be easy for a Democratic Victory, given the state of the economy and the unpopularity of current incumbent.

And lately, some have been questioning the role of Al Gore in the current campaign road to hell. In the article, The Last Temptation of Al Gore, Time Magazine questions, "What would this Gore be like as a candidate?" Although they admit that "Gore is just not all that tempted to find out," the question arises within ourselves, almost instantly.

The truth is of all possibilities these days, especially with Dean as head of the Democratic Party. And if we are to play a little, who's to say that the party's top beards aren't stroking on their skepticism that neither candidate suits their visions? All they'd really have to do would be to convince a large number of their Super Delegate buddies, fewer than 100, to announce a passing of the first ballot at the Denver convention. This would deny the 2,025 votes necessary to Obama or Clinton. The partymen could then easily approach Gore and ask him to be the nominee, "for the good of the part" according to Time, and suggest that Gore take Obama or Clinton as his running mate. But the truth is Time, what would Obama say? What would Clinton say?

Time magazine quotes a fundraiser: "Gore-Obama is the ticket a lot of people wanted in the first place." But Time and CNN are undoubtedly Obama leeches.

Gore's friends are the ones who know him most, and believe me, I'd love to ask Tommy Lee Jones, who if you didn't already know, was Gore's freshman-year roommate at Harvard. One of his close friends (not Tommy Lee) said: "I don't know that he'd be interested, even if you handed it to him." But is this scenario any more preposterous than the one that gave John Mccain the GOP nomination? Then again, March is just ending, and it's possible that the madness will spill over and tickle April's flap.

By Rena Silverman