Will the the Dems experience buyer’s remorse as the contrast between their candidate’s lack of experience and McCain’s substantial experience becomes more and more apparent? Will they seek out another “savior”?
Interesting thesis over at NRO…
“Plausible”? Try “inevitable.” It’s August in Denver. You have a convention hall full of party activists, nervous and weary from months of watching the party’s two candidates clawing and scratching at each other. Both those candidates are looking pretty tattered. Bill Clinton’s mistress has spilled the beans on O’Reilly, and Michelle Obama’s senior sociology thesis has come to light — the one where she let loose on the “ineradicable racism of white Americans” and called the U.S.A. “a nation founded in crime and hatred.”* McCain is looking stronger than ever. The Turks are advancing on Kirkuk. Iran has lobbed a ballistic test missile far out over the Indian Ocean. The Chinese are mad as hell following the collapse of the summer Olympics the week before, as athletes refused to compete in gritty smog, and are making new threats against Taiwan. It’s a dangerous world out there, and community organizing and ed-biz wonkery are being marked down as presidential qualifications.
What to do? What to do? The party bosses are slumped in their seats, staring blankly into space, or doing job searches on their Blackberries. All is gloom and despondency.
Then … A fanfare of trumpets! A shaft of light! Into the hall rides a man on a white stallion! Stirred from their lethargy, the delegates begin rising from their seats. They start cheering and applauding. The rider reaches the podium, dismounts, and strides to the dais. The applause is deafening now. Cheers ring round the hall! Women are weeping; men are hugging each other.
Broad-shouldered and confident, his sternocleidomastoid muscle flexing and rippling, the Rescuer sweeps his powerful gaze around the hall. A hush falls. He begins to speak. As he speaks, the same thought settles on every listener simultaneously: This is the one. He has always been the one. What fools we have been!
Okay, before you break into a cold sweat…this is Paulbot Derb, positing this theory. It’s probably complete bunk.
Probably.
Most Likely:
He’s too busy saving the planet to be interested. The latest entry of Al’s journal:
Investing In the Climate:
“On Thursday, I spoke to more than 500 financial leaders and institutional investors at the third UN/CERES Investor Summit. The attendees were searching for ways to confront, from the perspective of the financial sector, the shift to cleaner sources of energy and away from carbon businesses are sure to face in the coming years.I told the audience they need to reexamine their investment portfolios,
because currently they are full of subprime carbon assets businesses to
reliant on carbon intensive energy.
Financial advisors and investment managers will need to focus on the
long-term solutions to the climate crisis in order to be successful. An
important step they can take, is signing the Investor Network Action Plan.
Financial managers controlling over $1.75 trillion in assets signed this
document, unveiled at the conference. It lays out principals by which these
investors cannot only help solve the climate crisis, but also see the
rewards in the form of financial profits.”
February, 21, 2008 at 10:51 am
[...] The folks at NRO think that Al Gore will be the eventual Democratic nominee come convention time in August (h/t to Nice Deb). [...]
February, 21, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Never happen. As Rush always points out, if Gore runs, he’ll have to actually answer questions about global warming that he can’t possibly answer, and he ain’t gonna throw away that golden goose.
February, 21, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Who’s gonna ask him the questions?
Remember, McCain drank the koolaid on global warming, too.
February, 21, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Yeah, but McCain’s not making millions from it.
(or is he?)
Gore will be pressed on this stuff, and people (even MSM) will put a microscope on Gore’s questionable “businessess.”
I don’t think he wants that to happen.
Might dirty up his Nobel.
February, 21, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Also, right now he’s friggen “Saint Gore.”
Four years in office would surely expose what a fraud he is, even with a sympathetic media, and I think he knows that.
February, 21, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Gore will be pressed on this stuff, and people (even MSM) will put a microscope on Gore’s questionable “businessess.”
The MSM I know will be fawning, and studiously incurious about the “businesses”.
February, 21, 2008 at 2:47 pm
will be fawning
Make that would be.
I don’t think it’s going to happen, either. I think Obama is going to remain a strong candidate right up to the election. He remains ridiculously popular, and Hillary’s probably gonna flame out way before the Dem convention. And the media is, of course, staunchly in support of Obama, so we can look forward to no hit pieces about him coming out in any major newspapers.
Still, I see the polling that now shows Obama with a 7 point lead over McCain narrowing, or disappearing before November, when people look harder at the two men, and start to sober up.