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August 8, 2007 at 08:09:58

Will it be Al Gore or a Republican?

by Ed Martin     Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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Al Gore is a fine man, a great American.  No doubt about it.  I like Al Gore.  He'd make a good President.  There's just this one thing.  He's a loser.  That's not being derogatory.  That's just an inconvenient truth.   He lost the election.  Against the incompetent George Bush, of all people.  If Al Gore were to run again, the only truthful thing the Republicans would say about him is, "HE'S A LOSER!!!"  They'd be stating a fact.  They'd say it over and over, all day, every day.  Everything else they would say about him would be just the usual lies, smears and ad hominem attacks.  The Republicans would ride the loser theme to death.  Al Gore's Presidential death.  Again.

Here's what happened in the 2000 election.  Al Gore and George Bush walked onto the world stage (first time for George) and George turned to Al and said, "BOO!"  Al Gore quietly tucked his tail between his legs and walked away, never looking back.  Gore won the election by half a million votes.  It's a fact that the Republican election officals and the Republican Supreme Court stole the election from Al Gore.  Do you see a pattern here, something to do with Republicans?  He knows that.  So, why did he do absolutely nothing about it?  Why did he not raise the slightest protest?  Why did he make no attempt to take his rightful place as President?  He could have stirred up a big stink.  It would have all been exposed.  For some reason, he did nothing.  He's too nice a guy to get down and dirty, to play hard ball with the Republicans.  That's why he should never try it again.

Is it likely that our next President will be a Republican?  Yes, it's very likely.  Her name is Hillary Clinton.  I know, she's supposed to be a Democrat.  But, look at her voting record.  The most important vote of her life was with the Republicans.  She voted to allow George Bush to declare war, in violation of the Constitution.  Instead of doing it herself, she let George do it.  That's bad enough, but the worst part of her vote is that she voted with Republicans.  And look what it got us.  You lie down with Republicans, you get Republican fleas.  Nasty little buggers.  Hang around forever.

Our government has been allowed to go to hell in a hand basket.  A Republican crafted hand basket.  It's easy and tempting to say that George Bush is the cause of it all.  But, even though he's part of the cause, he's just the exemplar, the archetype of the cause, which is Republicanism.  He represents all the Republicans and the rest of the country's uninformed and misinformed could have ever wanted.  The Republicans wanted him real bad and they got him in all his ignorant, incompetent blustering.  The prime example of all things Republican.  We must completely reject George Bush and the malevolent, destructive ideology of Republicanism that created him and held him up as the finest example of the God-awful, ruthlessness, lawlessness, cronyism, corruption, politicizing of everything, the Ayn Rand philosophy of extolling the sanctity of greed, or we just let them have it and all go to work and back every day at Wal-Mart under military escort.

The Democrats in congress are catching hell for going along with Bush's Republican program.  No wonder.  They're hanging around a bunch of Republicans all day.  Apparently Republicanism is contagious by association, kinda like obesity.   It's deleterious to your thinking, clouds your mind, makes you start listening to George Bush.

George Bush is effectively now an ex-President, and should always be referred to as such.  He still has the Democrats fooled into thinking he's a real President and they still bow to his pretense.

The way to handle Republicans, including George Bush is, on encountering them, to hand them a card I had printed that says, "You are a Republican.  I will not listen to you.  I will not talk to you.  I will not allow you in my presence.  You are dismissed."  Then, remain silent.

That's the way the Democrats in congress are going to have to handle the Republicans in congress and the way we will have to handle all Republicans.  I think I'll send them a batch of cards, see if they'll use them to finally rid themselves of their Republican fleas.

 

Ed Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.

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Proud to be a Dean Democrat.
LindaSFNMProud to be a Dean Democrat.

We see delusional runs with lying and denying facts

I couldn't possibly know where to start with your smear campaign, so I'll just say,

you may be hoping for a Republican and obviously lying about the facts is your only  weapons in your arsenal.

 

Time for a COOL change

Gore

2008 

by LindaSFNM (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 11 comments) on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 10:01:19 AM
 


Ed Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.
Ed MartinEd Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.

I didn't realize Al Gore became President

Gee Whiz, Linda, I had no idea that Al Gore didn't lose the 2000 election and didn't become President.  I don't know how I could have gotten such a simple fact so wrong.  All this time I thought that guy in the White House was George Bush, not Al Gore.  Thanks for getting this straightened out.

Thanks, Ed.

by Ed Martin (104 articles, 0 quicklinks, 30 diaries, 109 comments) on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 10:54:25 AM
 



david morrison

apologies

apologies, i didn't finish reading your article before i sent off an angry note about the stolen election,

david morrison

by david morrison (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments) on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 10:56:22 AM
 


Ed Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.
Ed MartinEd Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.

Correcting errors

Thanks, Mr. Morrison.  I've had to correct it when I got the facts wrong, as can be seen in the post from Linda and my correction of the facts above.  Can you believe it?  I actually thought Al Gore lost the election, but Linda got me straightened out.

Thanks, Ed.

by Ed Martin (104 articles, 0 quicklinks, 30 diaries, 109 comments) on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 11:15:08 AM
 



Dallas112263

I wonder...

When I hear my brethren on the Left begin to utter these very rigid knee jerk opinions about people who put their lives on the line each day, and that is what Al Gore did and does every day, accusing them of being dishonest and weak in the face of what, in hindsight, is quite obvious to the armchair commentator... I wonder just where they were on Election Night 2000, were they out getting people to the polls to prevent the destruction of our Constitution? Or were they home snug as bugs and so pleased with themselves that they weren't tainted, that they had proudly cast their ballots for Ralph Nader.

I recently was honored to meet Mr. Gore and hear what he actually had to say about one of the issues raised here. Mr. Gore pointed out that under our Constitution there is no halfway point between a Supreme Court decision and armed insurrection. Either to the barricades or concede, which he did with much more class than Mr. Bush has ever shown. Would you, or Mr. Nader, have followed him to the barricades? 

Al Gore was the first major figure to endorse Howard Dean; he has opposed the Regime at every step and has been a vocal and energetic spokesperson for Democrats, raising tons of money for the 2006 Congressional race. He is not a loser…

Dallas112263AL GORE 2008! Deadlock in Denver! Gore by Acclimation!

by Dallas112263 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments) on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 2:33:57 PM
 


Ed Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.
Ed MartinEd Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.

I thought George Bush won the election

Like I said to Linda, above, all this time I thought Al Gore was the loser in the 2000 election.  I didn't know until now that Gore was not the loser.  Thanks for setting me straight on that.  But, you know, the guy in the White House sure doesn't look much like Al Gore.  I don't know how I could have been so mistaken.

Thanks, Ed.

by Ed Martin (104 articles, 0 quicklinks, 30 diaries, 109 comments) on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 4:24:31 PM
 


Stonefeather is not the name on his birth cirtificate: he was originally named for a king and a general, and he has little use for kings or generals. Having rejected the tool of electoral politics for most of his life as inefficacious for the healing of history's various diseases, it was our present American Crisis -- the venomous, psycotic Neocon campaign for world domination -- that brought him to Howard Dean's run for the presidency in 2003 (yes, he even went to Iowa) and he's been doing the ...

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David GrubbsStonefeather is not the name on his birth cirtificate: he was originally named for a king and a general, and he has little use for kings or generals. Having rejected the tool of electoral politics for most of his life as inefficacious for the healing of history's various diseases, it was our present American Crisis -- the venomous, psycotic Neocon campaign for world domination -- that brought him to Howard Dean's run for the presidency in 2003 (yes, he even went to Iowa) and he's been doing the ...

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Not A Loser

Gore WON the 2000 election. Jeb Bush STOLE it for his brother, though it wasn't until months AFTER a partisan Supreme Court awarded it to Dubya that this became clear. Gore fought as far as he could -- short of civil war, for which he of course had neither arms nor the backing of the people to prosecute, even if he'd somehow had some kind of mystical foreknowledge of what was to come under Bush, Cheney & Co. Yet you chastise him for not doing more? What have YOU done here except play Monday morning quarterback?

Al Gore is the ONLY potential candidate who can beat Clinton AND any candidate the Repubicans put up. He alone has the experience, the intelligence, the integrity, the courage and the gravitas. And beyond the mere winning of an election, he alone will reclaim our Constitutional liberties and protections, lead this nation back from the brink of fascism, get us the hell OUT of Iraq, save human civilization from environmental catastrophe, and make America a force for good, not evil, in the world. Some of the others may be good people, but NO ONE ELSE, among the present candidates, can do these things, because they have no real depth of vision regarding them

If he runs, he will win, and if he wins, he will be the FDR of this century, as young as it is. So get off your high horse, quit sneering, and urge the one person who can rescue this country from neocon ruin to RUN!

 

by David Grubbs (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments) on Friday, August 10, 2007 at 12:48:25 AM
 


I am a social worker who works with chronically mentally ill people.  Like enjoy reading, quilting and visiting with people
beccyI am a social worker who works with chronically mentally ill people.  Like enjoy reading, quilting and visiting with people

Not a Loser

The republicans think that Gerry Ford helped the country by pardoning Nixon.  I agree Al had done everything he possibily could do before the horrible surpreme court gave their prince his crown.  Al did what he thought was best for the country.  We didn't need a civil war.  I do think the republicans would have killed him if he would have tried after that moment.  May their souls rot in hell.

by beccy (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 87 comments) on Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 2:41:20 PM
 

 

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