Gore Looking Good For An '08 Run

I found this encouraging (via Altercation):

Forget that half-hearted declaration Al Gore gave at an economic forum in Stockholm, Sweden two weeks ago about having "absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again." According to friends, family and political advocates, Gore's playing it coy and has every intention of entering the race. "I'm not discouraged at all by what he said," said one of the Gore backers who's recently spoken with US News & World Report. "He doesn't want to be embarrassed and he won't just slowly tip-toe into the race. He wants the whole thing set up for him and that will be easy to do."

I've really changed my mind about Gore in the last few years. I still think he ran a horrible campaign back in 2000, but he's made up for it by turning into one of the most outspoken opponents of the Bush Regime.

Sure, Gore took a lot of heat from the Extreme Right for some of the things he said regarding the Iraq Debacle, but it will be pretty hard for the extremists to dig up those Gore statements and claim that he was wrong. And that is what will make Gore a strong presidential candidate in 2008.

John Kerry is making noise about another run for the White House, and Hillary Clinton will probably go for it as well, but both Kerry and Hillary voted for the Iraq War. They can't go back and change their votes, and any attempts to finesse their vote on that issue will not succeed. That strategy didn't work for Kerry last year, so why should it work in 2008?

I know I would not vote for either of them in a primary because of how they voted on the Iraq War. The Democrats must run someone who was consistently against it, and Gore is that man. Wes Clark is not too bad in that regard, but even Clark flip-flopped a little bit on Iraq.

Another thing Gore has going for him is the impression that he actually won the 2000 election. I think his campaign could use that very effectively. It could say, for example, that America has the chance to correct what now must be viewed as one of the most disastrous events in American political history, namely, the appointment of George W. Bush as our 43rd president.