Title: Kerry Isn't Al Gore
GSC Admin - October 24, 2004 04:19 AM (GMT)
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Kerry Isn't Al Gore
But this may be the first time that's a bad thing.
By Chris Suellentrop
Posted Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004, at 11:05 PM PT
MILWAUKEE—Here's a complaint you won't hear very often: Some Democrats wish John Kerry's campaign was just a tiny bit more like Al Gore's. They may be happy to do without the sighing, the man-tan, the public displays of affection, the ill-fitting populist message, Joe Lieberman, Mark Fabiani, and the weird New Yorker interview. But there's one thing they do miss: Gore's post-convention riverboat trip down the Mississippi River.
Karl Rove has attributed the narrow Democratic victory in Iowa four years ago to the riverboat trip, which allowed Gore to reach rural river counties that Bush couldn't reach by plane (for want of a suitable runway). The congressional newspaper The Hill noted earlier this month that Gore won nine of the 10 Iowa counties along the Mississippi River. That feat is even more impressive in light of Gore's miserable performance nationally in rural areas.
Kerry is doing all he can to appeal to rural voters, particularly in Ohio. In addition to Thursday's hunting trip, he attended Mass on a Saturday afternoon during his bus trip this past weekend, and he accepted a shotgun as a gift during a political rally at the end of that trip. (That was the second time I've seen Kerry receive a gun at a rally. He was also given one during a September rally in West Virginia's coal country. He refrained this time, however, from mourning the fact that he could not use it to shoot the president.) But if Kerry wins Ohio and ends up losing Iowa and Wisconsin (and thereby the presidency), some fingers will immediately point at Kerry's failure to imitate Gore's successful, and nearly decisive, boat ride.
Would President Gore Have Prevented 9/11? In Reason's poll of notables from the "reason universe," Camille Paglia explains that she's voting for John Kerry this time and that she voted for Ralph Nader four years ago because she detests "the arrogant, corrupt superstructure of the Democratic Party." But even though Paglia thought Gore would be such a bad president that she was driven to vote for Nader, she also claims that if he had become president he would have prevented 9/11.
Paglia doesn't put it that way, but the logic is inescapable from her explanation of her "most embarrassing vote": "Bill Clinton the second time around. Because he did not honorably resign when the Lewinsky scandal broke and instead tied up the country and paralyzed the government for two years, leading directly to our blindsiding by 9/11."
Campaign Reporters for Truth: I wasn't one of the members of the traveling press that went on the hunting trip with Kerry. I am, however, a member of the traveling press. And I can tell you that the goose that Kerry shot was a mere gosling, wearing only a loincloth, fleeing the scene, and that Kerry chased it down and shot it in the back.
Kerry Isn't Al Gore
But this may be the first time that's a bad thing.
By Chris Suellentrop
Posted Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004, at 11:05 PM PT
MILWAUKEE—Here's a complaint you won't hear very often: Some Democrats wish John Kerry's campaign was just a tiny bit more like Al Gore's. They may be happy to do without the sighing, the man-tan, the public displays of affection, the ill-fitting populist message, Joe Lieberman, Mark Fabiani, and the weird New Yorker interview. But there's one thing they do miss: Gore's post-convention riverboat trip down the Mississippi River.
Karl Rove has attributed the narrow Democratic victory in Iowa four years ago to the riverboat trip, which allowed Gore to reach rural river counties that Bush couldn't reach by plane (for want of a suitable runway). The congressional newspaper The Hill noted earlier this month that Gore won nine of the 10 Iowa counties along the Mississippi River. That feat is even more impressive in light of Gore's miserable performance nationally in rural areas.
Kerry is doing all he can to appeal to rural voters, particularly in Ohio. In addition to Thursday's hunting trip, he attended Mass on a Saturday afternoon during his bus trip this past weekend, and he accepted a shotgun as a gift during a political rally at the end of that trip. (That was the second time I've seen Kerry receive a gun at a rally. He was also given one during a September rally in West Virginia's coal country. He refrained this time, however, from mourning the fact that he could not use it to shoot the president.) But if Kerry wins Ohio and ends up losing Iowa and Wisconsin (and thereby the presidency), some fingers will immediately point at Kerry's failure to imitate Gore's successful, and nearly decisive, boat ride.
Would President Gore Have Prevented 9/11? In Reason's poll of notables from the "reason universe," Camille Paglia explains that she's voting for John Kerry this time and that she voted for Ralph Nader four years ago because she detests "the arrogant, corrupt superstructure of the Democratic Party." But even though Paglia thought Gore would be such a bad president that she was driven to vote for Nader, she also claims that if he had become president he would have prevented 9/11.
Paglia doesn't put it that way, but the logic is inescapable from her explanation of her "most embarrassing vote": "Bill Clinton the second time around. Because he did not honorably resign when the Lewinsky scandal broke and instead tied up the country and paralyzed the government for two years, leading directly to our blindsiding by 9/11."
Campaign Reporters for Truth: I wasn't one of the members of the traveling press that went on the hunting trip with Kerry. I am, however, a member of the traveling press. And I can tell you that the goose that Kerry shot was a mere gosling, wearing only a loincloth, fleeing the scene, and that Kerry chased it down and shot it in the back.
ErinB - October 27, 2004 03:19 AM (GMT)
No, Kerry isn't Al Gore.
Just ask yourself...how would they have been the same or different as Presidents? This assuming for mental health sake that Kerry is elected.
A Gore Presidency vs. a Kerry Presidency or assuming also that Gore ran this time and will win...
Just food for thought.
Just ask yourself...how would they have been the same or different as Presidents? This assuming for mental health sake that Kerry is elected.
A Gore Presidency vs. a Kerry Presidency or assuming also that Gore ran this time and will win...
Just food for thought.
Gore2008 - October 27, 2004 07:43 PM (GMT)
Saying Kerry isn't Al Gore is an understatement to say the least. For starters, Kerry just doen't get it the way Al Gore does. Furthermore, 9/11 would've been prevented because President Gore would've never have ignored the many warnings that the Bush election stealers ignored so they could justify their war for oil in Iraq.
ALGOREismylife - October 27, 2004 09:17 PM (GMT)
No, Kerry isn't PRESIDENT AL GORE, no one is. PRESIDENT AL GORE is far above everyone and everything on this no good worthless planet earth. That's why he gets screwed by all this evil, it's sickening. But Kerry is far better than that damn evil THIEF named BUSH.
Dolphins4Gore - October 27, 2004 11:49 PM (GMT)
I despise animal murderers!!! :mad:
UGH!!! JOHN KERRY ( :bad: ) REALLY BURNS ME UP! :angry:
UGH!!! JOHN KERRY ( :bad: ) REALLY BURNS ME UP! :angry:
ReElectAlGore2008 - November 8, 2004 10:53 PM (GMT)
In retrospect he sure wasn't
AL GORE took the fight to the top before they ended it with their bizarre 5 to 4 ruling.
JOHN KERRY gave up in half a day.
And John Edwards burns me up worse than Kerry burns you up
AL GORE took the fight to the top before they ended it with their bizarre 5 to 4 ruling.
JOHN KERRY gave up in half a day.
And John Edwards burns me up worse than Kerry burns you up
ErinB - November 8, 2004 10:56 PM (GMT)
Dolphins...Did Kerry go hunting or something? I must have missed it.
ALGOREismylife - November 8, 2004 11:03 PM (GMT)
Although I will always prefer PRESIDENT AL GORE over Kerry or anyone else, there is no comparison, I will say this in favor of Kerry. I was disappointed when he gave up in less than a day, but I can't blame him for not wanting to go through the same abuse AL did in 2000. It was rigged and the same dishonest cronies from 2000 were all in place in 2004, so how much hope would there have been to stop ELECTION THEFT---THE 2004 VERSION???
GSC Admin - November 8, 2004 11:05 PM (GMT)
ReElectAlGore2008 - November 8, 2004 11:08 PM (GMT)
Chris, that was quick, putting those pix uup.
He looked better in gear than Dukakis did in a tank
(But he did not hold the dead geese, if he did indeed shoot it.(No pix of him actually shooting anything, so who knows)
But Al won Iowa. Kerry blew it.
He looked better in gear than Dukakis did in a tank
(But he did not hold the dead geese, if he did indeed shoot it.(No pix of him actually shooting anything, so who knows)
But Al won Iowa. Kerry blew it.
earthmother - November 8, 2004 11:47 PM (GMT)
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| Dolphins...Did Kerry go hunting or something? I must have missed it. |
Erin, if I may . . . this is Kerry's whole thing with not being totally anti-gun. The guy hunts, and he's proud of it. Well, that's a big thing all over the country. But if you don't like someone who goes around killing animals for sport, then you'd have a problem with Kerry.