this can only be explained the product of our 24 hour news cycle combined with the lack of anything new to report and the fact that we still have months of airtime to fill before this thing is finally over.
what a stupid fucking idea. i'm not commenting on al gore as a candidate. maybe he would have made a fine presidential contender. but look, gore had his chance to run for president if he wanted to this year. there were people who were clamoring to draft al gore, but he decided to turn them down and sit this one out.
meanwhile, the parties' current problem is that we have two candidates each with a dedicated group of adherents but neither of which with enough adherents to deliver the requisite number of pledge (i.e. elected) delegates to clinch the race. that means that the contest will have to be settled by super (i.e. nonelected) delegates. and that means the close to 50% of democrats who support the candidate who didn't win are going to feel like their voice was overruled by party insiders and that the process was illegitimate.
and now along comes this idea of having party insiders hand the nomination to gore instead of choosing between clinton or obama. so instead of overruling the vote of nearly half of all democrats, they're saying we should overrule the votes of all democrats to pick someone who didn't want the presidency enough to formally file when he had the chance a few months back.
i guess making everyone disgruntled is what passes for party unity these days.
