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Liz Garrigan, blogger at the Nashville Scene's Pith in the Wind (heh) titles her post "An Inconvenient Truth: Gore Has Jumped the Shark". Since this was my first visit to Pithdom, I can't tell you if Liz is pleased or no; she immediately links to Joe Klein's Time piece on Mr. Gore's possible re-emergence as a viable political candidate..."And so I'm rather embarrassed to admit that I'm slouching toward, well, a theory: if this race continues to slide downhill, the answer to the Democratic Party's dilemma may turn out to be Al Gore." Slouching, indeed.

Fast break to Ed Morrissey, writing at HotAir..."Dems open the smoke-filled room, and Gore pours out"

I don't care much for Joe Klein, but Ed Morrissey, of the fabled Captain's Quarters blog, is magnificent in his drop on Al Gore...

What could be less democratic than a major political party nominating a candidate for President who didn’t receive a single vote in the primaries? That would create the biggest example of smoke-filled-room politics and the biggest underhanded manipulation by a political party in decades. And ironically, it’s the Democrats who have begun laying the groundwork for exactly that scenario by pushing Al Gore as an alternative to the two candidates who have raised hundreds of millions from their followers to finish in a virtual dead heat

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Desperation leads the unwise to folly, and this is perhaps the best example yet seen. The party establishment, which created the superdelegate conundrum that now threatens to split the Democrats, want to avoid that result by pushing not one but both popular candidates out of the race. Rather than having the establishment choose between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, which threatens to have a significant portion of both camps defect to John McCain, they want to enrage everyone by offering the loser of the 2000 campaign as their hand-picked alternative.

Loser. Al Gore. 2000. There's not a chance in hell Al Gore could win this election. We watched him stalk off after 2000, only to have to trundle back (with the help of suspensors or need of a moo moo, take your choice) and catapult himself into 'mending fences' by embarking on a quest to destroy our economy with his newfound religion of "Global Warmalism". Can he win on that? No.

More, from Ed...

Gore’s biggest issue has already been negated by John McCain, who supports American action on global-warming issues. Gore has done nothing on any other public policy over the last eight years. He played footsie with Hollywood and flew private jets all over the world to scold people over their energy use, and turned himself into a one-note activist who won’t even be able to play that single tone in an election against McCain.

A one-note activist...I wonder, how sour is that note?

If this mistake is what gets the Dems fired up, go for it. Pick a guy to run who didn’t get a single primary vote, a proven loser who was kept under Bill Clinton’s thumb for eight years (backstage to Monica’s skirts, too, eh?)

Remember the BDS, remember the hate and snark from the left for the past seven years?

With Al Gore back in the political kitchen, those chickens will come home…to roast!

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