Mr. Gore will be nominated at the convention. He will win the presidency

Look,

I’m not an Al Gore fan. But I do like him more than any other candidate at this point and I predict that he will be our next president of the United States, and here’s why. This country is NOT ready for a woman president, nor a black Muslim. I know, he says he isn’t Muslim, but people don’t believe him. Mr. Obama is also vapid of content. Even though I don’t like Gore’s positions, he definitely has one and I have always respected him because he takes one and truly believes what he is saying and trying to do.

Here is how it will go down. During the convention, there will be a virtual deadlock in the party about these two. Mr. Gore has already established who he is, and he has far more respect than any candidate in the race thus far. He, of course, will be on the agenda to speak and after he does, there will be a buzz. Mr. Dean will get the party machine to nominate him, and in a landslide, he will be nominated by the party. Mr. Gore has set himself up as working toward a goal that is more lofty than the mere presidency. He has established himself as the one who will “save the world”. He will object at first, but there will be much cajoling and he will reluctantly accept the nomination. Gore is the party’s best candidate and Dean and he know it. His speech will go something like “I did not seek this nomination, but if my country calls me to service I will answer the call. Saving the planet from Global Warming is more important than anything foreign or domestic we face as a nation. But, as president I will move to make the United States the leader in stopping this dire situation. I will strive to unify the world against a common enemy, and this will end much of the conflict. I accept your nomination in the spirit of service to my country”. He will then pick a woman, or a black Muslim as Vice President, run and handily beat McCain.

Here are some aspects of this situation, other than the obvious one that Gore will be president:

1. It opens the door to women and blacks and Muslims as president because they will have served as a vice president. Regardless of what people say to the press, this has to happen first. We will not elect either without one of their types serving as vice president.
2. Gore has ALWAYS wanted to be president. He was born and groomed to do it. He will actually will be a good chief executive, even though I don’t like his policies at all
3. By campaigning for Global Warming, nuzzling up with the media, and denying that he wants to be president, he has elevated himself to a noble, almost priestly status with nearly everyone. He has even moved a significant number of conservative republicans to believe the Global Warming threat.
4. Gore, via his film, Oscar appearances, etc…has been campaigning for more than a year to become known to people. Everyone knows who he is and that is the most important thing for a presidential candidate.
5. By being drafted at the convention, versus blatantly campaigning, he is positioning himself as unselfish.
6. By being drafted at the convention, he will have a clear mandate, something the Democrats have always accuse W as lacking
7. He will not really have to campaign that hard. He has complete and total access to all forms of media. His campaign film is rented everyday at Blockbuster and will continue to generate revenue for his campaign. Everyone also knows who he is and what he stands for.
8. I really don’t like Gore’s policies, but everyone will agree he is most presidential. McCain is scary, Clinton is not likable, and Obama doesn’t really know anything.
9. The party has needed to get the Clinton stank off of it for a while. Howard Dean and Al Gore are brilliant men and I believe they have engineered all of this in a way that will not only give control to Dean and Gore, but will boot Clinton out handily with this drafting mandate of Gore. A resounding rejection of the Clinton approach. There really is no other way to get away from Clinton.
10. The excitement of a candidate being pulled down from Mt. Olympus to serve our country will be a story in and of itself.
11. When people walk into that voting booth, even moderates, and a good portion of republicans will vote for Gore over McCain.

Don’t give up so quickly. This will happen, I can assure you. Think about it. Gore has wanted to be president his entire life, was discouraged that he didn’t win last time, and was so close. Why in the world would he NOT accept the nomination in this climate where as Ralph Nader says “If the democrats don’t win by a landslide, they should pack it up?” Why wouldn’t the party nominate the man who is most likely to win and wants it so bad he can hardly stand it?

Gore and Dean have engineered this from the beginning to keep Gore clean and fresh and not get dragged into the muck of primary politics and they have been successful. This is the most unusual election in many years because there is no incumbent running at all. So why wouldn’t this happen? Don’t give up…its going to be President Gore.

Sincerely,

John Muoio

Staunch Conservative mourning Buckley’s death and preferring Gore to McCain