Like how he didn't know the Buddhist monks were donating money because he drank too much ice tea and had to go weewee? Like how his Mommy sang him the the union song? Like how he grew up on a tobacco farm?

Dive in the Kool Aid pool!

Gore may well speak too much truth to be electable.

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Gore would not be running against Bush in 2008. No matter how hard you try, you can't get a do-over for 2000 or 2004.

"Why would anyone vote for the GOP candidate?"

I'm going to go out on a limb here: you're not going to vote for the GOP. But outside fever swamp, I could see plenty of reasons that the GOP candidate, let's say it's Giuliani and McCain, for example, would beat Gore and whoever. Nobody ever became President by being a screaming loony, which is what Gore has become.

I'm not saying the Democrats would lose 08 - they'll likely win, especially if they run Hillary, but if they re-run Gore they would rue the day. Face it, most Americans don't glow with incandescent Bush hate as you seem to, so it certainly matters who the Democrats choose to run/ how they go about running the Presidential campaign.

And what is the GOP going to run on? That their next candidate will restore honor and dignity to the White House? "No, really, this time, it'll work! We'll be good this time!"

Are the GOP going to run as fiscal conservatives? Bush did, too. Why should anyone believe future GOP candidates on that score? That is essentially off the table as an issue.

Gore wouldn't even have to say that Bush essentially lied to the country and misrepresented himself (and by extension, the GOP participated in the fraud.) That would just hang over the campaign as common knowledge.

Why should anyone vote for the GOP candidate?

OK, Pug, and I will even concede that there are still Angry White Males out here....BUT,

The Republicans don't come across as 'angry'...they just represent those who are angry.

There is footage of Gore that would lead some to believe he needs to be put into the bed next to Patrick Kennedy.

Anger is a motivator, and plenty of people are downright pissed off right now. The phony, tip-toeing centrism of Hillary Clinton is what is in trouble now.

And Gore was hardly "demolished" in 2000. He got more votes than George W. Bush when Bush was still claiming to be a "uniter, not a divider". The whole "he's too angry" thing is nothing more than a right-wing spin point.

You spend too much time on the internet. Normal people don't think or vote that way. If the Democrats are going to run a guy like Gore now hoping to seize the Oval Office on a tide of supposed popular regret and atonement, they will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Although that is something the Democrats have a knack for.

I don't think you should discount that factor. The country has realized that Bush was a tragic mistake. Electing Gore in 2008 would be a powerful repudiation of the GOP that brought such a feckless man to power.