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Sunday, September 14, 2003
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AL GORE IS AN IDIOT
I'm constantly amused by the continuing leftie anger toward Ralph Nader. Jesus, wasn't that election nearly three years ago. But the anger continues. Democrats believe in "counting every vote (over and over again, if necessary)" but apparently not in the unfettered right of anyone to run for public office, especially if it fucks with their odds of winning.
So Gore had a challenge from his left, so what? People often forget that George W. Bush had a challenge from his right in Patrick J. Buchannan. In 1948, President Harry S. Truman had challengers on his right (then Governor Strom Thurmond) AND his left (former Vice-President Henry Wallace). Both Truman and Bush overcame their intra-party challenges and won the general election. It's called being a political professional. You have an opponent, you beat him. It's pretty simple when you think about it.
Vice-President Albert Gore, Jr. was never a political professional. Granted, he did well in Tennessee, where he ran against nobodies for 13 years. But people forget that the 2000 campaign wasn't Gore's first run for the presidency. He ran in the primaries in 1988 where he got stomped like the naked, fat guy at Altamont by Jesse Jackson of all people. Jesse Jackson beat Al Gore in Michigan, too. In white county after white county, Al Gore became a prison bitch to one of the least serious people ever to run for the presidency. In the 2000 primaries Al Gore was in mortal terror that he, a sitting vice-president, might lose the nomination to an NBA white guy.
George Bush, like him or not, is a political professional. People forget how Bush became Governor of Texas. He ran against a highly popular incumbent, Ann Richards. The polls had Richards ahead by 40 points, an insurmountable lead. And Bush won. Big. Richards was being touted as a future presidential nominee, so popular was she. And Bush, a supposed idiot frat boy, crushed her like a fucking beer can. In he re-election campaign, Bush won with 60% of the vote and went on to face a field of 9 for the GOP presidential nomination, a field that included media centerfold Senator John McCain. And Bush beat them all in record time. The nomination was his by the first of March.
Then came the general election campaign. Bush worked his ass off and he really didn't need to. Gore was so busy destroying himself on the road that Bush should've just sat back and watched. Gore, in a move unique to southern nominees through history, wrote off the south. He almost never went there. He ignored his own home state of Tennessee, which had he won it, would have made Florida irrelevant. So panicked was the Gore team that, in the days before the election, they were plotting a strategy of how to spin his losing the popular vote while winning in the Electoral College.
And then came Florida.
During that debacle, Gore was seemingly on television every 15 seconds with more American flags behind him with each appearance, justifying why he was suing everyone in sight. His public support eroded daily. Counting every vote seemed like a nice concept (unless, y'know you vote by military absentee ballot) but Gore wanted the votes counted over and over again. And the only reason that Florida mattered at all was because his campaign strategy made it matter.
So, let's let Ralph Nader fade into obscurity, Democrats. With all this bitching and moaning, you only encourage him to run again. If you want to win, nominate someone who looks like they want to win...Someone like Al Sharpton.
Shit, I just political again, didn't I?
Currently Reading: "The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate- Robert A. Caro
Number of Times I've Masturbated Today: 5
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