Who can I send $$ to if I don't want Al Gore to run?

Dan had this link up a couple of weeks ago too:
www.draftjeb.org

Ok, I'm game. But where does the money go if Al doesn't want to run? ('cause, y'know, he keeps saying he won't).

Good question, Ivan. On the site it says "All funds raised for DG08 will be used exclusively for grassroots and netroots organizing: We will never hire overpriced consultants or buy TV ads. All major expenditures will be reported on the website for member scrutiny and comment." I would expect it goes where leftover money usually goes in failed primary campaigns - the DNC, or possibly qualified grassroots organizations. In order to qualify as a PAC this is pretty tightly controlled by law. However, it would be worth asking the Draft Gore folks to post this on their website.

Is Tipper still around?

Tipper's my dealbreaker, Dan. Sorry.

Oh, the Tipper thing. Let it go.

yeah, that's a great investment...cause you know, he ran such a great campaign in 2000, i really hope we can get him to repeat that.

John Edwards For President, 2008

When I review the other "possible" candidates I can't think of anyone I really want to put my support behind. Maybe Gore has that chance(and maybe that charisma?) to win.

"Oh, the Tipper thing. Let it go."

Yes! Thanks you, Dan.

12 Year Old Me would kick Now Me's ass for saying it but it's so true.

The Tipper thing is only a little more *yawn* than the whole, "We ran him in 2000 and he was boring" thing.

I was far from bored by the idea of America kicking the oil habit. That was a very slick thing to campaign on from many perspectives (hind sight being 20/20 and all). Plus ther is the little item about how we actually elected his boring ass.

I've been all about Gore since jump but I never expected him to be taken seriously again. I'm about it. I hope this Gore thing gains some speed.

If he's our next president, get excited.

i have nothing at all against gore, and i think it would be awesome to have an environmentalist in the white house. so if he could pull it off, i'd be stoked. but he really really fucked up in 2000. that was a very sad showing. he started out with a huge advantage and just blew it. he couldn't even win his home state. and look who he was running against. you can blame nader if you want, and sure that was a factor -- but ultimately it is gore's fault for running a terrible campaign. so forgive me if i am not ready to jump on this bandwagon, cause i'd actually like to see a dem win this time. and this is scary cause if there were a half way decent dem candidate, nobody would be getting all hot for al gore.

i have to agree with cite. if he can stay how he is now, that would be great. maybe losing in 2000 jarred him out of the "boring as all get out" attitude he had, and maybe he'll try to get some differently thinking campaign people this time. but i'm worried that maybe he just isn't good at campaigning. he's GREAT at policy, and he's incredibly smart, but unfortunately that's not good enough in out ignorant political climate. somehow, smart isn't good anymore.

i have the great embarrassment of being a florida resident who voted for nader in 2000, and in hindsite, i wish i hadn't, but at the time, Gore was just terrible. he was focus grouped to death, and as much as i didn't like bush, he wasn't OH MY GOD scary like he is now, so it wasn't life and death like it seems now. as sarah vowell said on the daily show, and i'm paraphrasing here, i am ashamed at my lack of imagination when thinking of ways that bush could screw up the country.

Gore will look good in the Edwards/Obama cabinet.

actually, i'm at work, so i'm not really doing anything (don't you love government employees), and i looked up the sarah vowell quote, because i love her. she is talking about the 2000 inauguration, and she says, "The failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind."

It was life and death in 2000. Some of us were out banging the drums even then. The writing was clearly on the wall.

She gets to be first lady if he wins, Dan. She's a fucking fascist who wants to censor the fuck out of TV and media, and has the power-broker stroke to make it happen if her husband assumes the Oval Office. Do you want that?

Joe Liebermann sees things Tipper's way; he wasn't Gore's running mate in 2000 for nothing. Tipper likely handpicked him for her husband.

I'd like to see Al Gore as Secretary of the Interior to President Wesley Clark.

Oy, but think of the primaries. Gore vs. Clinton- that would be some seriously ugly shit.

Until someone can proove to me that Clark is more than just an opportunist with his "Democrat" label, I'll never be able to support him.

And Gore is probably better working from the outside (although, I am seeing his movie tonight, so my views may change....we'll see).

Draft him into the Salvation Army. Will give him some marketable skills since he spent his last war in the shallow end of the typing pool.

so long as we get Barak as Veep.

Clark is creepy.

Wrong Al folks, our country won't be great until Al Sharpten is president! That would be so funkalicious.

Ok, seriously - Gore would be a great pres, but Tipper would have to be kept in her cage and the primary against Hillary would be brutal. So why not Edwards/Obama then have them appoint Al Gore as the chairman of the joint cheifs, delegate to the UN, Attorney General Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the next American Idol? Can we do that?

cite-->"yeah, that's a great investment...cause you know, he ran such a great campaign in 2000, i really hope we can get him to repeat that."

Well, after all is said and done, he ran a campaign that was good enough to WIN that election. He just didn't realize in time that he should have been aiming his campaign towards the nine votes on the Supreme Court instead of the voting public.

He's older and wiser now. And funnier too, to judge by his appearance on SNL a few weeks back. Hopefully Tipper's a little wiser as well. I'm with Dan on this one-- I'm not a big Tipper fan, but she's the smallest of small concerns in answering the question of who's the best man for the job.

Al Gore didn't write that SNL skit. Their writers did, and Gore simply did his lines. Minimal timing and presence required.

re: Tipper... you don't undo a lifetime of hate and knee-jerkery (that you carried well into your 40's) in eight years. The only famous example I can think of concerning someone who did was boxer George Foreman.

I don't trust anyone whose ear is in Tipper Gore's possession. I'd have much more confidence in Al Gore if he threw Tipper Gore off a bridge and she landed head-first on a spiky bed of rocks, especially if Gore's running mate sees things Tipper's way a la Liebermann. I cannot trust a Dem-controlled Congress with Tipper Gore and a handpicked minion ERRRRRR VP living just yards from the Oval Office.

Maybe Dan Savage has no intentions of continuing the publication of the Stranger past 2010, and THAT'S why he doesn't care about Tipper. The Stranger would no longer have the freedom to speak as they wished once Tipper gets her wanted overhaul of the FCC and the media. You think you could continue writing a syndicated sex advice column, Dan, in papers that are widely, freely available to the general public, if Tipper knows that CHILDREN could pick up your rags at any time and read them? And OMG sex ads! The negative influences heaped upon our children! There goes a chunk of your ad revenues, because that'd have to be illegal.

Seriously, Dan, did you just forget everything that Tipper Gore has ever said or done?

"Al Gore didn't write that SNL skit. Their writers did, and Gore simply did his lines. Minimal timing and presence required."

Wow.

just stfu. please.

You seriously think he wrote that whole thing himself, while surrounded by a castful of comedy writers? And *I* need to 'stfu please'?!