Operation Gore Watch

Kudos to the editorial staff of the University of Washington’s “Daily.”

In yesterday’s paper, an editorial raised an interesting suggestion: How about Al Gore waits until 2012 to run for president, but on the Green Party ticket.

Citing Gore quotes from the Time Magazine story, “The Last Temptation of Al Gore”, it is obvious, the editorial said, that Gore needs to wait a bit longer to make his run.

They write:

“With Gore’s popular support and the Green Party’s national infrastructure, the Greens might be established as a credible third political party by 2010; and then, with Iraq hopefully behind us, America may finally be ready to entertain the possibility of electing a president that will tackle climate change and put America on the path to sustainable environmentalism. What better 2012 candidate for the Greens, and for America, than Al Gore?”

Point taken. But can Americans bank on the instability of the Green Party? I still find it hard to believe that they can only keep running 73-year-old Ralph Nader out there.

(P.S. - Kudos to Nader for sending all 1,300 or so students at the Medill School of Journalism copies of “What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News” by Eric Alterman)

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