Run, Al, Run
May 17th, 2006 at 6:15 pm by Susie
Whether Al Gore ends up running in 2008 or not, he is modeling the way our public figures, and especially our would-be presidents, should be operating — from the heart and true to themselves. Standing for something more important than just winning, and more powerful than the fear of losing.
Candidates — and especially Democratic ones — need to stop fooling themselves that the road to victory is paved with pandering.
Someone should shoot a training film for the Democrats, featuring Gore as a D.C. version of Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now. As the Election Day bombs of 2000, 2002, and 2004 drop all around him, he sucks in the fumes and declares: “I loathe the smell of fear on a candidate. It smells like… defeat.”
I didn’t read it yet, but that is so fucking cool!