Run, Al, Run
May 31st, 2006 at 7:14 am by Susie
Guess we’ll just have to change his mind:
Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as “a renegade band of rightwing extremists”.
In an interview with the Guardian today, the former vice-president calls himself a “recovering politician”, but launches into the political fray more explicitly than he has previously done during his high-profile campaigning on the threat of global warming.Denying that his politics have shifted to the left since he lost the court battle for the 2000 election, Mr Gore says: “If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right.”
But he claims he does not “expect to be a candidate” for president again, while refusing explicitly to rule out another run. Asked if any event could change his mind, he says: “Not that I can see.”
The media would smear Al as a loon for using expressions like ‘right-wing extremists’, just like they mocked Hillary’s ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’. And it would work.
But if the country takes a nosedive economically, people would cry for change, and there would be nobody better than Al.