{"id":7437,"date":"2006-05-17T13:11:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T17:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7437"},"modified":"2006-05-17T13:11:33","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T17:11:33","slug":"you-always-have-to-worry-about-a-relapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/you-always-have-to-worry-about-a-relapse\/","title":{"rendered":"‘You always have to worry about a relapse’"},"content":{"rendered":"

This AP story<\/a> on [tag]Al Gore[\/tag] covers relatively familiar ground, but it’s worth considering anyway.<\/p>\n

Al [tag]Gore[\/tag] is running to California, New York, Utah, Washington, France and points in between to promote “An Inconvenient Truth,” a film chronicling his elaborate slide shows to educate people about global warming.<\/p>\n

But is the former vice president running for [tag]president[\/tag] again? The answer, he says, is no. Some Democrats are not so sure.<\/p>\n

“I’m a recovering politician on about Step 9,” Gore told The Associated Press. “But I’m on a different kind of campaign now — to persuade people to take action to solve the climate crisis, and it’s always easier when you’re focused on one thing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are a couple of things to consider. First, the party establishment seems to be warming to Gore a bit. The story included a quote from Kathleen Sullivan, chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, saying, “For some people, it took six years of George Bush to wake up and realize that Al Gore was the real deal.” For that matter, Joe Trippi added, “If he’s the guy we see today, I think he’d be formidable.”<\/p>\n

Second, the article, written by veteran political reporter Ron Fournier, didn’t include a single cheap shot. Nothing about inventing the Internet, nothing about Love Story, no references to Gore being “stiff.” I’m not prepared to say the media would finally give this guy a fair shot if he re-entered the political ring, but it was a pleasant surprise to see a snide-free piece.<\/p>\n

Third, Gore must be making some folks on the right nervous, because they’re going after him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And fourth, Gore’s denials apparently aren’t always as categorical as they seem. By way of Taegan Goddard<\/a>, it seems the former Vice President recently had a slightly different message after an event in Atlanta, telling well-wishers<\/a>, “Like I said, I’m a recovering politician. But you always have to worry about a relapse.”<\/p>\n

If accurate, Gore’s remark suggests he’s at least thinking about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This AP story on [tag]Al Gore[\/tag] covers relatively familiar ground, but it’s worth considering anyway. Al [tag]Gore[\/tag] is running to California, New York, Utah, Washington, France and points in between to promote “An Inconvenient Truth,” a film chronicling his elaborate slide shows to educate people about global warming. But is the former vice president running […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}