Another Al Gore
That’s Dick Morris’ opinion after Gore’s hyperbolic speech in Saudi Arabia. In his latest column for Jewish World Review, he takes a good shot at Hillary, too. Here’s that shot:
Could Al beat Hillary? If Mrs. Clinton persists in her support of the Iraq war, he could. But never count on Hillary losing an election over a principle. It’s a bad bet.
OUCH!!! I’m sure she could care less but Morris is right on the money with that analysis. It also plays into the ‘Clinton image’ because they’ve shown that their main overriding principle is that of staying in power. All other considerations come in a distant second.
So what does Morris think of Al’s chances?
The former vice president’s slashing attacks on the administration and his stalwart, if misguided, opposition to the Iraq war leave him without the complications and complexes that will devil Clinton as she seeks to appeal to the unforgiving left of the Democratic Party.
And Gore may be a man whose time has come in his party. It was he who warned of climate change and predicted its consequences. Hurricane Katrina was just a fulfillment of the prophesies Gore wrote about in his late-1980s book Earth in the Balance. He has been an energy-conservation nut for years, and his obsessions with alternatives to oil will play better and better as we come to realize how our addiction to oil has led us to dependency on the dealers of this particular drug, Iran, the Saudi royal family and Hugo Chavez.
In other words, he’s just right in the Kossacks’ eyes. Too bad that they’re so far removed from America’s political mainstream. Attaching yourself to their ideology for the primaries is instant death in the general campaign.
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing