Bad idea

I think this is a really bad idea. Saying that Gore could be successful because he's comparable to Howard Dean seems to me to be really stupid. I mean, Dean didn't even win any primaries. MoveOn.org and internet funding was like, seriously overrated in the last campaign. Relying on "grassroots" Democrats and the "youth" vote to win is a huge mistake, one that's been demonstrated time and again in the last few elections. Take 2004, when the stakes couldn't have been higher, when I've never seen a higher level of engagement by people my age and younger, the big story was that the youth vote failed to show up, and handed the election to Bush. Are Democrats really willing to bet on this strategery again? Seems like a bad idea.

Furthermore, the last elections have been unkind to anti-war candidates. The country simply does not want a far-left candidate, which is what Gore has increasingly become. And is Gore even really credible as an anti-war candidate? I mean, sure, he's been vocal in his opposition since 2003. But he was vice president when Clinton signed into law the act which stated that regime change in Iraq was America's official policy; a policy which Bush continued. Would Gore not be then vulnerable to the same "I voted for it before I voted against it" attack that Kerry was?

And what does "antiwar hawk" mean, anyway? Again, Kerry tried to stake out a (let's be generous here and call it) "nuanced" position on the war, and he got hammered for it. "Antiwar hawk" seems just like the kind of wishy-washy, lawyer-y bullshit that Americans don't like.

I'm not attacking the guy's politics here, ok? I'm just saying that the Democrats have tried getting a guy like him elected before (not to mention trying to get this particular guy elected before), and it didn't work.

If the Democrats want to win elections, they can stake out a more responsible position on national security issues. Stop inviting Michael Moore to your conventions, and putting Jimmy Carter's ridiculously incompentent mug all over your shit. Start talking about real, measurable goals for success in Iraq. This entails actually stating said goals, not just saying that you need them. I'm looking at you, Joe Biden. Stop saying that America is the problem, and stop trying to cut the size and effectiveness of the military (*coughalgorecough*). I don't know of any wars that got started cos America's military was too big.