{"id":812,"date":"2002-12-17T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2002-12-18T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/18\/goodbye-gore-hello\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:45:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:45:36","slug":"goodbye-gore-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/17\/goodbye-gore-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Gore, hello&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15620,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.backupbrain.com\\\/2002_12_15_archive.html#a003160&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080706044030\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.backupbrain.com\\\/2002_12_15_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:22:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:11:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:11:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Now that Al Gore has decided to step out of the ring for the next presidential race, the field looks pretty wide open. A few months ago, or even now, there wouldn&#8217;t be much chance of ousting Dubya from office, but who knows where things might stand in a couple years. In the meantime, I don&#8217;t really know much about any of the other potential Democratic candidates, so it was nice to see a quick rundown on the current possibilities over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupbrain.com\/2002_12_15_archive.html#a003160\" title=\"I have to say...\">BackupBrain last Sunday<\/a>. Definitely gives me an idea of who to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Lieberman:<\/strong> He&#8217;ll definitely run. &#8230;but there&#8217;s not a chance in hell that he could win against Bush in the general. Deplorably, there are too many people in this country that still will not vote for a Jew for president.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Kerry:<\/strong> He&#8217;s already running. &#8230;my issue with Kerry is part of the problem that Gore has: he&#8217;s so cautious, you think that everything coming out of his mouth has been pre-digested, run by a focus group, and vetted six ways from Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Edwards:<\/strong> Not this time, John. He&#8217;s smart, attractive, and he&#8217;s from the South, all of which helps a winner. But he&#8217;s a first-term senator, and he&#8217;s still finding out how things work in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Gephardt:<\/strong> He&#8217;s run for president before. He lost. &#8230;under his fabulous leadership, last month Democrats lost the best chance to regain the House for the next decade. He&#8217;s on the wrong side of many issues for me.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Daschle:<\/strong> He&#8217;s been a crappy Majority Leader. Period. Last week, he let Trent Lott off the hook for his racist comments, for pity&#8217;s sake. He can&#8217;t see a friggin&#8217; red-meat issue when it slaps him in the face.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Howard Dean:<\/strong> (who?) This guy is already running. &#8230;at the moment, he&#8217;s the candidate with the best lineup on the issues. He&#8217;s a doctor, has, by all accounts, been a pretty good governor, and is fiscally conservative and socially liberal. That works for me. &#8230;I like this quote: &#8220;I have no patience with ideologues. I think they&#8217;re fundamentally disturbed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Biden, Feingold, Dodd, Wesley Clark:<\/strong> Puh-leeze.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Al Gore has decided to step out of the ring for the next presidential race, the field looks pretty wide open. I don&#8217;t really know much about any of the other potential Democratic candidates, so it was nice to see a quick rundown on the current possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}