Why Obama has a chance
By Andrew Warner
Former Vice-President and hit filmmaker Al Gore was recently quoted as
saying, "I kind of fell out of love with the political process."
And why wouldn't he? The process sucks. Since resurfacing with his hit
documentary, he's fielded countless questions on how he feels
about the 2000 race and the way in which his campaign was put to a
painful, abrupt death.
If you pay attention to his answers, you'll
notice he blames listening to some bum advice and playing it too safe
are some of his biggest regrets.
Eight years later, we're still watching political contortionists try
to stretch themselves in such a way that pleases everybody, from gay
communists in San Francisco to closeted-gay Bible thumpers in Alabama,
all of the time – which usually ends up pleasing nobody. The folly of
both Al Gore and John Kerry.
The best examples: Mitt Romney, the Mormon Governor of Massachusetts,
and Hillary Clinton, the carpet-bagging Senator of New York.
Romney somehow got elected to be in charge of one of our union's most
liberal states – who would ever think that they would elect a
Republican Mormon? Had he not done a political about-face when he
decided to run for President, he would deserve a tip of the hat.
A man
or woman who can unite the divided bipartisan nature of our country
deserves a great deal of credit. Unless of course it was just a plot
to land a cozy job in the White House and secret service benefits for
the rest of your life.
Andrew Sullivan, a small government conservative, has been skewering
Romney for his apparent ideological 180:
Everything he said in the 1990s is now to be dismissed. He
was once for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act; now he's against
it. He was once for domestic partnerships for gays; now he's against
them. He was once for ending the ban on gays in the military; now he's
for keeping it.
Not to be outdone, Clinton bends ideologically in ways that should
land her a contract with Cirque du Soleil. When she moved to New York
to get her guaranteed Democratic victory, she was viewed as far too
"left" for the country as a whole. Since then she has been tirelessly
working to earn some Evangelical/Middle-America street cred by
fighting unwholesome video games, supporting a war widely hated by
Democrats, and trying to ban flag-burning.
So like I said, it's no wonder Al Gore soured to the "political
process." Few people can sell their soul so completely just to further
their careers – those who do become President.
Because of this, voters are throwing out the standard question they
ask of all politicians. Liberal or Conservative? Those labels are
being replaced with two new, far more appropriate categories: Full of
crap and politically inexperienced – That's why Obama has a chance.
December 20, 2006
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