Posted by Dan Ewert : 8/09/2003 12:59:00 AM (Archive Link)
While Al Gore has repeatedly stated that he’s not running for president in 2004, it isn’t stopping Mario Cuomo from trying to push Al into the race anyway. Cuomo’s reasons for doing so are… well… bad. He says, “Right now, the Democratic voice is not a single voice. It is not a chorus. It is a babble.” He wants Gore to join the race because there’s no single voice for the Democrats to rally around. People… it’s August of 2003. The primaries aren’t until late January and the general election isn’t until next November. That’s six and fourteen months away, respectively. Of course there’s no single candidate to rally around. Of course there’s a lot of babble. That’s what happens when you have multiple candidates vying for one spot. It’s natural. By late February, though, it will be pretty apparent who the Democratic nominee will be and that person will be your guy to rally around. So stop whining.