Sunday, April 22, 2007

Gore's Not So Secret Campaign Run?

How is it that anyone can say with a straight face that Gore is assembling a campaign committee to explore yet another run for the President in secret? He might keep saying that he has no intention of running, and the poll numbers stand in stark opposition to his running, but that doesn't mean he doesn't think about running all the time and what could have been.

He's getting plenty of free publicity simply by not running at this point. One of the problems of declaring as early as so many candidates have done on both sides of the aisle is that they have to burn through the contributions they've raised thus far to stay even with other candidates. Gore has no such problem given that he's got a critically acclaimed movie that has kept him in the public eye and a new book coming out later this spring to again curry free publicity.

The idea that Gore might run is the same kind of seductive logic behind a draft Fred Thompson run among GOPers. It seems that the candidate that isn't running is the one that people want to vote for - until they actually begin reading through their positions and getting to know what he's all about.

And in that respect, people will quickly realize that all the negatives that dogged Gore in the past are going to return.

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