Why support Gore?

Written by: Scott Trimble on May 31, 2007 10:00 AM EDT

When he served for so long in the Senate riding down the middle of the road, then slid to the right for eight years in the Clinton White House, then chose Lieberman as a running mate AND failed to fight for his victory (as all evidence seemed then, and since to indicate that a full recount would have shown him to be the winner), and by doing so, failed to fight for the poor blacks in Florida who were disenfranchised illegally, and failed to fight for all of us to be free of the type of President who would steal an election, and worse, as we have since found out (although I'm sure many of us suspected it already)...just because he has  now slid slightly back to the left?  Why aren't grassroots groups like this fully behind Kucinich or Gravel, or at least arguing about which of those two to support?  Are you still buying into the establishment's "unelectable" categorization?  That's what a grassroots movement is supposed to fight against, that top-down mentality, that "we'll tell you who to vote for" culture that has been gradually taking over and destroying our democracy.  Why support someone who offers only the slight reprieve of a few years without a Republican in the White House? Why not support someone with a truly progressive vision who wants to truly break new ground and take us somewhere better than we have ever been before?  Why not support someone who wants to build a peace not built on fear, but a lasting peace built on establishing a more cooperative foreign policy?  Why not support someone who wants to provide Americans with a REAL universal health care system, rather than a facade that allows the insurance companies to continue to swindle us?

Gore seems to have had a transformation on environmental issues. Great! Offer him the Secretary of Energy or Secretary of the Interior job, but I have heard nothing from him suggesting that he's got any new and progressive vision on other issues, like empowering the people of America to become part of the decision-making process.

Gravel/Kucinich '08! 

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