More Steak Dinners for Al Gore and Me.
WIth all the fixinsRoss Douthat makes a compelling case that VP candidates who go down to defeat are near-locks to go down to defeat in the future. But he messed up - and I may get a steak dinner out of it. Laying out what we both take to be the improbable scenario where Edwards beats Hillary and Obama, Ross declares:
...I'd bet a steak dinner that a certain former Vice-President will use the opening to jump into the race with both feet - because if the Democratic front-runner is a one-term Senator with zero foreign-policy experience, then the nomination will be Al Gore's for the taking, and I doubt that he'll be able to resist. - Ross Douthat
I accept the bet.
I agree that the nomination would be Al Gore's for the taking. If Gore "Pulled a Nixon" (which is how this should be described) while Hillary was still the presumed front-runner, we'd all love the drama/tedium of it all. But if Edwards does the improbable (which is the condition under which this bet becomes live), Gore will not enter this race. If Gore were entering this race, or even thinking of entering this race, he'd be dropping weight fast. I'm willing to bet this steak dinner on the premise that because he hasn't signed up for Furey's Combat abs yet - he's not about to do it again. If he looks like this in five months, I'm done in. Right now, he still looks more like this.
Go Edwards! Erm, oh no.
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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