One for the road, as we pack up Thanksgiving dinner and hit the road to Minnesota.



Steve Chapman, in today's Chicago Tribune:

Watching Al Gore make his re-entry into the public arena after nearly two years out of the spotlight, I can say with confidence that there is a substantial group of people who want him to run for president again in 2004. They're called Republicans.



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When [Gore] says, "I think there is virtue in just taking an unvarnished position as to what the best solution may be, and let the chips fall where they may," he brings to mind Richard Nixon walking on the beach in a suit and wingtips.



How long, you have to wonder, did Gore spend coming up with that formulation? He can no more be unscripted and spontaneous in a political setting than Nixon could walk around in public shirtless and barefoot.



That's not necessarily Gore's fault. It's just his makeup. As with John Kennedy's struggle to feign physical vigor despite his many debilitating infirmities, you can even see it as a heroic effort to overcome the cruel limitations imposed by nature. But JFK couldn't make himself healthy by filling himself full of pills and potions. And Gore, even in the supposed liberation conferred by defeat, can't shuck all the habits instilled by a lifetime in the bosom of official Washington.

I hope, for his sake, that Gore doesn't run again. While I think he'd have made a terrible president, he is clearly a bright man. Insufferable, but bright. He should apply his talents elsewhere. It's time to walk away, Al.

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