I wish, I wish, I wish that being smart wasn’t a liability for a politician.
I wish, I wish, I wish that wonkishness was seen as a virtue, and not a defect.
I wish, I wish, I wish that voters would focus more on what politicians do and less on what they say.
And I wish, I wish, I wish that a major political figure could get some currency out of the fact that he’s been right on virtually every major issue of the past two decades.
But alas, it seems not to be, and this is why many people believe that Al Gore is and always will be fatally defective as a Presidential candidate. But perhaps not as a Vice-President again, serving as the heft behind a younger pol like Obama or Warner?
I don’t think he’ll do it. And for what it’s worth, I think Gore would be–far and away–the strongest President (not candidate) of all the names being floated in 2008. But still, intriguing thought, no?
Via Andrew Sullivan