Carrots And Sticks
link Al Gore and the 2016 presidential landscape – Videos – CBS News.
Oh boy, just when people thought the shoe-in was a done deal, Hillary’s recent mis-steps with information disclosure have made even her ardent supporters a bit queasy. The trouble is, when you’re ‘all in’ with the presumptive candidate, there’s no real back up plan.
That Hillary would be the flag bearer for the Dems has been accepted as much a given as finding hipsters at Starbucks. For years, Hillary has been the big tree in the Dem garden, absorbing all the light and nutrients to the detriment of all other plant life. Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and even Jerry Brown are like mushrooms growing in the shade of the big Hillary tree.
Now however, some are ruminating about other possible candidates to lead the Democratic charge. And speaking of fungus, the name Al Gore is offered as a possibility.
Al Gore. That corpulent charlatan of climate catastrophe. He’s the guy that thinks that the science of global warming is settled. How? By a show of hands, that’s how. And if you don’t believe it, you should be punished. There are rumors that the ISIS nutters have been buying his training videos. By himself, he’s not dangerous, but the fact that he can still command a paid audience should be frightening to anyone with the reasoning ability beyond that of a 5 year old.
On the other side of the political spectrum, Donald Trump has also been making noises about running in 2016. This guy promises to make every one rich when he becomes President, an update on the classic “chicken in every pot” promise from generations ago. While this may sound attractive, in fact this message is aimed at the same set of low information voters that are presently supporting the other party. Both of these guys are cut from the mold of the old style travelling religious revival shows. One’s message is “Repent Now or Else!” whereas the other one’s is “Get Rich Like Me!” as if he were a non Asian Tom Vu. So while one is dangling carrots, the other is dangling a stick. What a choice; to be gored or to be trumped. We kind of hope they both wind up in the election circus.