Big Blue

Call it the Hyper Schwarzenegger Effect. Under the plain old Schwarzenegger Effect you can be anyone famous with no political skills and be elected; your notoriety in an apathetic political culture guarantees election. The Hyper Schwarzenegger Effect on the other hand links celebrity and political acumen.

And believe it or not, the often robotic Al Gore's got it now. And to my mind that makes him the best candidate to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008. I know that Hillary Clinton is seen to be the forerunner but do you really think she'll have a chance in the red states? George Bush could run around stark naked in the White House rosegarden masturbating to gay porn tomorrow and the red states would still consider her a lesbian (what a haircut) liberal from the north and choose her opponent, any opponent however qualified.

But Big Al on the other hand is from Tennessee, just the right place for the next Democratic president to hail from. Better still, he's got a new movie on the big screen. He's been a senator, the vice President, he's filthy rich (a must if you're to be president), he had a cool beard since shaved off which might portend a presidential run, he won/lost the 2000 election so has something to prove. Now does he have the guts to put himself forward?

Hillary can be his vice presidential candidate and after 8 years of Goremania (no not Gore Vidal) she'll be primed to replace him. By then maybe the red states would be ready for her.