The high priest of the Church of Global Warming has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Leaving aside that al Gore's proselytizing environmentalism has nothing to do with peace, what does the award signify?

For starters, al Gore gets a nice medal he can display on the mantle next to his Academy Award and the ribbon he got when he was voted class clown in ninth grade.

There's also a rather large cash award that he has to share with the UN IPCC (think of them as the bishops and cardinals.) al Gore's share ought to cover his utility bills,  travel expenses and the carbon offsets he buys from his own company for at least a year.

But mostly what it means is that al Gore is not going away anytime soon. We will have to suffer this fool for at least another decade.

Our only hope is that his belief in his own importance to the world convinces him that he should enter the race for President.

I say this our only hope because if he enters the race as a Democrat, Hillary Clinton will eat him alive. Any slightly tawdry less than boy scout behavior from al Gore's years as Vice President will suddenly be unearthed by a press that ignored them when he ran against George Bush.

His defeat by Hillary would be so thorough and humiliating that it would make his post 2000 election days as a bloated bearded professor seem like good times. It would be the end of al Gore as a public figure.

An even better scenario would be if  al Gore decided to run as a third party candidate. Do you think the Green' s will have him?

No doubt Hillary would destroy him. But she would have to do it in the context of a general election and al Gore would still draw enough votes to cost Hillary the throne.

The day the next Republican President takes the oath of office, al Gore would become the most hated person on the left. Between that and the dirt from the campaign, it would be the end of al Gore as a public figure.

And that would be prize for us all.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 12:28 PM | No Comments | Add Comment