March 27, 2008 (LPAC)--In the sewers of the media and Internet blogs, and within the rumor-mills of the Democratic Party, the treasonous line is going out: that Albert "16 Tons" Gore should step forward to broker the Democratic Party convention in order to dump Hillary Clinton, and that maybe even Gore should head the Democratic ticket in November--with Barack Obama as his running-mate.

One of the first to raise this, six weeks ago, was the neo-con welfare case William Kristol. In a Feb. 11 column in the New York Times, Kristol hyped the ``momentum'' for what he hoped would be a series of upcoming Obama primary victories, but which still might not be enough to defeat Hillary. But then, Kristol scribbled, "there are as a final resort, two super-superdelegates ... who would have the clout to help Democrats achieve closure: Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi."

Since that time, many others have promoted the "Gore option;" among the latest, are the following:

Jason Horowitz, writing in the March 25 The New York Observer: "Wherefore, Gore? ... If he gets in at all, his part may be Mr Unity, after last primaries done."

Horowitz suggests that Gore's last chance to play a decisive role in the primary contest will be after the primaries are over in June, but before the Clinton camp can launch an all-out drive to make Obama unelectable. Of the prominent, still-uncommitted Democrats, "Gore is in the best position to deliver a death-blow to the Clinton campaign," Horowitz says, adding that most Democratic insiders assume, "with good reason, that if Mr. Gore did weigh in, it would be on the Obama side."

In Time magazine, Joe Klein's column of March 26 asks, "Is Al Gore the Answer?" and he predicts that "if this race continues to slide downhill, the answer to the Democrat Party's dilemma may turn out to be Al Gore." Klein projects a scenario in which the Democratic Party elders decide that neither Hillary or Obama is viable, so they convince 100 or so superdelegates to sit out the first vote at the Convention, denying both candidates the 2025 votes needed for nomination. They then approach Gore to be the nominee "for the good of the party"--with Obama as his running mate.

Klein adds that one prominent fund-raiser told him, "Gore-Obama is the ticket a lot of people [Who? London? Felix Rohatyn? Wall Street?] wanted in the first place."