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Last May I went way out on a limb and predicted that Al Gore would run for president in ’08. I’ll go out on the thinker end this time and say that it is even more likely. So, far my prognostications are holding up well. I didn’t see the Allen “macaca meltdown”, of course, but I suspected he would falter in some way. The Senate win was a surprise. There was no way to predict then just how much the corruption, and the Foleygate mess would impact the already faltering Republicans.

I am now thinking more and more that he will run and that he will ask Ed Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania to run with him (instead of the governor of Kansas, who I thought might join the ticket back then.)

Gore will win an Academy Award in April, a Nobel Peace Prize in November and then the Democratic nomination. He will enter the primaries late in the game, but he will be well financed this time, and Obama and Clinton will have had at each other (and the media will have had at them) long enough that Democrats across the spectrum will be eager for him to take the nomination and win the election.

Gore is right on the war – and he can end it swiftly. He will have the wind at his back in Europe – he can engage in a regional conversation about the Middle East that Bush cannot do. He is of course right on global warming – he can create the necessary momentum to get business behind going green because they will actually get more greenbacks when they do. And he will be right with the media who are increasingly aware that Bush hoodwinked them in 2000, and that Gore may not be the two by four that they had created.

It’s his time.