Follow these steps, and you are likely to get your diary on the Recommended List. At minimum, you will cause a significant percentage of the Dailykos community to suffer an interference of normal bodily functions due to uncontrollable exhiliration.
The time-tested 12-Step Gore Diary Program:
Step 1: Make sure your title indicates that Al Gore is going to run for President in 2008. Just saying in the title that you love Gore, hope Gore runs or that Gore could run might not get enough people to read your diary and get in to the rec list.
Step 2: Link to a vague, poorly researched report by some MSM whore. Never mind the fact that the MSM whore has been wrong countless times and likely has an ulterior motive. The people who will rec up your diary will not care.
Step 3: Make sure you the MSM whore you choose claims to have Al’s "close friend" or "longtime confidant" feeding the whore the information about Al running. Quoting "Democratic insiders" is so Winter 2006-2007.
Step 4: Include only the quotes and so-called evidence from the article that indicate that Al is running or might be running. Ignore all the quotes and evidence to the contrary that might be in the article. If you choose your MSM whore wisely, there will not be any contrary evidence.
Step 5: Include some content about how you heard Al speak recently at an environmental event (or at least have a "close friend" or "longtime confidant" who heard Al speak recently). Then say that the way Al talked, the passion he had, etc. just made you "feel" that he is running. Do not worry that neither you or the friend actually heard Al speak recently. The people who will rec up your diary will not ask any questions.
Step 6: Ignore all the other evidence that indicates Gore is not running or is not likely to run in 2008. The discussion of this evidence will only reduce the likelihood that you will make the rec list.
Step 7: Include meaningless anecdotal stories about how your Cousin So and So is a Republican, but that he/she will vote for Gore if he runs. This will make us Gore supporters conclude that Gore can win anybody over and alleviate our fear about him having such a polarizing effect.
Step 8: Ignore all the inconvenient evidence that indicates that Republicans hate Gore and very few of them could ever come to grips with the fact that he was correct and they were wrong, wrong, wrong. This evidence will only reduce the likelihood that you will make the rec list.
Step 9: Say that you are in Candidate So and So’s camp now, but that but that Al will make you throw your panties on the stage. This will make us Gore supporters conclude that Gore can win anybody over and alleviate our fear about him having such a polarizing effect.
Step 10: Throw in your own speculative timeline about Al winning the Nobel Prize, announcing his candidacy and storming to victory. Due to the fact that Edwards and Obama are the two leading candidates on this site, also say that Obama or Edwards should be the Vice-President.
Step 11: Most importantly, proofread your diary and make sure that EVERY SINGLE WORD just tells us Gore supporters EXACTLY what we want to hear and nothing else. Do not include any facts indicating that nobody (probably even Tipper and maybe even Al) knows at this time whether Al will run. No questions will be asked, and you will have a real shot at your first recommended diary.
Step 12: Before posting your diary, make sure that no "Al is Running" diary has recently been posted. Competing with another diary will only reduce the likelihood of getting on the rec list.