How Gore could solve the Dem dilemma [w/poll]

Yes, another gratuitous Al Gore diary--or not.

There has been a lot of ink spilled recently about Al Gore playing deus ex machina at or before the Denver convention, swooping in to either be the ultimate superdelegate, or to be the compromise nominee for president should Obama and Clinton not be able to win outright.

All of this supposes Obama does not tie or win PA [which may or may not be probable], or that Obama or Clinton doesn't make a major gaffe and doom their candidacies.  Personally, I believe Obama has a decent shot at PA--no repugs to help Clinton out--and anything less than a 10 pt win is basically a loss for Clinton because of what happened in Ohio.

So how does Gore fix the Democrats' dilemma?

Assuming we go to the convention with no nominee, Gore is put forward as the compromise.  Here's how he does it:  he offers Obama the VP and pledges both Obama and Clinton that he will only serve 1 term, stepping aside so that Obama and Clinton can have another shot at 2012.

Sounds crazy?  But think what this would allow Gore to do with the Climate Change issue!  He would have every reason to fast-track it, and he'd punish either Obama or Clinton if they didn't do everything possible to facilitate his agenda between 08 and 12.  He'd probably have to get guarantees from Dem congressional leaders that they would be on board as well.

A Gore/Obama ticket would win by a historical landslide.  It would give Obama his 'experience', national exposure, and would provide Clinton with a way out of the corner she is slowly backing into, and another path to the presidency.

Okay, so now you all can have a shot at me, but I was the first who wrote weeks ago that Clinton was trying to extort the Dems to either pick her or ruin Obama's chances in 08 so that she could win in 2012.  That meme is now conventional thinking both here in the blogosphere and in the MSM, though nobody who says it now gets flamed as I did weeks ago.