Al Gore Warns Americans: Don’t Vote For Third Party

By: Robert F. DeFinis, Ed.D. 

Where has Al Gore been during the 2016 presidential election season? We didn’t see him at the Democratic National Convention because he had a prior commitment, it took him six weeks to give a less than enthusiastic endorsement of his former boss’s wife after she became the presumptive nominee, and unlike many other high profile Democrats, he isn’t out there stumping for Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail.

Maybe he isn’t thrilled that Hillary could very well become the next President in a landslide, or maybe be he’s bitter over his complicated past with the Clinton family. Either way, it’s clear that Gore is not completely over his failed 2000 bid for the White House.

Since leaving politics, the former Vice President has continued his work as an environmental crusader, picking up some hardware, like an Oscar for his documentary An Inconvenient Truth and a Nobel Peace Prize. Not too shabby for the inventor of the internet (no, he did not invent the internet, and technically didn’t take credit for it either). Although Gore has shied away from the political spotlight for the most part, he’s still seen as a political heavyweight among Democrats. So when Gore cautions people against a third-party candidate, some are likely to listen in.

Recently, Gore was interviewed about his thoughts on climate change, 2016 candidates, and a third-party option. We all know that Gore, and those on the left, continue to blame the Green Party’s Ralph Nader for producing a “spoiler effect” that handed the election to George W. Bush. However, this is a complete myth. Nader took about 95,000 votes in the swing state of Florida, which became the focal point of the 2000 contested election.

Assuming that each one of those votes would have been an absolute vote for Gore (virtually impossible), you still have the 308,000 Democrats that voted for Bush and 190,000+ “liberal leaning” voters doing the same thing. If we add in the fact that Gore lost his own state of Tennessee while enjoying an economic surge, all we are left with is another politician blaming voters and not taking responsibility for their own failures as a candidate.

Al Gore is not a victim to some “third-party monster” that spoiled his hopes and dreams of becoming president, nor will Clinton or Donald Trump be one. Democrats and Republicans would have you believe that there are only two choices on the menu, and for a long time that may have been the case. However as this election unfolds, the theme of “more options” transcends the reality of two not-so-favorable options. Yes, Libertarians still have a few mountains to climb and issues to resolve, but there is clear momentum for something more than the two-party system, and that is an “inconvenient truth” for some.

 

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