Q: "Do you think Gore’s going to run?"
Bill Clinton: "Someone’s got to fizzle. If someone fizzles, then, yeah, he could enter the race."
That’s what was reported on the New York Post’s Page Six column last June. Here on the ‘Grok, we wrote extensively about Al Gore as one of the non-candidate candidates in the "un-campaign campaign" in full swing at the time. Of him, I wrote
As I have noted here, here, and here, there is a very good chance that AlGore could toss his hat into the ’08 presidential ring. He’s a movie star. He’a an author. He’s a credible candidate, with a sizeable number of people believing he won the 2000 election. My guess is that he could potentially regain nearly every one of the voters who cast a ballot for him in that race. With global warming as the cause du jour, and the attendant hysteria continuing with no end in sight, an AlGore cast as the hero ready to save the day could very well be a shoo-in for the White House.
While I was wrong about Gore jumping in during the primary, as the Democratic race carries on, ruling him out altogether is still not possible. With both of that Party’s candidates rapidly losing their luster as they exchange pot shots in the prolonged campaign, re-opening old racial divides in the process, and no clear winner seemingly possible by convention time, there is still a chance that Al Gore could end up the winner. Writing at TCPalm.com, Mark Tomasik reports on a recent conversation he had with a Florida Democratic "superdelegate":
U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, whose district includes much of Martin and St. Lucie counties, is hoping he won’t have to attend the Democratic Party national convention in Denver in August.
If he does go, that will mean the Democrats still haven’t decided a nominee for the presidential election. And if neither Sen. Hillary Clinton nor Sen. Barack Obama has clinched the nomination by August, Mahoney says we may see a brokered convention, meaning the nominee could emerge from a negotiated settlement.
"If it (the nomination process) goes into the convention, don’t be surprised if someone different is at the top of the ticket," Mahoney said.
A compromise candidate could be someone such as former vice president Al Gore, Mahoney said last week during a meeting with this news organization’s editorial board.
If either Clinton or Obama suggested to a deadlocked convention a ticket of Gore-Clinton or Gore-Obama, the Democratic Party would accept it, Mahoney said.
As a Republican, I’m not sure I want to see this. More and more, I am viewing November with guarded optimism, taking comfort in the growing reality that with each passing day, neither of the two Democratic candidates looks like they will appeal to enough Americans to win the election. The fresh face of a late entry Al Gore might be another story. But then again, he too is in a race against time, thanks to the growing scientific evidence making its way into the media seemingly putting the lie to global warming orthodoxy.
Pass the popcorn! 
After all, "Someone’s got to fizzle." Heh!
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