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Kreidler runs again, DeBolt-Gore ticket inevitable
Insurance Mike Kreidler has announced he's running again, not a surprise.
“Washington consumers deserve a strong and independent leader to protect their right to prompt and fair treatment by insurers at reasonable costs,” says the Democrat.
The big surprise long predicted by House Republican Leader Richard DeBolt, however, gets a spin in Time Magazine this week: Al Gore as the Democratic nominee for president.
Pish-tosh, you say, and you're probably right. But let's play a little. Let's say the elders of the Democratic Party decide, when the primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is viable. Let's also assume—and this may be a real stretch—that such elders are strong and smart enough to act.
So writes Joe Klein, going on to outline a workable, if unlikely, sequence that could put the former vice president on top of the ticket.
DeBolt, we confess, is unlikely to be there with him. But he should at least get a nice card from the Fortune Tellers Association, since he predicted Gore would win the Nobel Prize and take the nomination before even the first part came true.
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