An inconvenient fluke

Link courtesy of Drudge.
The Democrat electorate is split about 50/50 as to whether they want Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton as president, so if there's a deadlock going into the convention, the obvious choice is Al Gore.

“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.

Besides an idiot, Mahoney is a Democratic representative from Florida. I guess when your state has no say in the nominating process it doesn't matter if you actually select one of the primary candidates as your nominee. The common thought all along has been that if HRC is the nominee, all the Obama people will be pissed off and do something rash, and if Obama is the nominee, the HRC people will do the same. Anyone who's taken any basic logic class knows that the obvious conclusion that follows from these premises is that Al Gore should be the nominee.

I know it sounds like I'm against Al Gore as the Democratic nominee, but this would actually be a great event. The Obama and the Hillary people are both going to be in a tizzy if something like this happens, so McCain would all but have the presidency locked up.

UPDATE: Whenever I read an article involving a member of the House of Representatives, I like to see how they measure up on Club for Growth's RePork Card, which measures how the legislator voted to strip needless spending added on to bills. Mahoney scored an impressive 4%.