More Fantasist Than Global Warming

....is the rumor currently emerging of the possible result of a brokered Democrat convention this summer (via Newsmax):

Don’t count Al Gore completely out of the presidential picture just yet.

That’s the view from across the pond at the Telegraph in Britain, which outlines a scenario that could put the avowed non-candidate at the head of the Democratic ticket.

Saying the momentum has shifted to Barack Obama after a string of primary and caucus victories, Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod told the Telegraph, “We closed a twenty-point gap in the national polls in the last two weeks. The more people are exposed to his message, the better he does.”

Good thing B.O.'s "message" rarely if ever bears a faint hint of policy specificity, then.  Leaves all kind of room for the kind of gauzy, gaseous "hope" shinola that has his audiences swooning like healees at a Benny Hinn crusade.

Kinda makes Our Mr. Hussein the counterpoint to Fat Albert, doesn't it?  Until you start requiring policy specificity, that is.

But [Axelrod] added: “We are up against the Clinton machine. We are the perpetual underdog and will be throughout this process. We’re ready to go all the way to the convention.”

The Clinton camp reportedly believes that if Obama doesn’t deliver a knock-out blow before the March 4 primaries in Texas and Ohio, Hillary could win those races and regain the momentum, with many superdelegates uniting behind her to preserve party unity.

Hillary will win Texas and Ohio.  She's leading in the former by three and the latter by ten.  The Empress is also up eight in Rhode Island and fourteen in Pennsylvania.  Combine those delegate margins with the couple dozen she'll net from forcing the seating of the Michigan and Florida delegations in Denver this August and the small lead the Dalai Obama has built up recently will melt right back to stalemate.

Admittedly, it isn't the Rodham walkover I was expecting, but can you really picture the Pepsi Center being the ground zero for this?:

That could lead to bitter battles at the Democratic convention in August, “which could even end with Al Gore, the former vice president, emerging as a compromise candidate,” according to the Telegraph.

A Clinton source told the paper: “There’s a 5% chance of that happening, but that’s 5% too high.”

Gentlebeings, there's not a minus-five percent chance of that happening.  I don't know what it would take for the Democrats to manage to lose this election, but if there's any way it could happen, screwing over the Clintons AND the ebony JFK in favor of recycling the Tennessee 2x4 could be it.

But it begs the question: who in the Democrat Party has the stroke, much less the deathwish, to screw the Clintons?  Hell, I can see Mrs. Clinton forcing her way onto the veep spot on an Obama ticket and then arranging for his subsequent assassination (blamed, of course, on the "vast right-wing conspiracy") so that she can ascend to her rightful pinnacle before I'd buy the notion of Gore-Anybody II.

Sounds like emptyheaded, hero-worshipping speculation worthy of the Guardian, if you ask me.