Day Eighteen, April 12

It's the kind of wishful thinking that makes the term 'tag team' a viable part of political jargon: 'Jimmy 'the Judge' Carter and Angry Albert Gore challenge Hillary 'Headhunter' Clinton to a handicapped match of POLITICAL PROPORTIONS. Next Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday!'

In a speculative piece that cannot but help but take me back to my salad days of wrestling fanhood, today Chris Stephen released this article, predicting that Gore and Carter will emerge in support of Obama in the coming weeks. The lengthy piece of writing pointed out how Gore and Carter have each been spited by the Clintons in the past, and the duo would stand to gain both personally and politically by tipping their hat to the Obama campaign. It's more than a little presumptive, and there's no way a blow like this would actually be made publicly before the Pennsylvania primary on April 22, but this is still a move the Democratic Party could use to get their game face on for the November election.

This late in the year (halfway through April, already?), such a move is a desperately-needed powerplay to bring some sutures to the increasingly deep schism between Democratic voters across the country. If these two 'supermen' of the Democratic party did act in support of Obama, and swayed the remaining undecided super delegates as Stephens predicts, the party could finally combine their efforts to get their chosen candidate into office next year. In spite of how strongly I feel about Obama, even if the tables were turned, and Barack was on the run in terms of popularity, delegates, and media attention, I'd still be fearful for how long this Democratic race could be drawn out. If Hillary is serious about taking the contest all the way to the DNC in August--and who would dare to think that she isn't?--then we have four more months of in-fighting and divisiveness to look forward to. I've never been a fan of Gore or Carter in their presidential/vice-presidential faculties, but nothing would please me more than the two of them to apply the chokehold of rationality to Senator Clinton. Of course, if this is what it takes
to put Clinton away in the race, well, perhaps it's best put this way: Senator Clinton...LET'S GET READY TO CRUMBBLLLLEEEE...