Scarborough: Gore, take the dive; throw your hat in the ring

Gore, take the dive; throw your hat in the ring
Scarborough: Only Gore can beat Giuliani, McCain in defense debate

COMMENTARY
By Joe Scarborough

Richard Nixon suffered quietly for eight years.

From the night of his 1960 loss to John Kennedy to the morning in 1968 when he learned he had barely beaten Hubert Humphrey, Nixon was a former vice president who believed that fate — and dirty politicians — had dealt him a bad hand.

Most of Nixon’s political team believed that JFK’s old man had stolen the 1960 election through mob ties and massive voter fraud that swung Cook County, which swung Illinois, which swung the election for Kennedy. The fact that many political observers at the time agreed with Richard Nixon provided cold comfort for the ex-vice president.

He wandered in the political wilderness for eight years.

Anyone vaguely familiar with Nixon’s long path to the presidency who was watching the Oscars had to be thinking that history was aligning Gore’s fate with that of the 37th president. And judging from my discussion with Joe Klein and Pat Buchanan last night on Scarborough Country, political experts are beginning to believe that Al Gore may be the last Democrat standing in 2008.

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