Draft Gore

If he would just decide to run, I'd vote for him in a heartbeat. Who? Al Gore. That's right, Al Gore. Not only is he actively, passionately trying to communicate the dangers of global warming across the world, but it seems he's the only voice of reason left in US politics. In an passage from his new book "The Assault on Reason", excerpted in Time, Gore writes:

"Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions?" The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable.

And:

We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science. We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth. Americans in both parties should insist on the re-establishment of respect for the rule of reason.

Gore is right. We've got to get rid of pseudoscience and religion from politics. We've got to launch a new Age of Reason. Draft Gore in 2008!