The 2008 Democratic nominee for President will be: Al Gore? The idea is not as ridiculous as it seems, according to US Representative Tim Mahoney. He tells the TCPalm:

“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.

Mahoney, who is one of the superdelegates who gets to cast a vote at the convention, hasn’t endorsed a candidate.

Come to think of it, Al Gore has been awfully quiet lately, hasn’t he? Still, I have a hard time imagining the Democrats throwing away the votes of every single Democrat in the country who voted in their state’s primary (or caucus).

Actually, I take that back: I can imagine the Democrats doing that. But I can’t imagine Hillary or Barack suggesting they be relegated to Vice-President so Gore can cruise into the nomination. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so who knows?