Steve Stark,

the Boston Phoenix's national politics guy, has definitively run out of ideas in April of a Presidential election year.
That is a sad indictment of the man's ability as a pundit...bereft of material, otherwise why would he be shilling for a dark horse presidential candidacy from Al Gore???!!!

The problem with most of today's punditariat is that they are over-paid, under talented, decadent and lazy to a fault.
Steve wants Al in the race because he thinks it'll perk up his own lame-ass copy...I mean has the guy had anything worthwhile to say since January?
Besides the voluptuary in Steve wants to spend the fall rehashing Love Canal, Who invented the internet and provided the inspiration for "Love Story".

The fact that the rest of us are on the cusp of paying $10 a gallon for gasoline at the pump gats no heat with the Steve Starks of the world.
The world is falling apart out there, and all Steve can think is reliving the glory days of campaign 2000.
No Steve's ilk are bored...life isn't exciting enough for them, with no third party harlequinade on the horizon they are reduced to shilling for their favorite whipping boy, Al Gore.
Fortunately the former Vice President is too smart for this lot, granted that isn't say much...but it is clear Al doesn't want in. He fully understands the debased character of the national media as it relates to democrats in general and Al Gore in particular.
So look for Steve to start shilling for Ralph Nader or Roger Clemens or Pat Paulsen or cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch next week.
Anything to relieve the boredom...