Reuters:

“I have no plans to run,” he said in the interview at Oslo’s City Hall. Gore, a Democrat, lost the 2000 election to George W. Bush.

“I haven’t ruled out the idea of getting back into the political process at some point in the future — (I) don’t expect to,” Gore said. “But if I did get back, it would be as a candidate for president, not in any other position.”

That clarifies matters for us all.

Not that I couldn’t vote, with varying degrees of cheerfulness, for any of the fine crop of Democratic candidates. But still…