Gore 2008

It's beginning to look as if Al Gore is thinking of running in 2008.

Gore spokesman Mike Feldman confirms that the former Vice President is hiring Roy Neel, a key aide on his 2000 presidential campaign and the manager of Howard Dean's 2004 run, to coordinate a new push on his main cause, global warming.

Gore's new movie and book are raising his profile as the nation's leading voice of warning about a coming climate crisis, but Feldman told The Daily Politics Neel's role is not connected to the book or film, but to a broader agenda.

"Roy is going to be coordinating a bunch of the former Vice President's activities focused specifically on an increasingly high-profile role he's going to be taking on issue of climate change," he said.

Gore has said he's not thinking about 2008 at the moment, but putting a political staff back together inches him that much closer toward being able to run for President. (Also reported today, his campaign committee has also written a check to a pollster, though they say it's a debt from 2000.)

If he keeps sounding like he has in his recent firey speeches, go get 'em Al.