Gore Derangement Syndrome....(I didn't see this posted before so)

[Didereaux]

An excellent description of why Al Gore is so hated by todays Republicans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?em&ex=1192680000&en=bec1610449387747&ei=5087%0A

What is it about Mr. Gore that drives right-wingers insane?

Partly it’s a reaction to what happened in 2000, when the American people chose Mr. Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the White House. Both the personality cult the right tried to build around President Bush and the often hysterical denigration of Mr. Gore were, I believe, largely motivated by the desire to expunge the stain of illegitimacy from the Bush administration.

And now that Mr. Bush has proved himself utterly the wrong man for the job — to be, in fact, the best president Al Qaeda’s recruiters could have hoped for — the symptoms of Gore derangement syndrome have grown even more extreme.
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Everything I’ve just said should be uncontroversial — but imagine the reception a Republican candidate for president would receive if he acknowledged these truths at the next debate. Today, being a good Republican means believing that taxes should always be cut, never raised. It also means believing that we should bomb and bully foreigners, not negotiate with them.

So if science says that we have a big problem that can’t be solved with tax cuts or bombs — well, the science must be rejected, and the scientists must be slimed. For example, Investor’s Business Daily recently declared that the prominence of James Hansen, the NASA researcher who first made climate change a national issue two decades ago, is actually due to the nefarious schemes of — who else? — George Soros.

Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible, than ever. And it drives them crazy.
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........and their worst fear is that if by some off chance no Democrat candidate has sufficient votes at the Convention to win the first round, Al Gore is a shoe-in to be drafted!!!!!!!

[otohara]

1. The Denver Post, Cut This Down to 3 Paragraphs

today in a count/counterpoint mini discussion. Sheesh!

[Glorfindel]

2. "Democrat" candidate? What are we, Newt Gingrich's echoes here?

But that's a nice piece about Mr. Gore, and very true. :D