Sorry, please enlighten with the what if's about Al Gore? This is such

[akbacchus_BC]

a waste of bandwith!

[cherokeeprogressive]

1. That kind of speculation always makes me laugh...

That the Democratic Candidate for President in 2000 was such a snoozer as to allow W to be close enough to steal the election says TONS, FUCKING TONS about Al Gore's candidacy.

Here's MY speculation... had Al Gore had the personality of a tree rather than that of a fucking ROCK, he'd have had the same landslide Ronald Reagan did when he won 49 out of 50 states, given that W was his opponent.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Blah

Al Gore got at least a half a million more popular votes than Dubya. As another poster said, the other side had to cheat to get their man in.

[saras]

2. You get what you ask for

"had Al Gore had the personality of a tree rather than that of a fucking ROCK"

The kind of people who vote based on criteria like these are exactly the reason there's so many teabaggers in Congress right now.

Gore was basically a policy wonk with a long, well-established record of getting things done. The right had to cheat to defeat him. Obama had the face and the glib talk, but a solid history of pro-corporate, generally rightist actions, except a few social issues, and was easily voted in.

[stuntcat]

4. ty

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[lunatica]

5. this thread is what's a waste of bandwidth

Ignorance is bliss