I mean, have you seen Gore's progression after losing to Bush? Look, I don't judge men, but he was sane and relatively nice looking. Then he just became this bloated, angry POS. That loss had to have wrecked him.
That TV channel went toes after, what, six months? I don't even remember what it was called and don't care enough to look it up.
And the carbon-credit scam went the same way - it didn't help that a freak cold snap seemed to happen wherever he showed up to pitch his spiel...