Gore didn't win. You know that, GWB.
If Gore had won, the Kennedy Education Bill and the Farm Bill proposals would have been even more bloated with pork-barrel spending, and the $400 billion (oops, sorry, $530 Billion) Medicare Drug Bill would have instead been a $1 Trillion National Health Care Communization.
But, all that being said... if Gore had won, the GOP Congress wouldn't have passed these Bills at all.
This is not to say that Gore would have been a better President than GWB. He would not have been; GWB is clearly the "better man" between the two. However, it is to say (and I think this is bloody well obvious) that if Gore were President, the President would not receive the Spending expansions he desires.
FReepers can praise GWB to the skies, but the fact remains -- Federal Spending has exploded upwards because the GOP Congress has given Bush every Spending expansion he has asked for.
One may argue, if one treats all political questions as a horse-race, that this marginally accrues to Bush's advantage. One may argue, if one treats all political questions as a horse-race, that this marginally accrues to Republican Party advantage.
However, it is impossible to argue that any of this accrues to Citizen Taxpayer advantage.
It simply does not.