As far as I knew growing up I came from a Conservative family. My stepdad even voted along Republican lines. Imagine my surprise in 2000 when I found out he was voting for Al Gore. Why? He was concerned about his Social Security and disability benefits. During that whole election fiasco his response was, "Since he's complaining about it, they should just give the presidency to Al Gore and be done with it."
The problem with what you tell me about Al Gore is you must have had no sense of what he has done and how his words are just said for election purposes.
If you have any conservative leanings, you should have a curious desire to investigate and to verify what is truth.
Would it be news to you regarding Al Gore if I told you he was instrumental in passing secret rocket and missile guidance intelligence to China?
The company he let do this was charged with a crime and paid heavy fines. Being VP, he and Bill were allowed a pass on this whole issue. Before China could never reach even Alaska before with nuclear missiles, after Al Gore all of even Arizona can now be lit up with nukes thanks to Bill and Al.
Under that circumstances, you really would have trusted Al to ever do anything for real about SS?
He probably would have surrendered to Bin Laden after 9-11.
If you have followed any of his post election speeches, he sounds mentally unstable and would fit right in with Art Bell as a conspiracy guest on Coast to Coast.