Ha! His is a most fascinating career arc!
Albert Gore Sr. feels he missed his chance at the White House when his fellow Tennessee Senator, Estes Kefauver, got the VP nod in the mid-1950s (he was also seeking the White House). Among the issues that brought Kefauver to prominence was corrupting influences that were leading to post-war juvenile delinquency. He held Congressional investigations into comic books that specifically held Bill Gaines’ EC Comics (Tales From The Crypt...) among their targets.
I've heard that Al Gore Junior planned to flee to Canada in the Vietnam War and that his father knew it would make things tough for him politically and also for his son. Al Gore Junior ended up as a journalist who reportedly had an escort while in Vietnam.
Gore Junior smoked the dope in college and bummed around. He wound up in the Senate taking his father's seat.
In the mid-1980s, he and his wife ran to the “right” by holding congressional hearings into the corrupting influence of evil rock and roll. John Denver pointed out that even Rocky Mountain High had been called a drug song by some but the panel said “we like YOUR music...”.
By 1988, Al Gore Junior was bringing up Willie Horton in his primary campaign against Michael Dukakis.
The man has been an opportunist scammer his whole life.