[xzins]

I know that Al Gore ran as a conservative democrat senator (a conservative dem is a moderate everywhere else) I was alive then. I was in Tennessee then.

I don’t need someone to tell me what I know.

He opposed abortion, violent/sexual hollywood entertainment, supported prayer or a moment of silence in school, and gun ownership.

This was the ONLY way to win in BIBLE BELT Tennessee.

You are so wrapped up in your dislike for Perry that you are ascribing things to him that aren’t true.

Go ahead and be against him. I don’t care. At least fix this one, though, because you’re off base in what you’re saying.

[Soul Seeker]

Yep. I remember that. The Hollywood crowd didn’t like him or Leiberman once upon a time. They still don’t like Lieberman.

I don’t know why it’s so hard to admit before Florida 2000 Gore wasn’t seen by people as a raging liberal. I wouldn’t call him a conservative ever but he was viewed with suspicion by liberals and seen as a “moderate”. Then the guy went crazy, grew a beard and became a born again moveon spokesman.

[hellbender]

The American Conservative Union documents how Al Gore voted in favor of abortion. The man was never a conservative. He was a punk from his days at Harvard, where he smoked dope, through his years flunking out of law school and divinity school. He would have been on the street except for his father's wealth, which was derived partly from the support of Stalinist fellow-traveler Armand Hammer. So forget this crap about Al Gore ever being a "Southern Democrat." He is a worthless hunk of slime. Either Perry did not know that, in which case he is a hopelessly incompetent judge of character, or else he knew it and recognized Gore as being like himself: a posing phony and shape-changing hack. You have those two alternatives about Perry. No others. Which are you going to defend?