BS ... if Gore had won, at least we'd all be able to protest the invoking of a police state, our war-mongering in Afghanistan (for starters ...), recess appointments, the funding of human embryonic stem cell research, yada yada yada.
As it is, the GOP is now boxed into shutting up and waving a flag lest they want Mrs. Cheney to decide you're not "patriotic enough".
Suckers.
You can argue that we could have voted for a real conservative but in the real world, that would have only succeeded in electing gwhore.