[RockyTop4GOP]

OTOH I'm mindful this state did send Al Gore to the Senate and also Lamar Alexander, not exactly the stoutest conservatives you can find.

You forget that since we elected Al Gore, the parties have pretty much changed. Despite being conservative, the entire state of Tennessee didn't go for the GOP until 2000.

As for Alexander, he's another entrenched Tennessean that can do no wrong. Doesn't his family own much of the Knoxville area? He's served in almost every position of leadership in TN including president of UT. There was no way the man wasn't going to be elected despite his views. Sadly, the older generations are the ones who vote, and everyone remembered his plaid shirt campaign and loved him.

[don-o]

Junior Gore ran on Daddy's coat tails, including Senior's opposition the the Civil Rights Act of 1964, iirc

[whatisthetruth]

Sadly, the older generations are the ones who vote, and everyone remembered his plaid shirt campaign and loved him.

ROFL! Aaah yes, the plaid shirt indeed. Thanks I needed that one.

[Richard Kimball]

IIRC, didn't Gore, when he was a Tennessee senator, run as a conservative Dem? I was thinking he was pro-life until he got national ambitions, and, didn't go off the deep end until after his loss in 2000.