[hellbender]

It's time to bury forever this crap about Al Gore being some kind of "Southern conservative Democrat" when Rick Perry enthusiastically supported him. Al Gore's voting record is easily accessible on the American Conservative Union website. His ACU rating was 9%. That's more liberal than numerous leftist northern Demonrats, like Patrick Leahy of VT. Al Gore registered pro-abortion votes during the '80s.

Yet Rick Perry thought Al Gore, punk son of a rich elitist Demonrat, who frittered away his time at Harvard smoking dope, then flunked out of divinity and law school, was a better Presidential choice than Reagan's choice for VP, George H.W. Bush, WW 2 hero and former CIA Chief.

[ansel12]

As someone who went back into military service because of Reagan, I shudder to think how our Cold War efforts and momentum might have been derailed by President Al Gore in 1988, what violence and chaos and perhaps even recovery may have come from his being at the helm during what became the closing years of the USSR and the collapsing of the Empire.

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It's time to bury forever this crap about Al Gore being some kind of "Southern conservative Democrat" when Rick Perry enthusiastically supported him.

It's more the perception than anything else.

In 1992, Clinton and Gore were able to carry 4 Southern states and all the old "Border states." By 2000 Gore had lost all of them.

While he wasn't a conservative Southern Democrat of the old school, he also wasn't quite what he became in later years.

Al Gore registered pro-abortion votes during the '80s.

If so, it was after he caught the presidential bug. Gore's record up to 1984 was more pro-life than pro-abortion.

I don't disagree with you guys. I just don't like how quickly everything degenerates into abuse. Can we disagree with someone like Perry and still recognize his positive qualities and achievements?