On what planet was this Al Gore you describe ? I remember Senator Al Gore in 1988 as he was (unfortunately) my junior Senator. He was an across-the-board left-winger with a near-perfect left-wing record. He liked to misrepresent himself to us Tennessean rubes as a “moderate Conservative”, but his votes betrayed him for the Socialist nut that he was.
Al Gore wrote to a pro-life group that abortion is “undeniably the taking of a human life”. Maybe it was prior to 1988, but Gore and Bill Clinton were known as “pro-life” on abortion before they aspired to higher office. Like Jesse Jackson. He used to call abortion “black genocide” in the 70’s and early 80’s. They decided they wouldn’t get anywhere in the democratic party unless they “got their minds right”.