Gored: Confessions of a Former Gore Voter
I am ashamed to admit it now, but I voted for Al Gore once. Back in 1988. He was running for president. I was working for a newspaper in Lubbock, Texas. He was a former journalist, and a Tennessean, though I'd learn later his credentials in both categories were rather suspect as he was raised in a posh DC hotel and spent only a short time as a reporter.

He was also a hawk among doves during the 1988 primaries, and a much better pick than that liberal weenie Dukakis, so after he addressed a rather large crowd at Texas Tech University a few weeks before Super Tuesday, I decided to vote for him in the Democrat primary that year. Besides, George Herbert Walker Bush had Texas sewn up. So I voted for Al Gore.

I have long wished I could take it back, but never more so than this week after Gore's embarrassingly awful speech Monday to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. A speech full of lies and deception, full of Al Gore exposing his total lack of core beliefs and his total willingness to fabricate, dissemble and shift positions solely for the purpose of making himself look good. Of making himself president. You can scroll down for all the details. You can check other blogs for more coverage. I recommend InstaPundit.com as a good place to start - especially this item.

The only good thing about that speech is that it may well have Gorpedoed the Democrats' chances of taking the House and keeping the Senate. Al took rhetorical aim at his chief foe - President George Bush - but may well have blown himself and his party up instead. Call it the first collateral damage of the Iraq phase of the war on terrorism.

Still, I wouldn't vote for Al Gore for dog catcher now. Chief dog poop remover, perhaps. Someone's gotta clean up behind him.

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