Reply #16: Good points. One distinction, Al Gore was betrayed by his own party [View All]

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conversely John Kerry betrayed his party, and consequently this nation.

Al Gore had little if any support from anyone in Democratic leadership. Publicly I don't remember any leaders fighting for him. Can you imagine if that had been George Bush?

Gore tried to play by the rules and do what was right. Gore not only was ridiculed every step of the way, even more insultingly by many in our own party. It was disgraceful the way he was treated all the way around.

Joe Lieberman was AWOL from the get go. Gore fought against people like James Baker, Bush Sr. and the five of extremist judges on our Supreme court. His family was harassed and had protestors outside the VP mansion yelling at him to get out of "Dick Cheney's house" day and night. He endured unspeakable abuses and harassment and intimidation. Where was the the Democratic leadership (and most Democrats)when this happened. We let him down. We didnt have Gores back.

John Kerry, on the other hand, had an army behind him and he folded in twelve hours. He didnt have our backs.

Again, with all that you mentioned which I both understand and empathize, the comparisons between Gore and Kerry are only that they both won the election, and it ends there. Its important to make the distinctions because we need to support all of us who have tried, and we have our own accountability as well in that regard to the 2000 election.

However, we did an amazing job of unifying and rallying and organizing this time around. This one like, 2000 was ours. John Kerry walked away from it.