Reply #5: Gore did not lose to Bush. Bush stole the presidency. [View All]

[drummo]

If your car is stolen from you then obviously you are a horrible owner, right?

It wasn't even close. Tens of thousands of Gore voters didn't get a chance to vote or get their votes counted.

Bush ran a horrible campaign. That's why he lost despite having all the advantages. He was a governor, he was stupid (don't fool yourself, redneck like stupid president, think about Raygun), he had twice as much money as Gore had, he had a friendly media and he had an impeached and immoral president and a boom lasting for so long few gave credit to the government for it anymore.

The "Gore is a horrible campaigner" story is media invention. You are repeating their talking point. Someone cannot spend 24 years in elected office if he is a horrible campaigner, all right? Someone cannot win every county in his state in a year when the Rep presidential candidate wins by a landslide if he is a horrible campaigner. And quite frankly someone would not be picked by Bill Clinton, of all people, as his running mate if he is a horrible campaigner.

And you cannot come back from death (20 point behind Bush at the beginning of the campaign) as Gore did if you are a horrible campaigner.

Moreover you can't read Gore's mind or what he wants or what he will want 1-2 years from now. You can only take what he said.
And he did not say that "I will not run". The fact that he doesn't have plans says nothing. Have you heard Hillary say that she has plans to run for president? Noone could commit him or herself now, 3 years before the next election.