I read and heard that Al Gore was acting “insane” recently. One - “Al Gore: Former Vice President going insane right before our very eyes.” Do you think this is true? Doesn’t he have some legitimacy given he had 540,000 more votes than GWB?
gotta cite? Otherwise read forum descriptions as I don’t see a debate here
See the link below for a cite.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200405280001
These are all right-wing nutjobs who, instead of arguing the merits of what Al Gore said in his recent speech, pronounce him to be “off his meds” and clearly insane. This is the dismal level of professional discourse offered by our laughable pundit class.
id be pretty insane too if I lost an election by 2000 votes.
Im sure most of us would, however Al Gore’s moved on more then less from that particular event.
Are we judging insanity by the legal definition here or by the colourful language definition? If so, I was insane last night when my favourite sporting team lost at the death… But I wasn’t really insane, I wasnt going to any mental hospital, and I sure didnt need any medication.
thank you!
Just try finding a christian who can be objective about any Democrat!
sigh…I can’t 
Passion is scary.
LOL, oh, you just gotta love this new “he’s craaaaazy” meme the frightened Republicans trot out when they either can’t (or are too lazy to) argue facts. Dean was riled up and trying to encourage his team members? “The Doc’s an insane psychofreak.” Gore is angry and fired up about the horrific mistakes and malicious activities of this usurping administration? “Ol’ Al must’ve turned looney.”
And this from a party that has embraced frenzied outrage for years, courtesy of Delay, Lott, Gingrich, Thurmond, Helms, and Armey, not to mention hysterical pundits from Coulter to Limbaugh to Hannity to Savage to Robertson. Hypocrites all.
Gore’s speech was absolutely amazing: he was articulate, justifiably enraged, intelligent, and filled with passion. Freed of the DNC caretakers and dumbass advisers who stifled him during the 2000 elections – not to mention his own inhibitions after years of trying to appeal to various electorates – Gore has come into his own. I’d vote for him in a New York minute if he were running this year, although in a way he’s just as valuable in his current position of combination gadfly and semi-elder-statesman.
I’ve got to ask the OP: did you actually see this speech, or are you getting your impressions strictly secondhand?
If the new Gore (he of the passionate, hard-hitting speeches) is the real Gore, I wish the real Gore had campaigned in the 2000 election. He might have won decisively enough for it to stick. Gore 2000, unfortunately, was percieved by too many as being insuficiently different from Bush.
Claims like this are disturbing not only because they are a joke of political discourse, but because they are a disservice to the truly mentally ill. Obviously, it is just desperate rhetoric.
The Repubs are treading water and getting tired. Since this tactic worked once on Dean, they figure “let’s try it again”. Actually, they like to keep repeating the same tactics. For instance, terror warnings got the public on their side a couple of times, so why not try it again and again and again… :o
What? Republicans wanted Dean to win becuase they would have wiped the floor with him. I remember a few threads in which Republicans said that and Democrats said that they were just scared. It was weird how in one day it changed from Republicans being scared of Dean to them being scared of Kerry.
When he’s calm, they call him a “robot”, and when he shows some emotion, he’s “insane”.
In other words, he shows a human range of emotion. What are they going to attack him for next, inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide?
“Al Gore actually eats food and produces waste! HE’S INSANE!”
At this point, Bush couldn’t wipe the floor even if his opponent was a mop.
Yes, Bush is worried about an opponent. Any opponent. It’s looking like people would vote for a ham sandwich rather than Bush. Anyone or anything but Bush.
My point was that it wasn’t only republicans that said Dean was insane and I doubt its only republicans saying Gore sounded insane this time.
Growing that big bushy beard after the election, that was rather peculiar I thought. It was as if he was some penitent hermit in exile, staggering wild-eyed from a cave. But crazy? No. Frustrated on an epic, metaphysical, Shakespearean level? Without question.
Time is on his side; I do not believe that the history books will be kind to either the 2000 election resolution or the positively dreadful administration that followed it. Whatever his faults Gore couldn’t have screwed it up worse than what we’ve had. But he never does himself a favor when he gets in front of a camera.
Gore is just out there being the bad cop to Kerry’s good cop. Surely you know he’s not “insane”. It really doesn’t take any more sophisticated analysis than the good cop/bad cop tactic to understand what’s going on. And, btw, legitimacy and insanity aren’t mutually exclusive. 
Come now, Gore is no more insane now than he was in the last days of the Clinton administration.
Can’t believe that this dead horse is still getting beat on. If nothing else was accomplished in the election of 2000, it at least educated MOST ppl that the way our Presedential election process is decided is by electoral college (and why it was set up that way).
For those still in the dark, here’s a handy link.
http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecmenu2.htm
I think he looked good in that beard. I think more guys should grow real beards instead of the close to the face stuff that seems to be the fashion now. Of course, my opinion may have something to do with the fact that I’ve worn one for 28 years now.
But peculiar because he grew a beard? Sorry, I’m not getting it.
I didn’t see where Sallly said “Gore wuz robbed” or referred to Bush as having been appointed rather than elected. Just asked if someone who had had that many voters vote for him — more than those who voted for the Prez — doesn’t have a certain measure of political legitimacy.