Opinion of Gore

[dazzleman]

When Gore first ran for president in 1988 I liked him.

I even liked him early in his vice-presidency, despite the fact that I was not a supporter of his boss Clinton.  I thought he did a very good job in his 1993 debate with Ross Perot on NAFTA.

Later on, my opinion soured.  His participation in the Clinton fundraising scandals, his characterization of Clinton as the greatest president ever, and his inexorable move to the left all rubbed me the wrong way.

When his main supporters turned out to be the usual phalanx of Democratic supporters, there was no way I could be on that team.  His elitist and condescending attitude became more apparent, as well as his sense of entitlement.

So by the 2000 election, my opinion of Gore was pretty low.  But since then, the man appears to have gone insane.  I suspect he's drinking or taking some type of drugs.  In one of the speeches he made denouncing President Bush, his ranting reminded me of Adolf Hitler's Nuremberg speech.  It was actually scary to think that this man came so close to being president.  

My opinion of him has definitely gone down since the 2000 election.  At that time, I thought him a credible candidate for president, albeit not the person I would choose.  Now I consider him a nut who must be kept far away from power.

[dazzleman]

Overall opinion is about the same...he's finally speaking his mind, which is good, he was too robotic and programmed in his run for President. Although overall I liked him better then than I do now, so, it's a push.

The problem with Al Gore speaking his mind is that he appears to have lost his mind.  If that's the case, he'd be far better off shutting up.

It proves in a way how inauthentic a person he always was.  He has gone from a conservative southern Democrat to a hard-left populist.  People don't normally have such a radical change in political views sincerely at his age.