Please don't get mad at me, but why did Gore lose Tennessee?

[Bo]

Because he flip-flopped on abortion and gay rights once he became VP. Also, his lack of charisma and Bush Jr.'s Southern heritage helped Gore lose TN as well.

[Bo]

Lol George Bush's souther heritage? REALLY, REALLY REALLY? lololololol He was born in New Haven, Conneticut, and educated in ivy leauge schools. He was nothing more than an ivy leauge northeastern elitist with a souther drawl. Southern herigate get real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He lived in Texas almost his entire life (he moved there as a kid) and he was governor there for six years. If that isn't SOuthern heritage, I don't know what is.

[Bo]

Born in conneticut to a northeastern elitist family, no sir i am sorry he was carpetbagger, he was not a southerner. I am from the south just because you get transplanted here and can talk a good game it doesnt make you a southerner.

I'm sure most Southererns did not view Bush Jr. as a carpetbagger. I mean, even Lincoln was born in Kentucky, yet Illinoisians treated and still treat him as one of their own.

[Bo]

Most educated southerners do, but Bush is good at appealing to the common man so he could play off act like a southerner.

I agree with you about the second part. Many ordinary Southerners thought Bush Jr. was one of them, despite the fact that he was rich. Do you think Obama is a carpetbagger? Because by your reasoning, he is--he was born in Hawaii, and then moved to Illinois later.

[Bo]

Most educated southerners do, but Bush is good at appealing to the common man so he could play off act like a southerner.

That ranch he used as a prop probably helped.

June 12 1999: Bush declares his candidacy
June 22 1999: Word leaks out that Bush is looking to buy a ranch
Dec. 10 2008: Bush prepares to sell ranch
Jan. 20 2009: Bush leaves office

Bush didn't even try to hide his phoniness here. The lapdog media was never going to call him out on it.

I didn't know Bush sold his ranch. I thought he would just visit it on vacations instead of living there all the time. What source did you get that info from?

[Bo]

LOL. A carpet bagger is a yankee who moved south to get rich. So no i wouldnt classify Obama as a carpet bagger.

That's the traditional definition. The more modern definition is someone who moves from any one state to another (typically to further one's career or political ambitions). For isntance, many people called Hillary Clinton a carpetbagger when she moved from the South up north to New York in order to get elected to the Senate.