Was Gore to the right, left or center of Bush, Cheney and Lieberman on foreign policy?

[Suburbia]

Was Vice President Gore to left, center or right of Texas Gov. George W. Bush, former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Sen. Joe Lieberman on foreign policy?

I know Bush was against nation building until 9/11....

[Bootes Void]

In 2000 you could maybe( just maybe) make the case that he is more hawkish than Bush in some aspects.As for Cheney and Lieberman, the answer is obsviously no

[Progressive Pessimist]

Whatever the perceptions may have been in 2000, if he actually was Commander-in-Chief there is no way in hell that he would be to the right of Bush/Cheney.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Bush, possibly. We never know since Cheney was obviously in charge, at least in foreign policy matters.

As for Dick 'lets kill one million people 'cause I wanna invade Iraq' Cheney, the answer is no.

[Make America Grumpy Again]

One could argue that Gore ran a more hawkish as he focused on "nation building" while Bush emphasized a "kindler, gentler era", but after 2003, it was clear Bush was more hawkish. Cheney and Lieberman is a more interesting question. I think Cheney was a bigger national security hawk, but Lieberman was a larger interventionalist hawk near McCain levels.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Hawkishness is not synonymous with right-wing, dovishness is not synonymous with left-wing.

[GregTheGreat657]

In terms of the campaign or how he would have actually governed? In terms of campaigning, Gore was to the right of Bush, but to the left of Cheney and Lieberman, but in terms of governance Gore was the farthest left by a country mile, if you are working under the assumption that dovishness is left-wing and hawkishness is right-wing

[darklordoftech]

I find it interesting how for both Gore and Hillary, accusing their opponent of isolationism backfired.

[SInNYC]

Gore was to Bush's right in the campaign - recall Bush was for a "humble" foreign policy. Lieberman and Cheney were both to the right of their ticket, but I would say Cheney was the further right since Lieberman's rightwingishness concentrated mostly on the middle east. So, Bush-Gore-Lieberman-Cheney.

Governing-wise, all of them were on the right for foreign policy. Bush/Cheney of course had Iraq, but Gore was one of the biggest spenders on the military in Congress. I'm guessing he would have ramped up DOD spending after 9/11, and congress would have made him ramp it up even more after nonstop yammering claiming that 9/11 was the natural result of 10 years of military decimation by Clinton/Gore. But there would have been no Iraq war with Gore.

[Senator-elect Spark]

Gore appeared to be to the right of Bush on foreign policy during the 2000 campaign, with Bush providing a perception of "treading carefully" in foreign affairs. While Gore seemed to have supported intervention during his time in the Clinton administration as it relates to Bosnia and Somalia, among other places.