Gore Derangement Syndrome: What is it about Al Gore that drives right-wingers insane?

Question

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?ei=5087&em=&en=da7b1a47329aacb0&ex=1192593600&pagewanted=print

Partly it’s a reaction to what happened in 2000, when the American people chose Mr. Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the White House. Both the personality cult the right tried to build around President Bush and the often hysterical denigration of Mr. Gore were, I believe, largely motivated by the desire to expunge the stain of illegitimacy from the Bush administration.

And now that Mr. Bush has proved himself utterly the wrong man for the job — to be, in fact, the best president Al Qaeda’s recruiters could have hoped for — the symptoms of Gore derangement syndrome have grown even more extreme.

The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right. In 1992, George H. W. Bush mocked him as the “ozone man,” but three years later the scientists who discovered the threat to the ozone layer won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2002 he warned that if we invaded Iraq, “the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger to the United States than we presently face from Saddam.” And so it has proved.

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Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible, than ever. And it drives them crazy.

Answer 1

I think it is hysterical! Bush can't do half what Gore has done, & I think we would be in a MUCH better place if we had Gore for 8 years. Our kids wouldn't be dying across the sea, & we would have a much better economy, I can almost gurantee it, he wouldn't have big oil in his left pockets, & the uber rich in the other. I really wish that world was ours now!

Answer 2

For "nothingness"? LOL albeit showing yellow envy,
contains a spark of truth after all: as a European he
would NOT have won the prize. Working out BASIC
knowledge? Not considered too sensational here.
(Club of Rome, ever heard of? Was in the 60s.)

But a prominent American finally accepting facts
and triggering debates in USA was reason enough.

Answer 3

Gore is honest, intelligent, sincere and he has the audacity to disagree with right wingers. Naturally, they froth at the mouth whenever they see or him hear him. IF only he had been selected president by those elitist electors instead of that incompetent moron, W. Bush! The people voted for Gore, the electors voted for Bush; down with the electoral college, and up with Democracy.

Answer 4

Its strange, in 2000 most people on both sides were not too satisfied with their candidates, they both thought they were just pretty rich daddys boy moderate politicians who wouldn't really change much either way. Liberals weren't too big on Gore, which is why so many went to Nader, which may have thrown the election to Bush, but following the controversial 2000 election Gore became something of a martyr to liberals as they thought he was screwed out of the election, just as Bush would have been to conservatives if it went the other way, so both of them became polarizing in that way.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fSX8P0cNL2w

Answer 5

Punctured Bush's ego. Gore has earned one of the most prestigious awards in the world at the same time that historians are reaching a very negative consensus on Bush.

Answer 6

They have the same animosity for Hillary, Obama, and pretty much every other democratic candidate. I think its more of a sympton of political polarization than it is of Gore-o-phobia (haha).

The sad thing is that things he stands up for which are truly everyones issues (the environment) are being written off as partisan issues, to the extreme detriment of our world.

Answer 7

Krugman's column was pretty much on target.

Answer 8

his success of course.

so they spew their envy gutters 24/7 instead
of being patriotic when an american is honoured.

Answer 9

I think you have done a very commendable job answering your own question. Kudos to you! I guess they tear him down because to admit he might be right about everything galls them.

Answer 10

It's hilarious watching all the cons have apoplexy over his winnng the award -- and sharing it with thousands of scientists no less. Cons are flipping out and beating themselves senseless with their bibles over this!