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

Question

"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."

Do you agree? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html

Answer 1

Corporate Profit and Loss Statement:

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Answer 2

Yes. This is what Paul Krugman said a few days ago.
I think down deep, these Republicans know they stole the 2000 election. They are trying to avoid acknowledging the wrong person for this nation is in the WH today. From the party of Lincoln to the part of Willie Horton, they are a shameful bunch. If these Republicans had their way, we would still have slavery. They have no honor and going into the 4th year of Bush's war to privatize Iraqi oil, how is it working for them. Gore: Academy Award winner, Nobel Prize Laureate - Bush, tens of thousands of innocents slaughtered, billions squandered, and liberties and security at home - vanishing. And yet they, ( Bush's 33%) still know they are right and this is all justified.

Answer 3

House #1
A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms heated by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a
separate guest house, all heated by gas.

In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400.
In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home.

This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.
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House #2

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university.

This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide.

The house is 4,000 square feet ( 4 bedrooms ) and is nestled on an arid, high prairie in the American southwest.

A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F. ) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer.

The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or
natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system.

Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then
irrigates the land surrounding the house.

Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

Links below back up the facts of the 2 houses.
http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/arti...

http://www.cowboysindians.com/articles/a...

An "inconvenient truth" about Al Gore, or what?

EDIT: Please note the three thumbs-down below for something that is THE TRUTH. If you guys can't deal with the truth, don't ask me why Al Gore drives me insane. The libs are so quick to call cons hypocrites. The above is the PICTURE of hypocracy.

Answer 4

Republicans hate intelligence and education. They also hate liberals and other patriots. Giving Gore a Nobel prize shoves the fact that liberals are smart and intelligent into the face of people like Rush Limbaugh and others in the Republican propaganda machine. It is kind of like the dumb kid in class getting upset when the boy that he has been bullying gets all A's. Republicans hate being proved wrong.

Not to mention the fact that Republicans have attacked the idea of Global Warming with the same venom and zeal that they attack anything that is good for the country. Giving Gore the Nobel Prize just shoves their hatred of America, education, intelligence, and liberalism back into their faces.

Answer 5

It's the inexplicable devotion by blind, seriously brain clouded individuals like yourself, to a spotlight grabbing fear monger, whose platform of global warming issues is the biggest scam since the second ice age scare of the seventies and the acid rain scare of the eighties. To your ridiculous point that the "people chose Mr. Gore", no they didn't. Elections have run the same way since their inception, and by every legitimate means, Pres. Bush fairly won the election... stop crying over this tedious delusion you share with simple minded libs. I think Bush has not only afforded himself well, but was a much better man for a job no democrat could have, or would have been able to manage, despite it's importance. If Gore is your best choice of a leader, that speaks volumes of the current mindset of Democratic sheep.

Answer 6

Well, for one thing, his continued success reminds them that the man who stole the Presidency from him is at about a 30 percent approval rating -- and that's an improvement. Also, he reminds them that he's the more honest of the two men. Also, he reminds them that the day George W. Bush wins the Nobel Peace Prize is the day the Mets win the Super Bowl.

Yes, I said "Super Bowl." It wasn't a misprint.

Answer 7

Why is that these 'scientists' have a political agenda. Have you not noticed that they nominate many people for political gain? Yassar Arafat also won a Nobel, yup no politics there.

Heck, if this guy can win a million-dollar prize for flying around in private jets, taking limousines everywhere he goes, burning mucho gallons of oil heating his oversize mansion and then tell everyone else they are screwing up the planet, why can't I get in on this deal?

Liberal or conservative leanings aside, you have to admit Gore doesn't need a 10,000-square-foot house in the Belle Mead area of Nashville, Tenn., that used 221,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kwh. Don't get me wrong. If he likes to be separated from the rest of the small family he has with that kind of space, have at it. But it's just a bit hypocritical that he then urges average Joes to conserve energy in their modest houses. Remember, Gore spent a combined $30,000 in electricity and gas bills for his mansion in 2006. And this doesn't account for the fuel for the private jets and the limousines.

Also he recently had a wedding for his daughter. Which is fine, Congratulations. HOWEVER, they served Chilean Sea Bass, an endangered species of fish.

Yet another case of "do as I say not as I do" He doesn't deserve it in my eyes.


Edited to say...of course others are making this about Bush...funny that it wasn't in the question. Who is driving whio insane?

Answer 8

Al Gore is an idiot!!!!! Most of our warming gases come from animal flatulence. And I do NOT believe Al Gore invented the computer either. He's the real bag of hot air!

Answer 9

No, it sounds like someone's been sniffing the printing ink too much. It's really simple what drives "right-wingers" (ie, conservative Americans), it's that people listen and believe this raving lier/loonatic. Al can only laugh about this, he's making tons of money and gaining "power".

Answer 10

The neo-cons can't stand the fact that they have been wrong in practically every issue and they backed that wrong horse.