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

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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

How wrong can you be... Gore doesn't drive me crazy, he lost the election and that is that, US Supreme Court has ruled and he has not spent a day in the Presidential Oval Office so why would conservatives be bitter, WE WON! As far as his Nobel Prize, good for him, an American won it, better than say a Syrian, Turk, or Frenchmen. I just would like to know what Global Warming has to do with World Peace, but hey, it really doesn't matter to me, anyway, he is not going to share the money with me or you for that matter.

Answer 2

Really? Cause' he lost the eletion, has a few trophies from the fluff world of hollywood and a Nobel Peace Prize which seems to have a diminished meaning now. He's more like a wart, to hard to get rid of, obvious, but relatively minor in the great scheme of things. Twenty years from now when school children are reading about the ridiculous people in 07' who thought global warming was killing us, Al Gore will be no more than a foot note. But hey, if you want to worship him, by all means...

Answer 3

Wow. I hope you don't have to go for any random drug testing in the near future!
Look... you're wrong.
Not only are you wrong, you're SO wrong it's painful to even read the words of someone so totally duped by the pseudo-science and hypocrisy that is the Al Gore phenomenon.

As another reply said... you substitute opinion for fact.
Let me reply with FACTS:

Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote. It has happened in the past as well. Were you ASLEEP during school when they were teaching American History? Gore lost. Period. He demanded recount after recount. He lost.
GET OVER IT!
Had he BEEN elected, he'd have failed miserably handling 9/11 from a leadership standpoint. He has the emotional expression of a cardboard box, except when he's ranting like a raving lunatic because his cash cow 'Global Warming' is being debunked.
Al Qaeda actually would prefer Al Gore (wow, they even sound alike) because he's a pacifist and won't hit them back when they knock down our buildings, crash our planes and murder our citizens. He's another cut-and-run Liberal like his old compadre Bill Clinton. The Democrats actually got some letters of congratulations from known terrorists when they took the Congress in 2003. What does THAT tell you?

Al Gore is a lying hypocrite and a snake oil salesman of massive proportions. If he REALLY believed CO2 were doing what he says... would he fly around in his Private Jet?
His science fiction movie did not and never will merit any award not given with bias. His pseudo-scientific religion called Man Made Global Warming is being dismantled by scientists more and more as they gain the confidence not to be intimidated by political tactics. ANYONE who puts someone like him ahead of a woman who saved 2500 kids from concentration camps in WWII for the Nobel Peace Prize... is the same kind of moron who would give it to Arafat or nominate Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini for it (ALL true... how's THAT for company? Arafat, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Al Gore)

In twenty years, when history has time to grant the wisdom of hindsight, we'll see who is looked back upon as greatness or vision and who is looked back upon as a liar.
Don't hold your breath. Gore won't fare well.

BTW- Andrew M...
Al Gore was SUCH a visionary and ahead of his time that he once questioned Oliver North before Congress. He asked him why he had purchased a 60,000.00 home security system.
Ollie told him he had been threatened by a very dangerous man.
Al Gore asked who that was... and Ollie told him:
"Osama bin Laden"
Gore proceeded to mispronounce the name, ridicule North for being 'paranoid' (precendence for Libs attacking war heroes) and shrugged bin Laden off as nothing special.
Oh, yeah... he was right!
Guess if he'd used the INTERNET he created, he could have avoided that embarrassment.

Answer 4

We all know that conservatives are, largely, ignorant.

If you look at what Gore had to say about the pressing issues of the day, long BEFORE the rest of society woke up to it, you see someone who is always ridiculed by the Right as someone who is a kookie wack-job, but winds up being spot-on correct.

Tax cuts will explode the deficit, invading Iraq is illegal and will lead to quagmire, the government is breaking laws protecting the citizens' rights, global warming... he was preaching about this stuff long before the evidence became so overwhelming that it was impossible to ignore. The conservatives love to make the excuse "Well, NOBODY REALLY knew that at the time..."

Gore puts the lie to that, and makes them look foolish for mocking his positions that proved to be completely correct. To save face, they have to try and discredit him through character assassination.

Answer 5

I agree with you for the most part. The Republicans have felt guilty ever since they stole the 2000 election. Denigrating Gore was one of their desperate attempts to make people forget this. And of course his focus on the environment made him the enemy to the "trees cause pollution" crowd. Wonder what they'll say now that all the Republican presidential candidates have gotten on the global warming bandwagon?

Answer 6

Al Gore is an alien love child. Look it up. He was "born" 9 months after the Roswell UFO incident.

Answer 7

For "nothingness"? LOL albeit exhibiting yellow envy, contains a spark of reality in spite of everything: as a ecu he does no longer have won the prize. determining common expertise? no longer considered too sensational right here. (club of Rome, ever heard of? grew to become into in the 60s.) yet a sought after American finally accepting data and triggering debates in u . s . a . grew to become into reason adequate.

Answer 8

Again, more OPINION posted as a substitute for original thought?