Let’s start the rant off nice and easy. I don’t like Gore. I’ve never voted for him for any office and never will. But I did like his comments in Santa Fe yesterday:

Speaking at a Democratic Party rally at Eldorado Hotel, Gore elicited loud cheers from the faithful when he asked the rhetorical question, “Are you better off now than you were two years ago?”
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Gore criticized Attorney General John Ashcroft for his attitude toward civil liberties. He got laughs when he mocked Ashcroft for spending $8,000 on draperies to cover the bare breast of a statue called The Spirit of Justice at the Justice Department building.

“He put Lady Justice in a burqa,” Gore quipped.

Why don’t I like Gore, even when I like his words? As with his mentor, Slick Willy, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a heartfelt or personal word out of his mouth. I don’t know if he holds any personal opinions on the issues – I think his mouth, like Slick Willy’s, just spews whatever the pollsters say it should. I’m old enough to remember when his wife was fighting against rock music, I didn’t like his representation that he invented the Internet and I don’t like him borrowing lines from Reagan’s 1980 campaign now.

Despite that, the short answer to his question is no, I’m not better off (in most ways) than I was two years ago. The economy sucks. I will vote accordingly. But if he thinks that attitude will help the Democratic Party in California, he truly is an idiot.

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