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There's good sense in this article, although nobody really knows where Gore's brains are. Probably floating around on the planet Twilo, but he IS a politician, albeit a weird one. The Dean endorsement could be just another drift in his nebulous irrelevancy, or Gore's pretending to be a player this week and this is what real players tell him he should do to position himself and thwart Billary the Bicephalic Creature.
If I were Dean, I'd rather be kissed by Rappacini's daughter. This endorsement is likely to blight his candidacy, which is already thoroughly pocked by gay unions and deep-sixed records, pro-choice and foreign policy idiocy.
Gore, of course, still craves the presidency. He despises Clinton and can't ever say so unless he matches the accomplishment first. But does he want to run in 2004? He couldn't beat Bush before, he sure couldn't now.
Most likely, if he's doing a political thing, he's looking at Dean as a loser---"but he's MY loser."

As much fun as it is to watch the Democrat party in a cannibalistic feeding frenzy, Gore's move sure is a head-scratcher. I first thought that it was a pro-Clinton ploy, so she could be drawn RELUCTANTLY into a VP slot (but maybe Dean realizes his life expectancy would then just about match that of a 2nd LT in Viet Nam). But the Clinton/McAuliffe actions against Dean seem to argue against that. Gore still peeved against Clinton, and trying to spite that camp? Or maybe being willing to take one for the team and back an expected loser against Bush to keep the field open in 2004 for H to dash onto the scene? I don't see him as that selfless.

Ya just gotta wonder . . . .

although nobody really knows where Gore's brains are.

That might be the problem...high SATs and all, maybe the part of the brain that makes good decisions is in atrophy. There's a process that's supposed to go on, through the primaries, that ensures that the candidate gains strength and campaigning skills by the time of the nomination. Going through that process probably helped GWB develop as a candidate.

AlGore had a coronation, not the process of fighting for the nomination. He just didn't have it together, and he chose a VP who'd never been part of the national scene. No process, lousy VP choice, no victory.

So, why would he want to do something that he must've hoped would make Dean a shoo-in? If the process is short-circuited like this, Dean will be a sure-fire disaster with all of his misstatements about his own positions and personal weaknesses. The Dems (and in no poll does Dean rise to majority) will be fed up...it looked like it just might have been an interesting convention with some Pres-VP coming out of it that would be a true consensus slate that the voters, not the party, chose.

Yeah, that's it, AlGore must be just plain dumb.