In my book, gore is a nutty whack job who has goofy ideas on every topic, and who is frankly, not very smart.
Nevertheless, the writer has a good point to make. gore was a Senator (from a Southern State, no less), he was VP, and I guess he now holds the record for the most votes ever received in a Presidential election by any candidate. Wouldn't you say he is about a "Mainstream Democrat" as one could get? And here is this "Mainstream Democrat" endorsing the most extremely leftist, anti-WOT candidate in a field of candidates which abounds in extremeism. The Democrat Party, as Zell Miller notes, has crossed the Great Divide forever more, and is now run not by liberals, but by the most extreme radicals on every issue from abortion, "gay rights", race relations, taxation, defense, and on and on.
My concern is this: Someday another Democrat is going to be elected President. Probably not in '04, but someday it will happen. When it does, we will come under the rulership of the radicals from the fringe left because that is all that remains of the Democrat Party.