[plain talk]

There was a time known as “before Gore was a scumbag”?

Yep. Sort of. Tennessee is a fairly conservative state and when he represented those people he at least tried to appear reasonable or perhaps more likely he faked it. In any event he wasn't the same politician then in public as he became later when he was freed after the 2000 race to become world clown.

[Verginius Rufus]

Compared to the other Democratic candidates, Gore may have seemed like the most moderate...his opponents were Michael Dukakis, Dick Gephardt, Paul Simon, Bruce Babbitt, Jesse Jackson, and briefly Gary Hart. Gore was also the only Southerner (if Gephardt's part of Missouri doesn't count as Southern).

1988 was only 123 years after the end of the War between the States. Maybe Perry had relatives who fought or died defending Texas against Lincoln's soldiers.

I haven't decided what I think about Perry, but the fact that he was still a Democrat in 1988 does not disqualify him as far as I am concerned.

[Fledermaus]

Forget Florida, all evidence proves Bush won and more votes were disqualified illegally by the Gore lawyers, that idiot couldn’t win us here in Tennessee.

And his father was a full blown racist. His mother was one mean bitch. I had to deal with these elitist pigs working at a fancy hotel in Nashville.

Talk about entitlement. The stories...