Well, they could say it about Bachman, who worked for CARTER.
And recall, it was Gore vs. Dukkakis in that day, so Gore was, by far, better than Dukkkis.
Bachmann was 20 years old in 1976. Carter also hoodwinked a lot of people into believing he was a good, upright Christian and Conservative Wallace Democrat. Contrast that with a nearly 40-year old Perry in 1988 when Gore’s record was just as left-wing as Dukakis (despite the revisionist history of the Perrybots). I should know, as Gore was my Senator.