Al's Dad, the segregationist democrat Senator and full-time Soviet operative, and his Mommie Dearest the communist lawyer, endowed young Al, Jr. with a set of very larcenous genes, which have little to do with ideology. After the the thievery, it was a given that the home religion was Marxism, albeit in a very lucrative form.
Senator Al Sr.'s biggest source of illicit income was a sweetheart under-the-table deal with Armand Hammer, the Soviet Union's business agent in the US. (AMTORG) Together, he and Al Sr., engineered the federally funded exportation of billions of dollars of American goods and technology to the Communists, with Al Sr. taking a very hefty cut every time on everything from pharmaceuticals to agricultural machinery. Suffice it to say that Al Sr. and Mommie Dearest left the young and even then quite idiotic Al Jr. very well fixed indeed. E.G., several thousand acres of prime Tennessee agricultural territory for starters. Al Jr. made millions from just tobacco alone!
Segregationist Senator Al Sr. was also famous for his "Cattle Auctions" scam, among many other fund-raising coups. Those wishing to bribe him were invited to yearly "auctions" of bovine breeding stock which went for absurdly high prices. After the "winning bid," the livestock in question never left the Gore premises. You see, right after one pretended to buy them, one forked over another few hundred thousand for Al Sr.'s "company" to manage the breeding programs for a year. Renewable forever, of course.
Thanks to the Soviet Union, Al Gore, Jr. began life as a multi-millionaire heir to a criminal empire. Daddy and Mommie Dearest would have been proud of the al-Jazeera deal!
I thought Gore senior made his money in Tobacco.