And never forget he was the first one to bring up Willie Horton not Bush I. Also his ads showed Horton's ugly mug (which revealed he was black!), Bush's aids just showed lines of faceless, raceless, sexless people going through a revolving door.
You are absolutely correct. Al Gore was the typical televangalist type conservative democrat. His father was a known tobacco man, and Al and tipper went even so far as to try and ban rock music (remember that?).
If you tell liberals stuff like that, they will think you are nuts.
He delivered Clinton the Evangelical / Christian vote, which is why he was put on the ticket. The Tammy Faye Baker/Jimmy Swaggart crowd loved Al Gore, wherein they weren’t too keen on Slick Willy, but he still delivered. Tipper was known as a being quite the fund-raiser in the south, and I remember once Gore was announced as part of Clintons ticket, she was able to instantly tap into that old Dixiecrat crowd and push the campaign contributions to (a then) all time high.
I also find it amusing, that when talking with libs, they associate the Tammy Faye/Swaggert crowd to Republicans. Nothing could be further from the truth in most cases. Incidentally, that group used to be called the “Dixiecrat Southern Vote” by strategists, and they have all sorts of names for different identity groups. A friend of mine, who follows such things from an amateur interest stand point, told me a few years ago, they now call that same group the “Home Shopping Network” demographic, because it was less offensive to other identity groups who were identified with Obama. (That last bit was a “Cliffy” that I found interesting).