Are you serious? You are assuming his faith made him a conservative? LOL! Like Pelosi and Kennedy with their faith.
“Are you serious? You are assuming his faith made him a conservative? LOL! Like Pelosi and Kennedy with their faith.”
Oh no, I agree, his faith did not make him a conservative, in any sense of the word that you or I would understand, but that was really what he was put on the ticket as.
Of course it was all BS. Gore has always been an opportunist, and so was his father. It is in his blood. The Gore’s have been snake oil salesmen since their family association with Armen Hammer and the Russians.
But, the fact still remains, that he was far to the right, when it comes to religion, or so he and his handlers claimed. That religious zeal is what kept getting him elected in the farm belt as a congress-critter. You have to remember, that at that time, the right would have been considered the Jim and Tammy Faye Baker crowd. Gore played to that crowd very well.
If you were to tell, the average lib, that Al Gore and his wife, once testified for weeks before congress to ban rock music, or that the Gore Family became very wealthy as tobacco farmers, they would not believe you.
Those of us who have been around the block a few times, can remember such things.
And your association with Pelosi and Kennedy are dead on. They are religious when it suits them, you and I understand that, but to the millions of Catholics here around Chicago, they will always vote D because the D party is the Catholic party. Issues be damned, it is more important to “most” Chicago Area Roman Catholics to just claim you are Catholic I guess.
BTW, I too was once a Chicago area democrat & a Catholic. I pulled the lever for my first R when Reagan ran, and I never went back, and since then, by proxy, I had to leave the Catholic Church here in Chicago. They do not fit in with my conservative views.
I believe I read that Obama got nearly 85% of Catholic vote here in Chicago land, and somewhere near 75% nationwide (I am sure my figures are off a few percentage points, I’m generalizing, and someone will correct me if I am wrong hopefully). That doesn’t mean Obama is conservative, any more than it means Gore was a conservative. It just means that they got that voting block. Slice it however you want.