Gore's Brain....not so much
I dunno about this. I, too, thought that AlGore was an idiot. A marginal pol who rode his dad's coattails to power, who lost a "gimme" presidential election that frankly, was his to lose, who couldn't even carry his home state in the failed election.
Now, I'm thinking that he's a very shrewd conman, who used his failed election to build a massive sucker list .... who he then bilked out of millions of dollars. He's wound up far richer, and with a far more forgiving audience, than he'd ever have been if he was president, I think.