Mentions (8)
"Al Gore losing in 2000 caused the timeline to fuck up. Imagine if 9/11 never happened, and Afghanistan and especially Iraq didn't happen either. Iraq also caused the Arab spring and ISIS to be a thing which resulted in a massive refugee crisis in Europe and subsequently Brexit."
"He was very much of the lineage of Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, and Mondale: a bland, sexless functionary whose campaign strategy is premised on the rest of the Democratic field being just as charmless as he is. A sexless scold connotes a schoolmarm, which is effeminate (see Buttigieg, Gore, Dukakis, Carte"
"Continuing my streak of hot Al takes. 70%+ chance he wins DNC"
"Now obviously if Gore had won that changes everything, no way Obama or Trump happens."
"Every presidential nominee is a drug. And the drug that matters most in the cultural psyche is the one that wins. George W. Bush vs Al Gore => Cocaine vs Green Tea Extract"
"2000 - Rigged by Republicans (Courts stole it from Gore)"
"Bush v Gore - gore too camp. Bush has fantastic voice."
"Bill Clinton had successfully rebranded the party under the 'Third Way' label that Dems at any level could embrace and benefit from, and he had a clear successor in Al Gore. But Gore loses narrowly in 2000, and the problems for the Dems' brand begin."