Originally posted by: Craig234
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
After that... Don't know if he has enough appeal to middle america to carry it through to November. He's built up one heckuva kook lefty image over the last few years. Not sure how that would play to Jane & Joe Sixpack. The only loser in modern times to come back from defeat and win was Nixon. So it's not impossible... But I just don't see any widespread appeal with him.
Ya, *Gore* built up that - it's not the attack of the right based on lies.
The right just falls for that crap.
What was the 'widespread appeal' of GWB? Nothing but hot air marketing. A lying, manipulative, sociopathic immoral whore with a very little polish - very attractive.
But show him using a few well designed phrases like 'compassionate conservative' and talking about popular conservative themes like 'no nation building' ,and anti-tax no matter how fiscally irresponsible the debt, toss in things like the religious right pushing him, and you have enough for him to win.
Gore is a good example of the right doing character assassination - it's terrible but amusing how they painted *him* as the chronic liar of the 2000 election.
The way they turned his excellent leadership of the creation of the internet - something all the posters here should appreciate - into an attack that he lied about it is remarkable.