Great minds thinking
Seems I'm not the only person to have the same thoughts about the Republicans not being able to get over Al Gore, as I wrote about in a post last Friday. The NYT's Paul Krugman, it seems, wrote about the very same thing in his Monday column, and comes up with a very good name for it: The Gore Derangement Syndrome. Here's an excerpt.
What is it about Mr. Gore that drives right-wingers insane?Partly it’s a reaction to what happened in 2000, when the American people chose Mr. Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the White House. Both the personality cult the right tried to build around President Bush and the often hysterical denigration of Mr. Gore were, I believe, largely motivated by the desire to expunge the stain of illegitimacy from the Bush administration.
Incidentally, I expanded my Friday, Oct. 12 post into a column that is now posted on Pajamas Media. I'm sure there will be lots of Gore-haters commenting there, still not able to get over it.
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