Al Gore's carefully nurtured image is of a gentlemanly former Senator risen to Vice President, an image he has managed to maintain because his divisive and hate-filled rhetoric is rarely reported by the media. According to "gentleman" Gore, republicans are ideological extremists ("...the right hand doesn't know what the far right hand is doing." "...the extra chromosome right wing"). Republicans who oppose the Clinton/Gore ideas for socialized medicine would be happy to see even people suffering heart attacks denied medical care, because "...for republicans, the absence of a heart may not seem like an emergency." Conservatives in general are idiots "...who call C-Span at 3 in the morning, not knowing it's a taped replay." Those who insist that the government follow the Constitution in the next census, rather than use Clinton's illegal proposal to simply guess at population numbers, are really just racists who "...know that theirs is the wrong agenda for African Americans. They don't even want to count you in the census!" Those who disagree with his apocalyptic environmental visions are like the appeasers of Adolph Hitler in 1939 (talking about global warming: "As clouds of war gathered over Europe, many refused to recognize what was about to happen"). 

Gore is also an amazing hypocrite. In a recent fundraising letter, he used hate to demand contributions to lift politics out of the gutter of hate (into which the present administration, of which he is an integral part, has brought this nation). Gore is asking supporters to help him move politics "upward" and away from personal attacks, and warns against letting the nation "succumb to the forces of divisiveness, extremism and personal destruction." Using personal attacks to decry personal attacks, personal vilification to oppose personal vilification. As with his mentor Bill Clinton, Constitutional restraint on government means nothing to the democrat heir-apparent. Gore is currently proposing an agenda to combat "urban sprawl", federal programs which will give the bureaucrats in Washington more power to shape the lives of every city and suburban dweller in the country, at a price tag to taxpayers of "only" $700 million (not including all of the unforeseen extras which inevitably crop up in any government program). They call it "smart growth." Smart, as in only federal land use planners are smart enough to determine local land use; and conversely any local officials who presume to do so are, by Gore's definition, idiots. 

In foreign policy, Gore is the ultimate globalist, even more extreme than Bill Clinton in his willingness to sacrifice American sovereignty. When 15 American servicemen were killed over Iraq, Gore expressed sympathy for the families of those who died "in service to the United Nations". In spite of Gore's claimed belief that Saddam Hussein is "a ruthless dictator ruling unjustly", Gore has said that he would look favorably on the French plan to lift the oil embargo on Iraq, with the revenues to be spent on humanitarian purposes only, of course. Which shows that not only is Gore following in Clinton's footsteps of softness on international thugs who rule countries, his naive faith in the United Nations, in this case its ability to monitor Iraqi oil sales and ensure that revenues are not used for new military equipment, remains unbounded. And Gore has always been a reliable booster of the various United Nations conferences aimed at overriding American laws, traditions, and sovereignty, such as the U.N. conferences on the environment, land use restrictions, wealth redistribution, population control, interference with the family, and gun control. More power to unaccountable global bureaucrats is the preferred goal. 

What is Gore's opinion about the obligation of the President to obey the law and the Constitutional limitations on his office? At the party celebrating Bill Clinton's impeachment, Al Gore was laudatory: "It does a great disservice to a man I believe will be regarded in the history books as one of our greatest presidents." And if Gore is elected president, wouldn't it be natural, indeed expected, for him to try to emulate a predecessor who he considers to be "one of our greatest presidents", and try to be just like him?

Despite the democrats' obsession with Clinton sexual peccadillos, the reason most conservatives have always been leery of Bill Clinton has nothing to do with sex. Most conservatives have opposed Clinton because of his blatant and wide-ranging disregard for the Constitution, and his persistent attempts to intrude the federal government into every aspect of private life. Conventional wisdom has it that Al Gore in the Oval Office would not turn into a sexual libertine, and that is not the expectation. The real risk is the likelihood that Gore would emulate Clinton's darker side: the expansion of big government, running roughshod over the law and the Constitution, and the use of lies, propaganda, and the politics of personal destruction to demonize his opponents and impose his extremist ideology. And this danger would only be enhanced by Gore's fanaticism in pursuit of his agenda.

A recent poll, taken in left-leaning New Jersey, found that 30% of those who opposed Clinton's impeachment were opposed because they feared a "scary" President Al Gore.

Techno-wiz Gore fully on board with this administration's massive invasions of personal privacy, from the plans for a national health card with genetic markers; to a national worker registry, to a national registry of all children, allegedly to assure immunizations; to government intrusions into all your banking transactions; to a national photo ID registry linked to drivers' license renewals; to the government intrusion into your electronic communications; to roving FBI wiretaps sure to ensnare innocent phone users; all centralized on coordinated computer systems under control of federal bureaucrats. And once our entire lives are recorded on the Big Brother computer database (the White House database of Clinton enemies was laughingly called Big Brother by White House operatives), how can that data be used, and abused?