Reply #2: writers on the left seem to deny all common sense in their adoration of Al Gore [View All]

Why not be honest and avoid these 1000 word op-eds and say "Since Gore didn't support the war, we support him. We'll ignore the inconvenient truths about him - that his negatives are about as high as Clinton's, that he was heavily involved in every policy from the Clinton administration we hate, like NAFTA and Welfare reform and Iraq sanctions - and hasn't backtracked on them. We'll pretend that he isn't hated by the media and his candidacy won't start a rehash of the Clinton years. We'll pretend that just about everything we dislike Clinton for, we should dislike Gore for. Except he didn't have a constituency to please in 2002 when he opposed the Iraq war. Even though Gore had a desire to topple Saddam himself, we'll just pretend he didn't. He didn't support the war in 2002."

There. The writer didn't have to stay up until midnight to write the long piece.