What to expect from Gore in the home stretch
By Charles A. Morse
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posted October 30, 2000
Like
most liberals, Al Gore's entire life, every fiber in his body, every cell
in his being, is dedicated to winning. Gore's political faith commands
him, once success is achieved, to wield power over others. This political
calling contends that government exists to transform human nature by creating
literal equality, or what the left calls "social justice" by
forceful means. Gore and his dedicated cadres will stop at nothing to
achieve this end. To Gore, the Presidency is the beginning, middle, and
end. This presents an interesting contrast to George W. Bush who is less
ambitious and more in tune with American traditions of governance.
In the waning days of this campaign, Gore appears to be in trouble as the electorate perceives in him this lust for power and what that could imply in a president and administration. The closeness of the race has also forced Gore out of the political closet. The Socialist cards have been dropping on the table in terms of positions. As a result, the American people are given a rare opportunity to choose between two starkly different political ideologies and this bodes well for the future.
But a leftist like Gore, confronted with the possibility of losing, can be a dangerous creature indeed. There is nothing uglier and nastier than a leftist about to lose. Unlike most conservatives, or average people, the leftist stands to lose more than an election. His "raison-detre", his metaphysical purpose for living is at stake. Therefore, we can expect anything and everything from the Gore camp in these final days.
Already Gore is reverting to classic tactics right out of the leftist playbook on how to win. This involves sowing hatred, race and class division, fear and confusion. The Gore campaign, for example, is calling households in some of the hotly contested states with a pre-recorded message by left-wing actor Ed Asner, implying that George W. Bush, if elected, will take Social Security money away from retirees. Gore repeated this Big Lie, Goebbles style, several times during the debates and is continuing to hammer away with it on the campaign trail. Actually, truth be told, it was Vice President Gore who advocated raising the retirement age for Social Security beneficiaries.
Gore's fellow traveling NAACP is running a vicious ad using the voice of the 30-year old daughter of James Byrd Jr., the man dragged to death in the brutal racist attack in Jasper, Texas. The ad shows a chain being dragged behind a pickup truck with the daughters voiceover. The tag line is that Bush is against hate crime legislation. Of course, Bush has already answered to this issue during the debates when he stated that he stood for the only "hate crime" legislation to remedy this heinous crime, that being the death penalty. The real message, of course, is that Bush is a racist. This ugly ad may very well, in and of itself, constitute a "hate crime" as it is defined in some leftist circles. It certainly injects hate into the race.
Gore knows that he cannot win on the issues as the vast majority of Americans don't support his leftist agenda. This is why Gore has, quite typically, tried to posture himself as in favor of such things as the death penalty, the second amendment, and lowering taxes. No one is fooled by these lies, especially since Gore has expended any credibility he may have possessed with the electorate on so many other occasions.
We had better be on guard for a pretty bumpy ride these next two weeks.
Clinton may come to the rescue by bombing a drugstore somewhere in the
world or worse. Theirs no telling what the left may do when threatened
with the loss of the only thing that gives them purpose, and that is power.
What's in the best interests of the country is not even on the list of
considerations. 
Chuck Morse is the author of the new book Thunder out of Boston.
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- Gore is truly a liar by Thomas Jipping (October 23, 2000)
- Time to loosen up, Al by Nicholas Sanchez (August 21, 2000)