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>               40 Reasons To Say NO To Gore
>
>      Source: Jewish World Review
>      Published: October 12, 2000 Author: Jeff Jacoby
>
> http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- AL GORE for president? Amazingly,
> there are people who think that would be a good idea. Here are 40
> reasons why it
> wouldn't:
>
> 1. He refuses to promise that he won't pardon Bill Clinton.
>
> 2. In his first year as vice president, he cast the tie-breaking vote
> to wrap the largest tax increase in world history around the necks of
> American taxpayers.
>
> 3. But anybody who wants to cut taxes is peddling a "risky tax
> scheme."
>
> 4. Liar, liar (#1): "I found a little place in upstate New York called
> Love Canal."
>
> 5. Gore in the White House means four years of being talked down to
> like we're a class of unusually slow 5th-graders.
>
> 6. Fed up with a landlord who wouldn't fix the overflowing toilets,
> clogged drains, and moldy walls in their house, the Mayberry family
> finally gave up and moved out
> in July. The slumlord? Al Gore.
>
> 7. Listen to a liberal: "A president can lead only if other
> politicians believe that he keeps his word.... But Gore has displayed
> a Clintonesque tendency to say or do
> whatever is expedient" -- David Broder in The Washington Post, Sept.
> 27, 2000.
>
> 8. He reacted to Clinton's impeachment by cheering the man who had
> sullied the Oval Office, betrayed his wife, lied under oath, and
> obstructed justice: Clinton,
> Gore said, "will be regarded in the history books as one of our
> greatest presidents."
>
> 9. Liar, liar (#2): "I ... walked through the elephant grass, and I
> was fired upon" in Vietnam.
>
> 10.Gore claims his favorite book is The Red and the Black, a novel
> written in 1830 by the French author Stendhal. Puh-leez.
>
> 11. Private schooling for the Gores, but not a penny for vouchers that
> might rescue poor kids from crummy public schools.
>
> 12. Asked whether his opinion of Bill Clinton changed when Juanita
> Broaddrick charged that Clinton had raped her in 1978, Gore replied:
> "Whatever mistakes he
> made in his personal life are in the minds of most Americans balanced
> against what he has done ... as president."
>
> 13. He wants gasoline to cost even more. ("Higher taxes on fossil
> fuels ... is one of the logical first steps in ... a more responsible
> approach to the environment" -- Al
> Gore, Earth In The Balance, p. 173).
>
> 14. Liar, liar (#3): He told seniors in Florida that his mother-in-law
> pays $108 a month for the same arthritis medicine he gets for his dog
> for $37.80.
>
> 15. Listen to a liberal: "He waged a relentlessly negative campaign,
> engaging in distortions and misrepresentations" -- Al Hunt in The Wall
> Street Journal, Feb. 3,
> 2000.
>
> 16. For his first campaign chairman, he chose Tony Coelho, a political
> shakedown artist and influence-peddler who left Congress under an
> ethical cloud.
>
> 17. And for a campaign manager, he chose Donna Brazile, who in 1988
> was fired from the Dukakis campaign for spreading filthy rumors about
> George Bush's
> private life.
>
> 18. On an adjusted gross income of $197,729 in 1997, Gore donated $353
> to charity. Stung by bad publicity, he upped his donations the
> following year -- and
> issued a press release trumpeting his generosity.
>
> 19. He boasts that he was a co-sponsor of the McCain-Feingold campaign
> finance bill, a scandalous proposal to silence grassroots activists
> and prevent challengers
> from raising the money they need to compete against incumbents.
>
> 20. Liar, liar (#4): "Co-sponsor"? Gore left the Senate before
> McCain-Feingold was ever introduced.
>
> 21. He cozied up to loathsome race-baiter Al Sharpton in a private
> meeting in his daughter's Manhattan apartment -- then had his aides
> deny that any such meeting
> was taking place.
>
> 22. Listen to a liberal: "Why should we believe that you will tell the
> truth as president if you don't tell the truth as a candidate?" --
> Bill Bradley, Jan. 26, 2000.
>
> 23. He wouldn't french-kiss Tipper in front of guests at his dining
> room table. But he was gauche enough to do it at the Democratic
> convention in front of 4,400
> delegates, 12,000 members of the press, and a nationwide TV audience.
>
> 24. "I was raised a good part of my life on a farm. I've cleaned out
> hog lots. I've planted. I've harvested. I've taken up hay all day in
> the sun, and then ... helped
> neighbors take it up by moonlight before the rain came." Puh-leez.
>
> 25. Liar, liar (#5): "I accompanied James Lee Witt down to Texas when
> those fires broke out."
>
> 26. He chose a running mate independent-minded enough to oppose
> affirmative action, favor school vouchers, and back partial
> privatization of Social Security --
> then forced him to recant on all three.
>
> 27. He is so unhinged on the subject of global warming that he
> compares it to the Holocaust.
>
> 28. Listen to a liberal: "Gore is manifestly willing to lie for
> political convenience" -- James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly, July
> 2000.
>
> 29. He slams George W. Bush for admiring Supreme Court Justice Antonin
> Scalia -- without mentioning that he voted to confirm Scalia in 1986.
>
> 30. He says support for gays in the military will be a litmus test for
> anyone he names to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
>
> 31. Say good-bye to your car: Gore has proclaimed "the strategic goal
> of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine."
>
> 32. Liar, liar (#6): "The size of the federal government will go down
> in a Gore administration."
>
> 33. Gore sold his 1991 Gulf War vote to the highest bidder. According
> to former Senator Alan Simpson, Gore offered to support whichever side
> "would offer him
> the most and the best speaking time." The night before the vote, he
> barked at the GOP Senate secretary, "Dammit, Howard! If I don't get 20
> minutes tomorrow, I'm
> going to vote the other way."
>
> 34. He mocks conservative activists as "the extreme right wing, the
> extra-chromosome right wing." An extra chromosome is what causes Down
> syndrome.
>
> 35. On a tour of Monticello in 1993, Gore paused before some sculpted
> busts to ask, "Who are these people?" The unfamiliar faces: George
> Washington and
> Benjamin Franklin.
>
> 36. He may just be the nastiest campaigner in national politics.
>
> 37. His explanation for not realizing that his fund-raising calls from
> the White House were soliciting hard-money contributions was that "he
> drank a lot of iced tea
> during meetings, which could have necessitated a restroom break."
> Puh-leez.
>
> 38. Oh, yes, there was controlling legal authority. It has been
> illegal since 1883 to solicit campaign contributions in government
> buildings.
>
> 39. He'll exploit anything for political advantage: In his convention
> video, he made a point of showing off a nude drawing of his wife.
>
> 40. Liar, liar (#7): "There has never been a time in this campaign
> when I have said something that I know to be untrue."
>
> Forty already -- and I didn't even mention his tobacco hypocrisy, or
> how he created the Internet, or the fundraising felonies at the
> Buddhist temple. But how many
> reasons do you need? If 40 won't convince you, nothing will.
>
> Jeff Jacoby is a JewishWorldReview.com contributor.

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40 Reasons To Say NO To Gore</font></font></b>
<p><font color="#000066">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Source: Jewish World
Review</font>
<br><font color="#000066">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Published: October 12,
2000 Author: Jeff Jacoby</font>
<p><font color="#000066"><a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com">http://www.jewishworldreview.com</a>
-- AL GORE for president? Amazingly, there are people who think that would
be a good idea. Here are 40 reasons why it</font>
<br><font color="#000066">wouldn't:</font>
<p><b><font color="#000066">1. He refuses to promise that he won't pardon
Bill Clinton.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">2. In his first year as vice president, he
cast the tie-breaking vote to wrap the largest tax increase in world history
around the necks of American taxpayers.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">3. But anybody who wants to cut taxes is peddling
a "risky tax scheme."</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">4. Liar, liar (#1): "I found a little place
in upstate New York called Love Canal."</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">5. Gore in the White House means four years
of being talked down to like we're a class of unusually slow 5th-graders.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">6. Fed up with a landlord who wouldn't fix
the overflowing toilets, clogged drains, and moldy walls in their house,
the Mayberry family finally gave up and moved out</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">in July. The slumlord? Al Gore.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">7. Listen to a liberal: "A president can lead
only if other politicians believe that he keeps his word.... But Gore has
displayed a Clintonesque tendency to say or do</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">whatever is expedient" -- David Broder in
The Washington Post, Sept. 27, 2000.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">8. He reacted to Clinton's impeachment by cheering
the man who had sullied the Oval Office, betrayed his wife, lied under
oath, and obstructed justice: Clinton,</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">Gore said, "will be regarded in the history
books as one of our greatest presidents."</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">9. Liar, liar (#2): "I ... walked through the
elephant grass, and I was fired upon" in Vietnam.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">10.Gore claims his favorite book is The Red
and the Black, a novel written in 1830 by the French author Stendhal. Puh-leez.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">11. Private schooling for the Gores, but not
a penny for vouchers that might rescue poor kids from crummy public schools.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">12. Asked whether his opinion of Bill Clinton
changed when Juanita Broaddrick charged that Clinton had raped her in 1978,
Gore replied: "Whatever mistakes he</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">made in his personal life are in the minds
of most Americans balanced against what he has done ... as president."</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">13. He wants gasoline to cost even more. ("Higher
taxes on fossil fuels ... is one of the logical first steps in ... a more
responsible approach to the environment" -- Al</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">Gore, Earth In The Balance, p. 173).</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">14. Liar, liar (#3): He told seniors in Florida
that his mother-in-law pays $108 a month for the same arthritis medicine
he gets for his dog for $37.80.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">15. Listen to a liberal: "He waged a relentlessly
negative campaign, engaging in distortions and misrepresentations" -- Al
Hunt in The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 3,</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">2000.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">16. For his first campaign chairman, he chose
Tony Coelho, a political shakedown artist and influence-peddler who left
Congress under an ethical cloud.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">17. And for a campaign manager, he chose Donna
Brazile, who in 1988 was fired from the Dukakis campaign for spreading
filthy rumors about George Bush's</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">private life.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">18. On an adjusted gross income of $197,729
in 1997, Gore donated $353 to charity. Stung by bad publicity, he upped
his donations the following year -- and</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">issued a press release trumpeting his generosity.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">19. He boasts that he was a co-sponsor of the
McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill, a scandalous proposal to silence
grassroots activists and prevent challengers</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">from raising the money they need to compete
against incumbents.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">20. Liar, liar (#4): "Co-sponsor"? Gore left
the Senate before McCain-Feingold was ever introduced.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">21. He cozied up to loathsome race-baiter Al
Sharpton in a private meeting in his daughter's Manhattan apartment --
then had his aides deny that any such meeting</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">was taking place.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">22. Listen to a liberal: "Why should we believe
that you will tell the truth as president if you don't tell the truth as
a candidate?" -- Bill Bradley, Jan. 26, 2000.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">23. He wouldn't french-kiss Tipper in front
of guests at his dining room table. But he was gauche enough to do it at
the Democratic convention in front of 4,400</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">delegates, 12,000 members of the press, and
a nationwide TV audience.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">24. "I was raised a good part of my life on
a farm. I've cleaned out hog lots. I've planted. I've harvested. I've taken
up hay all day in the sun, and then ... helped</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">neighbors take it up by moonlight before the
rain came." Puh-leez.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">25. Liar, liar (#5): "I accompanied James Lee
Witt down to Texas when those fires broke out."</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">26. He chose a running mate independent-minded
enough to oppose affirmative action, favor school vouchers, and back partial
privatization of Social Security --</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">then forced him to recant on all three.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">27. He is so unhinged on the subject of global
warming that he compares it to the Holocaust.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">28. Listen to a liberal: "Gore is manifestly
willing to lie for political convenience" -- James Fallows, The Atlantic
Monthly, July 2000.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">29. He slams George W. Bush for admiring Supreme
Court Justice Antonin Scalia -- without mentioning that he voted to confirm
Scalia in 1986.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">30. He says support for gays in the military
will be a litmus test for anyone he names to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">31. Say good-bye to your car: Gore has proclaimed
"the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine."</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">32. Liar, liar (#6): "The size of the federal
government will go down in a Gore administration."</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">33. Gore sold his 1991 Gulf War vote to the
highest bidder. According to former Senator Alan Simpson, Gore offered
to support whichever side "would offer him</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">the most and the best speaking time." The
night before the vote, he barked at the GOP Senate secretary, "Dammit,
Howard! If I don't get 20 minutes tomorrow, I'm</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">going to vote the other way."</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">34. He mocks conservative activists as "the
extreme right wing, the extra-chromosome right wing." An extra chromosome
is what causes Down syndrome.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">35. On a tour of Monticello in 1993, Gore paused
before some sculpted busts to ask, "Who are these people?" The unfamiliar
faces: George Washington and</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">Benjamin Franklin.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">36. He may just be the nastiest campaigner
in national politics.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">37. His explanation for not realizing that
his fund-raising calls from the White House were soliciting hard-money
contributions was that "he drank a lot of iced tea</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">during meetings, which could have necessitated
a restroom break." Puh-leez.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">38. Oh, yes, there was controlling legal authority.
It has been illegal since 1883 to solicit campaign contributions in government
buildings.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">39. He'll exploit anything for political advantage:
In his convention video, he made a point of showing off a nude drawing
of his wife.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">40. Liar, liar (#7): "There has never been
a time in this campaign when I have said something that I know to be untrue."</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">Forty already -- and I didn't even mention
his tobacco hypocrisy, or how he created the Internet, or the fundraising
felonies at the Buddhist temple. But how many</font></b>
<br><b><font color="#000066">reasons do you need? If 40 won't convince
you, nothing will.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#000066">Jeff Jacoby is a JewishWorldReview.com contributor.</font></b></blockquote>
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