What's Eating Al Gore?

John Hinderaker briefly reviews Al Gore's treasonous behavior in the Middle East last week and recalls similar remarks made earlier on the domestic front:

For what it's worth, I was doing an internet search and ran across this post that we did about a Gore speech to a MoveOn group in May 2004. The post's title was "Gore Gone Crazy." While perhaps not quite as crazed as his Saudi speech, and, importantly, not delivered on foreign soil, Gore's 2004 performance was of a piece with his recent outrage. So whatever is eating Al Gore, it's been there for a while.

Oh, come on, John, surely you know. Like a lot of top Democrats, Gore is a spoiled rich kid, son of an elitist former Senator from Tennessee, (and oil executive afterwards, believe it or not), who went to special schools all his life, was treated specially all his life, was pampered and flattered all his life, and grew up with a sense of fiscal and political entitlement all his life.

Lest we forget, Gore had run in the primaries for the presidency before. His Senate seat was merely the stepping stone in his logical and intended—and in his opinion, pre-ordained—rise to the highest office in the land. He was entitled to it. And now he was convinced that those knuckle-dragging Republicans and their moron of a nominee had stolen it from him (in spite of massive thefts in his direction in Philadelphia, Oregon, and Wisconsin) and even caught his boys colluding with the Florida Supreme Court trying to steal it back by recounting votes until they turned out the other way, an old Democratic specialty perfected by Mayor Dailey in 1960 on behalf of JFK.

Late in the evening of election day, 2000, or perhaps in the early morning—we no longer quite remember but the precise time is beside the point—Gore, probably at the behest of rabid advisors and the usual party hacks—decided not to concede the election after he conceded it (sort of like Kerry voting for legislation before voting against it), and told a clearly irritated Bush on the telephone, "You don't have to get snippy about it."

Snippy. Now when was the last time you heard that word? From a guy? This is the language of the upper crust, of elitists, of those who feel entitled to anything they want. To find a precedent for Gore's outrage, you'd probably have to go back to when the oligarchs lost the White House to that original American yahoo, Andy Jackson. Or when the Brahmins lost it again to that hick railsplitter from Illinois, upon whom they heaped epithets surprisingly similar to the ones they're tarring Bush with.

Gore has been in a protracted snit, a repressed outrage at the Fates which occasionally he can't repress in public. He is the original Bush-hater and his simmering and occasionally boiling rage sells well on the hustings and delights our enemies in the Middle East who paid him to vent last week.

The one thing one always has to remember about elitists is that their whole "progressive" act is a sham. They don't care about you. Or the country. Or the world. They care only about themselves and increasing their already considerable wealth, a wealth they frequently have not earned. They have perfected the arts of selfishness and self-absorption. For gods such as these, a cold dose of reality is a brutal, traumatizing shock. Gore has reacted by effectively declaring a jihad on George W. Bush for the rest of his natural life. Which will never include the Presidency to which he is entitled. Because now the republic knows.