gore! Gore! GORE!

Paul Krugman of the New York Times has written a brilliant article about Al Gore and why the hard line right wingers, read Faux News, and the like absolutely hate Al Gore and trash him in a way that is usually reserved for Bill Clinton.

On the day after Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize, The Wall Street Journal’s editors couldn’t even bring themselves to mention Mr. Gore’s name. Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long list of people they thought deserved the prize more.

And at National Review Online, Iain Murray suggested that the prize should have been shared with “that well-known peace campaigner Osama bin Laden, who implicitly endorsed Gore’s stance.” You see, bin Laden once said something about climate change — therefore, anyone who talks about climate change is a friend of the terrorists.

This is great, cause alerting folks about a possible environmental crisis is a terrible thing to do. It's so bad that one must lump them in with Public Enemy Number One since he has the same belief about the environment. You can never congratulate a man who has done some legitimate good for the people, or at least he's attempting to do that. No, you have to bash and act like a seven year old child whose parent won't buy him a toy while they're at the grocery store.

The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right. In 1992, George H. W. Bush mocked him as the “ozone man,” but three years later the scientists who discovered the threat to the ozone layer won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2002 he warned that if we invaded Iraq, “the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger to the United States than we presently face from Saddam.” And so it has proved.

But Gore hatred is more than personal. When National Review decided to name its anti-environmental blog Planet Gore, it was trying to discredit the message as well as the messenger. For the truth Mr. Gore has been telling about how human activities are changing the climate isn’t just inconvenient. For conservatives, it’s deeply threatening.

That is a big part right there, the right HATES being shown that it is wrong about any subject. All Al Gore has done since he was in the national and world spotlight is disprove many of the lies the right would have you believe. Instead of debating a man with facts and science, they ridicule his name and call him stinky and claim the man has cooties, since they is in their arsenal.

Al Gore is a difficult man to like, he can be a bit robotic, our own political version of Spock and his wife is an absolute horror. That being said, I'd still vote for him over any of the Republican candidates they currently have running. Check that, I'd still vote for him over ANY candidate running as I think he's taken the last seven years and stepped back from politics and realized what is important to him and to people. He hasn't be a part of the "Beltway" and seems to have a clearer view then he did before. Bottom line is he seems more, human.

Krugman sums it up with his very last paragraph:

Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible, than ever. And it drives them crazy.