Gore Derangement Syndrome

"Hey wingnuts! Our guy just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Your guy can barely tuck his shirt in."

Paul Krugman on the ungracious, bitter and childish tantrums the knuckledraggers are having over Al Gore:

"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...

"Partly it’s a reaction to what happened in 2000, when the American people chose Mr. Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the White House. Both the personality cult the right tried to build around [the incompetent, drooling Moron-in-Chief] and the often hysterical denigration of Mr. Gore were, I believe, largely motivated by the desire to expunge the stain of illegitimacy from the Bush administration...

"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."

And Bush is still a mouthbreathing, cretinous asswipe and a colossal failure, with a legacy headed for the shitter as possibly the worst president ever. Heh.


Goober.