I know fluffers fluff and hacks hack and wannabes wanna be, but when the entry-level establishment dipshits get on their horse about the 2000 election, you know you are in for some simple-minded bullshit.
The reality of the 2000 election, in hindsight, sure, but plenty visible in real time back then as well, that reality was that Gore was running a titanically bad campaign in the midst of an especially hostile media environment, so each of Gore's utterly preventable mistakes loom larger than mundane size XXXL fuckups.
Lieberman was the worst choice and did indeed cost him the election. Lieberman was an albatross everywhere the Gore campaign ran--and certainly fucking Connecticut was never in doubt. Gore needed to pick a VP who could deliver a rare net positive, and he fucked it up. Lieberman was not even neutral; everyone with half a brain was repulsed by that jowly motherfucker. And when the election was close enough to be stolen out from under you even when you win, as Gore did, each of those mistakes turns out to be the one that lost it for you. Gore had to be good to win by a proper measure, and he sucked major ass. Lieberman was one of the signs of that major ass sucking, and that killed Gore's prospects.
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