Gore was a founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, the moderate Democrats who moved the party to the center. In 2000, he ran as a “people against the powerful” populist. Now he’s endorsing Dean and joining the liberal wing of the party to oppose the Clinton centrists.

...Clinton, for all his moral failings, talked comfortably about religion, and Jimmy Carter was a born-again Christian. Dean is puzzled why minimum-wage workers who have no health benefits would vote Republican. The answer he’d rather not hear is they care more about God, gays and guns than health care. “Our challenge is to raise the cultural armies in our America while not waking the sleeping giant in their America,” Rove tells Bush in Greenberg’s fictional account. Dean’s challenge if he becomes the nominee is to elevate the debate, and to make this election about real issues and contrasts, and not about which guy you’d rather sit next to in a church pew. [ read it all ]

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