Gore: I'll Give $6 Million to Defeat 'Outrageous' Bush

Al Gore today promised to give Democrat groups more than $6 million to help Sen. John Kerry fight what he called "the outrageous and misleading campaign being waged by the Bush-Cheney campaign."

Burdened by leftovers from his failed presidential campaign of 2000, the former veep vowed to donate $4 million to the Democratic National Committee to funnel to Kerry, $1 million each to the party's Senate and House committees and $250,000 to the party in his former home state, which did a Tennessee waltz over his dreams of moving up to the Oval Office.

Bonus: He's giving the $240,000 left from his failed coup attempt (i.e., his Florida recount fund), which paid for such schemes as trying to deny the counting of absentee ballots from troops serving overseas, to Florida's foundering and still-raging Democratic Party.

All Americans can agree on part of the statement Gore issued today: "The outcome of the election is extremely important for the future of our country."

Gore added: "I want to help John Kerry become president and I want to help Democrats retake control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives."

Another Kiss of Death?

The former vice president increased his irrelevancy last year by endorsing the prematurely swollen Howard Dean, who admitted in February, "I actually do think the endorsement of Al Gore began the decline."

Comical former Clintonista Paul Begala chimed in at the time, "I suppose people are going to be running away from Al Gore the way the devil runs away from holy water."

But $6 million-plus will buy, or at least rent, a lot of friends in Washington.

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