How many times must it be said?

Al Gore's Doomsday Clock

The stand-up comedy of  BRET STEPHENS

“ Al Gore gave a speech last week "challenging" America to run "on 100% zero-carbon electricity in 10 years" -- though that's just the first step on his road to "ending our reliance on carbon-based fuels." Serious people understand this is absurd. Maybe other people will start drawing the same conclusion about the man proposing it. The former vice president has also recently disavowed any intention of returning to politics. This is wise. As America's leading peddler of both doom and salvation, Mr. Gore has moved beyond the constraints and obligations of reality. His job is to serve as a Prophet of Truth. ”

After his opening monologue Stephens, writing for the Wall Street Journal's GLOBAL VIEW, juxtaposes reality against Gore's advocacy. (Quick - name the last Democrat presidential nominee who wasn't a walking puff of air?)  “ A more interesting question is why Mr. Gore remains believable. Perhaps people think that facts ought not to count against a man whose task is to raise our sights, or play Cassandra to unbelieving mortals. ” Like me, Stephens is unable to contemplate Gore without summoning Eric Hoffer.  His quotation from The True Believers, I feel, better  pertains  to the engineers of mass movements.-- the puppetmaster Hitlers, Lenins, and Soroses.  Al Gore has neither the vision, nor the brains.  No, his role is one of useful idiot. As a former vice-president, make that very useful, but still a sorry-ass who, without any, is looking for self-esteem. By the bye,  Moonbattery has two excellent posts on the subject The Goracle Debates Another Wheel Comes Off the Global Warming Hoax