Maybe because he's not an announced candidate, Al Gore's position on impeachment has escaped the scrutiny given to the positions of the announced candidates. Then again, maybe it's also because Gore is so popular, having received universal praise for his leadership on Live Earth and his judgment on a whole host of issues, that the pro-impeachment people don't want to discuss the fact that Gore disagrees with them on their issue.
Anyway, here is what Gore said in an interview with Gwen Ifill of PBS:
GWEN IFILL: You've been a leader. You served in Bill Clinton's administration as vice president. You watched as the Republican Congress impeached him. Do you think that the Democratic-led Congress right now should be making efforts to impeach George W. Bush?
AL GORE: I haven't made that case. You know, I think that, with...
GWEN IFILL: Why not?
AL GORE: Well, with a year and a half to go in his term and with no consensus in the nation as a whole to support such a proposition, any realistic analysis of that as a policy option would lead one to question the allocation of time and resources.
GWEN IFILL: You don't think it's a good use of time?
AL GORE: Well, I don't think it is. I don't think it would be likely to be successful.
Read more of the interview:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june07/gore_05-30.html
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