Gore DID beat Bush and he IS charimatic! I'm specifically talking about Kerry. The perception of Gore was that he was a boring stiff guy and even though that wasn't true that was the narrative. So the Dems go ahead and nominate a guy who actually IS boring and stiff. Gore was the right nominee for 2000 but Kerry was completely wrong for 2004. The reason Kerry got the nomination is because the media sabotaged Dean with the "Dean Scream" once he threatened to break up the media conglomorates. Once that happened the Dems should have rallied around Clark. 2000 may not have been as close as 2000 but it was a winnable election had the Dems nominated someone else.