Mort Kondracke and Mara Liasson on Gore's speech:

In a speech that made Dean's wild yell look calm and collected, Gore charged that Bush "betrayed this country.. . .with betraying the U.S. and taking "America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure, dangerous to our troops,. . . that was preordained and planned before 9-11."

Mort: "I think that we can all thank God, that Al Gore was not elected president of the United States. I question whether this man is stable in a crisis."

"Worse than Dean!"

"There is nothing that you can imagine that Al Gore would not say about George Bush."

Mara: "This is what Fred usually does, but 'Just imagine if a Republican said this about Democrats.'"