He will think whatever is appropriate to the politics of the moment, so what's the point in noting or commenting on his positions on anything? If anything ever proved that Democratic politicians are convinced that their constituents are incapable of rational thought, it's their willingness to say one thing one week and its exact opposite the next week, certain that none of their voters will be able, or willing, to call them on it.

I'll let someone else comment.

From Andrew Sullivan:

NOW WE KNOW: I wonder what Al Gore's champions in the 2000 race who belong to the Scoop Jackson wing of the Democratic party must think now. Gore unveiled himself in the 2000 campaign as a left-liberal on domestic matters - favoring race-baiting, corporation-bashing and pseudo-populism. But his neo-liberal supporters still supported him. They argued that he was still a foreign policy hawk, that he favored strong American action in the Balkans, that he backed the first Gulf War, that he was pro-Israel to the core. Now we know he was faking that as well. His comments on the war do not surprise me. They don't make Gore an isolationist, or a reluctant warrior on terror, or any other kind of ideologue. They just show that he is a pure opportunist, with no consistency in his political views on foreign or domestic policy. He'll say whatever he thinks will get him power or attention or votes. How else to explain his sudden U-turn on Iraq? Two years ago, he was demanding that Saddam must go. Seven months ago, he was calling for a "final reckoning" with Iraq, a state that was a "virulent threat in a class by itself." Now, with Saddam far closer to weapons of mass destruction, Gore is happy to see Saddam stay in place. Even the New York Times, in a piece written to soften the hard edges of Gore's attack on Bush, conceded that "his appearance here suggested a shift in positioning by Mr. Gore, who has for 10 years portrayed himself as a moderate, particularly when it comes to issues of foreign policy." You can say that again.

My sympathies to those leftists and liberals who will be forced to back this non-entity in future years because the Democratic Party will be unable to field anyone better.