re: Your premise is that people will want Gore as an independent
Just like Michael Moore, he may play against his own party because he'll make a heckuva lot more money during a GOP term than he will if Clinton or Obama are in office.
He needs hangers-on and fanatics to be riled and upset and have no one besides him to turn to, to save the world.
He hates Hillary's guts and if displacing her while enriching himself is feasible, he'll just play the media spotlight, as he's been doing, and let the "write-in" vote do its damage.
Moore or Gore - mansions and that first class traveling lifestyle costs major money to keep up.
Playing the suckers, who put their fate in the hands of others, for a buck is what they have been doing all their lives.
Why would he stop now?