is "botched 2000 campaign" fair?
Love him or loathe him, Gore came close to the Presidency. It might make sense for him to have another go.
I've heard, and beleive, that it's pretty much impossible not to make enemies once you've taken office...Bush still has a few more years to make enemies. It could bode well for Gore.
Don't get me wrong, I like Dubya (I've probably made that amply clear in the past). But politics is a choppy ocean, and as Tom points out, it's a political eternity til the next election...