He says he is a constitutional strict constructionist. He says he trusts the people, not the government. No surprise there. All mainstream politicians are liars. Politics is the art of determining how organized force is to be used in society.
Force is essentially a negative thing.
It destroys things and prevents things from happening. Life, however, requires the production of positives-wealth, knowledge, ethical values, social bonds. While politicians, including George W. Bush, tell the people, oxymoronically, that government can be a force for good, government cannot be such since its only tools are negative-threats, imprisonment, roadblocks, shooting, bombing, strip searches and lethal injection. Both Gore and Bush intend to hammer us hard. Government is good at war because war is destruction, not production.