Gore doesn't merely change sides. People he once agreed with are now callous and cold-blooded killers. But the Gore Disconnect is a complete dislocation, as odd as Ivana Trump's face lift. Gore now seems to be a whole other person. And this person consistently lies.
Many politicians shade their remarks to the tastes of their audience.
But they usually recognize that this is an age of taping and video, that people keep records, that what you said before can be thrown back in your face. Gore, however, seems above these considerations, or beneath them, or simply beyond them. He lies, lies, and lies over again, in the face and the teeth of the evidence. He often insists that things never happened, though the proof is on tape, or in writing, or embedded firmly in other people's minds. From 1992 until early this summer, for example, he vigorously denied that he had ever voted pro-life.