Let's be honest. If there's one area where Al Gore is vulnerable, it's on campaign reform. Bush could kill Gore on campaign reform. But, he insists, he learned from his mistakes and is now an enthusiastic champion of campaign reform. But it worked for John McCain.
Nobody can match the passion of a repentant sinner.
Take him up on his offer. Agree to ban all soft money, as a first step to total campaign reform. Ah, but there's the rub. Bush can never do that because, long before the campaign, he made an unholy promise to Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell that he would never do anything to derail the Republicans' vast soft money machine. In other words, George W. Bush is locked in against campaign reform.