JEFFERSON CITY - With John Kerry?s failure to
reach Missouri voters with his flip-flopping agenda and tax and spend
mentality, Al Gore has been called on to try and rally support in a state he
lost to President Bush four years ago.

Gore, who
couldn?t even win his home state of Tennessee, is scheduled to bring his
message of anger and divisiveness to St. Joseph tomorrow on behalf of Kerry
who is trailing the President in states like Iowa and Wisconsin that were
won by Gore four years ago. And while Vice President Dick Cheney took time
to visit St. Joseph just last month, Kerry has decided to send Al Gore in
his place.

"Desperate times call for desperate measures and John
Kerry is obviously desperate if he is bringing Al Gore to Missouri,"
said Paul Sloca, communications director for the Missouri Republican Party.
"Missouri voters rejected Al Gore in 2000 and they
are rejecting John Kerry now. When are these guys going to get the message
that their liberal, out of the mainstream politics and false promises don?t
sell here in Bush Country? They should go hawk their wares somewhere else."

Gore has a
history of denial of the threat of terrorism when as vice president in the
1990s he and the rest of Clinton administration failed to notice that Osama
bin Laden was declaring war on the United States five different times.

"It was President Bush who led America in the days
following Sept. 11 and it is President Bush who is committed to keeping
America safe from another terrorist attack. All Al Gore can offer is insults
and weakness in a time of war," Sloca said.
"Al Gore?s visit to Missouri is nothing but good news for Republicans and
bad news for John Kerry."