More Algore

From NRO:

Immanentize The Eschaton Watch   [Jonah Goldberg] 

Al Gore today in the New York Times:

From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.

How does this stem from the standpoint of governance — whatever that means?

Surely, a claim is in trouble when you can swap out a phrase like "from the standpoint of governance" and helpfully replace it with "from the standpoint of Glaxar: Supreme Ruler of the Known Universe" or "from the standpoint of the Hale-Bopp Cult..."