Why didnt Al Gore run on a platform of "if it aint broke, dont fix it" in 2000?

[Mr.Phips]

I mean seriously, in 2000, things were going almost perfectly.  No wars, a great economy, and three straight years of budget surplus.  This type of message was part of Bush 41's successful 1988 campaign, so why didnt Gore use this in 2000?

[Mr.Phips]

For some reason, he thought the swing voters hated Clinton over the Monica scandal.

Clinton wouldnt have had a 70% approval rating in 2000 without swing voters strongly approving of him.

[Mr.Phips]

Things were noticeably broke in the markets in 2000. The dot com bubble popped in March 2000 and the Dow flatlined losing 6% of its value that year. The Nasdaq lost so much value that people began to joke about their retirement plans becoming 201k's instead of 401k's.

Most of the decline didn't occur until right after the election.  Consumer confidence and right/track wrong figures were all extremely positive until that point as well.