Republican presidential candidate and Texas Governor George W. Bush was defeated by Democratic presidential candidate and current Vice President Al Gore on Monday in a game of "I Went on a Picnic".

Bush was asked to this game of wits five months ago and has just now gotten around to answering the challenge.

At the time, Bush representatives said he was ready to prove himself beyond the media's image of a smooth-talking nitwit.

Gore supporters noted that the five months Bush took to respond to the challenge were mostly used to train him on spontaneous adaptation and basic recognition skills.

It was agreed beforehand that the game of "I Went on a Picnic" would be played to three rounds. However, the starting time was never resolved, so Bush walked into Gore's hotel room four hours after Gore had gotten there.

Gore started the first round with, "I went on a picnic and I brought Bill Clinton." Bush replied with "my rich ex-Presidential father". Gore continued forward with "citizens of Kosovo", thus thwarting Bush's sucess in the first game, as he did not even know where Kosovo was.

Bush began the second round with, "I went on a picnic and I brought a personality." Gore instantly lost the second round.

Gore again started the third round of exchanges with, "I went on a picnic and I brought Joe Leiberman." Bush responded with, "I went on a picnic and I brought Joe Leiberman and Dick." Gore resumed the battle with "I went on a picnic and I brought Joe Leiberman, Dick, and an I.Q. of over 80." Bush repeated the first two items without hesitation, but was flummoxed on the pronunciation of I.Q.

Once they knew Gore had won, the Democratic camp jumped out of their seats and gave a round of high-fives.

The Republican group dismissed the exercise as "pointless" and "skewed toward the Democrat's 'intelligence'". Bush could not be reached for comment because he was still trying to pronounce the abbreviation that locked in Gore's victory.

Former Reform party presidential candidate Ross Perot said, "This here game is quite silly. Why not just buy everything when you are at the camp?"