‘Blame Bush’ Du Jour: Ending the Gore Marriage
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
When it comes to things that caused Al and Tipper Gore to lose sleep and ultimately their love for each other, it turns out that George W. Bush was higher on the list than chlorofluorocarbons and Twisted Sister — at least according to a “family friend.”
I’m more than a little ashamed of myself that in my first post about the Gore separation that I didn’t think to blame Bush for Al and Tipper’s marital breakdown — but fortunately CBS News and Sally Quinn were there to pick up the slack:
Family friend Sally Quinn told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson that Gore winning the popular vote for president but losing the electoral vote may have done the marriage irreparable harm.
“He’s obviously suffered a lot,” Quinn said. “He’ll never get over that and neither will she.”
Video of the CBS piece is here. Yet another thing to add to the list.
The Clintons are still not officially separated though. What a weird decade.
On this topic, here’s a little presidential trivia:
Four candidates won the popular vote but lost the presidency: Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but lost the election to John Quincy Adams (1824); Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote but lost the election to Rutherford B. Hayes (1876); Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the election to Benjamin Harrison (1888); Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George W. Bush (2000).
Jackson, Tilden, and Cleveland all went through the same thing as Al Gore but none of them ever divorced over it (Tilden was never married and died a bachelor). For many, this is evidence of one thing: George W. Bush is not only unspeakably evil, but now he’s the kind of homewrecker for which there is no precedent! (Sally Quinn is the kind of homewrecker for which there is precedent)
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It’s true. Losing a presidential election is the cause of numerous divorces. Just look at the long list of breakups…
John and Cindy McCain
John Kerry and Teresa Heinz (she even dropped his last name after the defeat)
Bob and Elizabeth Dole
Michael and Kitty Dukakis
Walter and Joan Mondale
etc., etc., etc…
Weird how leftist’s non functioning brain pretends.
I blame Bush for stubbing my toe today.
Here is another bit of presidential trivia. Andrew Jackson was married to a woman named Rachel, who was divorced from her first hubby. That was a bit of a scandal at the time. President Reagan was on his second marriage when he was elected president. His first marriage to Jane Wyamn had ended in divorce. President Reagan may have been the first president to have been divorced before being president. I am not sure this is correct but I can’t think of any other divorced presidents.
Here’s irony. The Clinton marriage lasts longer than the Gore marriage. Who knew?
The Clinton marriage is nothing but a farce. She’s a coattail hangin’ opportunist. Plain and simple.
I think that’s a ringer. Dr Man/Bear/Pic always seemed more than upset and dissapointed by that election. It almost seemed like some kind of psychopathic deep seeded bitterness and hatred – and his whole hyper intense gloom and doom global warming drama was acting out. Can a man get some anger management??!
He shoots, he scores!
Sally Quinn is a real snooty snob, and everyone knows it.
Plus she slept her way into the WaPo pages.
Ouch!
OT but I have to comment on the hypocrisy.
Juan Williams was on O’Reilly going on about how the Sestak issue is a non-issue because “no jury” would convict anyone of this crime.
So this is what the liberals are resorting to. They won’t admit the Obama administration committed a crime and they’ll equivocate till the cows come home about how America thinks this stuff is just politics. But they clearly know the law was broken, but it’s Ok for “their guy”.
These scum-sucking worms need to be dragged out of Washington.
I blame myself. An entire life misspent walking on cracks on the sidewalks… And it’s not like I wasn’t warned either… Deep down inside, I guess I always knew it would lead to something like this.
So what’s for dinner? Smells good!
OT, but a really fun palate cleanser…
This one goes out to all you minivan families out there…
(You can find the lyrics here)
Classic.
The Gores are in their early 60s, so why split now? Can’t they just live in opposite ends of their energy-guzzling Tennessee mansion? Or, since they now have two energy-guzzling mansions, they could occupy seperate homes. A divorced Algore will be a whole new level of hilarity. What if he does speed-dating? “Hi, I’m Al, and I’d have been President, except George Bush got snippy with me and the American people are wrong wrong wrong! Don’t reject me or I’ll call a recount!”
Turns out Hildabeast was a “stand by your man” gal after all. What a phoney!
BlameAmericaLast said:
As Dennis Miller said,
Who gets to keep the mansions and Private jet? Wouldn’t want Al flying commercial to his GW conferences.
Well, the Gores are Southern Baptists from Tennessee. Ipso facto, it was bound to happen.
I think Tipper Gore might be resigning as wife before the mainstream media finally accept that Global Warming is a fraud.
She probably wants to try to separate herself from the pending humiliation Al will suffer.
and the Mariners are upset that they got more hits than the other team, but lost on the “runs” technicality.
Gore needed a divorce to go with his Hollywood image. I sense another movie in the works.
…the doornails in her house keep mocking here…
here= her of course. Hey it’s 4am …
So what are you saying, Chappy? Is Manbearpig gonna lose the double-wide? Or will he and Tipper still be cousins?
If Sally Quinn said this room was on fire, I’d have to see the flames. Quinn is nothing but an over paid gossip. She has no credibility, none.
Sally Quinn got her career and life the old fashioned way, she screwed the boss for it. How dare these conservative women go out there and build careers for themselves without doing the expedient horizontal mambo with the boss. That goes for male whores like Kerry also, and lest zz think I’m biased, McCain also.
He will never get over that his crew were not quite the thieves he hired them for.His marriage ends because of that.Who would have thought.
Gee, for such a lousy president, that George Bush sure was a powerful man!
/sarc
Gore lost an election and sacrificed his marriage of 40 years as a result? I can understand it if he lost a child as I have seen people driven to the edge of insanity and suicide by such a loss, but this is just an election. Get over it and preserve your family as, in the end, as Michael Corleone of the Godfather movies found out, all you eventually have is family.
Give me a break. Actually Tipper got corrupted by editing all those video games for evil content. She discovered Al wasn’t the man she thought he was.
Right, because being a Hypocritical Diva Scumbag pushing bunk science on the world has nothing to do with it. Right, Blaming bush seems like an easier foil LOL.
Sally Quinn, that says it all right there. Blaming Bush for this and that… had no idea he was so omnipotent (sarcasm )
I just read the Lord article. Who knew? Because of her sliming of Palen, she deserves this review, but I never would have read this trash about trash otherwise. When I see her dignified by O’Reilly with national exposure in the future I will tune out.
So,what she is saying is that perhaps if Al had been more obsessed with Tipper than he was with a man then their marriage would have survived….
I love how the libs are able to justify the illegal actions of their base. Juan sometimes surprises me when he uses his brain and doesn’t spout the Dem play book but on this one he just couldn’t help himself. I don’t think he understands the mood of the American public.
How would he justify the Sestak thing if this happened when W was in office? Oh, that’s right, he’d be calling for the impeachment and jail time.
Now back to man-bear-pig and wife. WGARA (Who Gives a Rat’s Ass)
I’m almost positive I heard a certain weepy Louisiana congressman blame Bush this morning for the oil spill. But I was fixing my hair & could have heard it wrong…
Regardless, the important task was accomplished. Today I look fierce.
ManBearPig will put on his “Cloak of the Wondering Huckster” and walk the land seeking more sheep to fleece and convert to the tribe of Green.
OT, but
Gag me with a left-handed bass guitar.
ArizonaNeanderthal said:
I really can’t remember it that well but didn’t Frank Zappa hand her, her ass like a hat(Tipper) when that Music labeling thing was going on in Wash?
George Bush aka Clubber Lang: [Calling to Tipper; Smooth talks] Hey, Woman. Hey, Woman! Listen here. Since your old man ain’t got no heart, maybe you like to see a real man. I bet you stay up late every night dreamin’ you had a real man, don’t ya? I’ll tell you what. Bring your pretty little self over to my apartment tonight, and I’ll show you a real man.
Need anymore proof that Paul is an ass and broke up the Beatles?
The product of too many drugs on Abbey Road.
Whoa…. A freakishly bizarre explanation.
I heard she was hanging with some guy in Florida named Chad, who I understand was hung, or something.
Who wrote the angst-ridden column yesterday over the split indicating that it would have preferable if “W” and Laura split? That will happen about when hell freezes over. The far left is terminally childish. And while I’m no Hillary fan, Bill would be nothing without her. She had the political vision and saw Bill had the goods to fulfill it. A match made in hell if ever there was.
Every state needs to have a law that guarantees each member of the military serving overseas can vote in an election by using their secure e-mail. Gore did not want the military absentee ballots counted because they supposedly arrived in the U.S. too late. He is a loser. Maybe Tipper had all the lies she could tolerate whereas Hillary thrives on them.
But our gal Sal is quite crafty….
Look how she is trying to shift the focus from exploring what really caused the marriage to fail.
Our train is about to jump the tracks again.
Dimpled?
That could be the reason. Yet, people don’t stay married 40 years and then decide to separate for whatever “differences”. If you haven’t solved all problems in 40 years, something is definitely wrong. There is something else going on, for sure.
Or, it could be because he spends all his time in the never-ending quest for relevance and she needed a life. Mrs Global Warming Scam is not an attractive identity.
Sancho can only watch Gorexote tilt at so many AGW windmills. Oh, the irony!
Buying the new mansion in Cali was no coincidence.
What made AlGore sick about the election was having to play by the rules.
That’s why he took it to the SCOTUS.
Saucy wench!
It’s the consummation of Al’s ascendancy into martyrdom for hi$ cause: Gore’s dedication and devotion to healing the Earth required him to sacrifice everything – even his marriage! To break it down for liberals: Gaia is the other woman.
How is Bush to blame for Tipper finally fed up with her sham of a marriage to a closeted gay man?
If I remeber right, the Gore campaign thought that George W. Bush might win the majority vote, but that Al Gore would win the electoral vote. They seemed to be attepting to prepare folks for that expected reality; however, it went the other way. The Gore campaign had no problems with the law as long as it was slanted their way, isn’t that how liberals always think?
If this had been a prominent Republican couple divorcing not only would the media be
insistinginsinuating adultery was the cause but that spousal abuse also played a role!Do we know have sufficient data to conclude without any doubt whatsoever that Sally Quinn is an idiot?
Gore, who? The only Gore I know about is some has-been politician who is currently a scam artist selling snake oil carbon credits to dumb “green” slubs. She’s takin’ the money and runnin’ for them thar hills. That way, when the truth comes out, nobody will be able to touch HER money.
My mother-in-law was in a hospital waiting room for my wife to come out of surgery last year, and these two very obese ‘sisters’ sitting nearby just kept complaining about how everything was Dubya’s fault. My mother-in-law accidentally dropped a hardcover book on the floor, landing with a loud ‘crash,’ then exclaimed ‘Damn that George Bush.’ The two women were puzzed. What did he do now? ‘It’s gotta be Bush’s fault. Listening to you two, everything else is!’
They didn’t say another word.
On June 2nd, 2010 at 1:32 pm, warden said:
What is the source of the rumor about Al Gore being a closeted gay man?
The gay guys who run hillbuzz don’t say anything about Al’s orientation, but they do say that both Obama and Rahm Emanuel frequented a gay bath house called “Man’s Country”.
Actually, there were five. Nixon won the popular vote; Kennedy won the electoral vote.
Once, a philosopher. Twice, a homosexual.
– Voltaire, when asked to revisit an all male brothel.
Wow! Lots of astute observations today! This makes perfect sense, FirstSkirt.
Unfortunately, there are only two ways. Everything she says and everything she writes.
Do these people have no shame? Is there anything for which George W. Bush bears no responsibility? You’d think he was responsible for Original Sin. Hmmm. Now that I think about it…
Not him, but I’ll bet that argument could be made about Laura. LOL
George Bush killed my azaleas, wrecked my transmission, and broke my windshield. I’m fed up with it all!
George Bush is King in my world because he single handedly pisses off all liberals throughout the world with the ease of a God. All conservatives owe him a debt of gratitude for this simple phenomenom.
I’ll never look at Love Story the same way again.
O. the humanity.
Perhaps it was all those “Eco-friendly” tree huggers throwing themselves at the “prophet” of global warming….
I just want to know who gets custody of the $9,000,000.00 pleasure palace Al and Tipper just bought with their income from
snake oil salescarbon credit sales.