{"id":678,"date":"2010-06-07T21:59:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T03:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2010-06-07T21:59:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T03:59:30","slug":"al-and-tipper-split-the-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Al and Tipper Split the Sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a June 1st<\/sup> email distributed privately to family and friends, Al and Tipper Gore announced that they\u2019ve decided to separate after 40 years of marriage.\u00a0 They said, \u201cWe are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate.\u201d\u00a0 They went on to say that, \u201cThis is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration. \u00a0We ask for respect for our privacy and that of our family, and we do not intend to comment further.\u201d<\/p>\n

The immediate speculation was that a love affair was involved, but those closest to the Gores are convinced that this is not the case.\u00a0 The fact that author Joe McGinniss has not offered to sublet his rental in Wasilla, in favor of a sixteen-room rental next door to the Gore\u2019s in Nashville, is probably a good indication that Algore has not been playing around.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some Washington insiders, such as liberal Washington Post<\/em> writer Sally Quinn, believe that Gore\u2019s loss to George W. Bush in the 2000 General Election was a major underlying factor in the breakup.\u00a0 Many who know the Gores well are convinced that Gore has never gotten over his paper-thin loss to Bush.<\/p>\n

If that is truly the case, Gore probably has good reason for carrying a grudge\u2026 not against Bush, but against leaders of his own party.\u00a0\u00a0 If Democrats have stolen elections for others, which they have on many occasions, Gore might be forgiven for failing to understand why they couldn\u2019t have rigged the 2000 election in Florida in his favor.<\/p>\n

For example, Gore is aware that in 1960, when it appeared that Richard Nixon would defeat John F. Kennedy, Kennedy\u2019s father used his close ties to Chicago organized crime figures to fix the outcome of the election in Illinois.\u00a0 According to Washington Post<\/em> editor and publisher Ben Bradlee, a close Kennedy friend, Kennedy telephoned Chicago mayor Dick Daley on election night to get an update on the election results.\u00a0 Kennedy was told, \u201cMr. President, with a little bit of luck and the help of a few close friends, you\u2019re going to carry Illinois.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those \u201cfew close friends\u201d were members of Sam Giancana\u2019s organized crime family and the corrupt Daley machine\u2026 Barack Obama\u2019s political home.\u00a0 New York Herald Tribune<\/em> reporter Earl Mazo, suspecting that the election had been stolen, went to Chicago and initiated an in-depth investigation.\u00a0 He confirmed that the 1960 presidential election had, in fact, been stolen and began publishing a 12-part series on election fraud.\u00a0 Gore must wonder, if the party could do that for Kennedy in Illinois in 1960, why couldn\u2019t they do the same for him in Florida in 2000?<\/p>\n

In the 2002 Senate election in New Jersey, corrupt incumbent Robert Torricelli was given \u201cthe hook\u201d by New Jersey Democrats just 36 days before the November 5 General Election when it appeared that he would lose to his Republican opponent.\u00a0 In the days that followed, New Jersey Democrats sought to replace him with retired Senator Frank Lautenberg, in spite of a New Jersey law stipulating that a candidate may not withdraw from the ballot any later than 51 days prior to an election.<\/p>\n

Democrats took their case to the Democrat-dominated New Jersey Supreme Court and, not surprisingly, in New Jersey Democratic Party v. Samson, 175 N.J. 178 (2002), the Court ignored the law and allowed Democrats to make an eleventh-hour substitution of Lautenberg for Torricelli.\u00a0 Lautenberg was seated illegally in the United States Senate in January 2003 and remains there to this day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gore must wonder, if New Jersey Democrats could pull that off in 2002, why couldn\u2019t they pull out a victory for him in Florida in 2000.\u00a0 After all, many New Jersey \u201csnow bird\u201d Democrats regularly vote in both New Jersey and Florida.\u00a0 In September 2005, New Jersey Republicans announced the results of a study of voting practices within the state.\u00a0 Among other things, they found that some 170,000 New Jersey residents were registered to vote in more than one state, and that 6,500 of them had voted in two or more states in 2004.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the 2004 gubernatorial election in the State of Washington, Republican Dino Rossi won by less than 3,500 votes over Democrat Attorney General Christine Gregoire.\u00a0 Democrats demanded a recount in King County (Seattle), a heavily Democratic county, which produces roughly one-third of the statewide vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On November 12, King County Democrats began turning in affidavits testifying to the validity of provisional ballots, and four days later, on November 16, Democrats began \u201cfinding\u201d large numbers of ballots that had been mysteriously \u201cmisplaced\u201d \u2013 10,000 ballots on November 16 and 1,779 ballots on November 23.<\/p>\n

A recount on November 24 gave Rossi a slim 42 vote victory, but a hand recount demanded by Democrats on December 3 gave Gregoire a lead of 129 votes.\u00a0 And although Ms. Gregoire had herself quickly sworn in as governor, a subsequent review of King County election board records showed some 1800 more ballots cast than the number of voters who actually requested ballots.\u00a0 It was also learned that some 3,500 King County absentee ballots were sent out \u201cin error.\u201d\u00a0 Apparently not all of the \u201cphantom\u201d absentee ballots were voted, but a detailed hand count showed 810 more absentee ballots counted than could be accredited to actual absentee voters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Democrats simply kept voting and kept counting until they had enough votes to declare victory.\u00a0 Al Gore couldn\u2019t help but wonder, if Democrats could do that for Christine Gregoire in 2004, why couldn\u2019t they have done that for him in Florida in 2000?\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Minnesota, in 2008, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party succeeded in stealing a U.S. Senate seat, defeating incumbent Republican Norm Coleman in favor of television comic and failed Air America<\/em> talk show host, Al Franken.\u00a0 The initial vote count on election night showed Coleman leading by 215 votes, but Minnesota Democrats continued to \u201cfind\u201d previously uncounted ballots.\u00a0 They failed to \u201cfind\u201d any misplaced Coleman ballots but they continued to \u201cfind\u201d additional Franken votes until they had accumulated enough to declare him the winner. An official recount gave Franken a 225-vote edge. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Coleman filed a lawsuit, contending that a) ballots were allowed for Franken that shouldn’t have been, b) ballots for Coleman that should have been allowed were not, and c) damaged absentee ballots that had been duplicated ended up being counted twice, favoring Franken. \u00a0After months of litigation, a Democrat-leaning three-member trial court rejected all of those claims.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And now, in 2010, we have evidence that the White House Chief of Staff and the Deputy Chief of Staff, working on behalf of Barack Obama, have attempted to bribe at least two candidates for the U.S. Senate who opposed Obama\u2019s favored candidates in Pennsylvania and Colorado.\u00a0 In at least one instance they used a former president, Bill Clinton, as a messenger boy to deliver their bribery offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Florida, in 2000, Democrats sent lawyers around to most of the sixty-seven counties, seeking court orders prohibiting county election boards from counting absentee ballots from overseas military personnel that did not have a proper postmark.\u00a0 They challenged every possible chad\u2026 dangling, dimpled, and otherwise.\u00a0 And when all else failed they implored the Florida Supreme Court, comprised primarily of partisan Democrats, to intervene.\u00a0 Then, acting totally without jurisdiction in the presidential election process, the Court ordered recounts in only the four most heavily Democratic counties in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The initial count showed Bush with a 1,210 vote lead out of 6 million votes cast.\u00a0 The proper thing for Gore to do, under the circumstances, would have been to concede.\u00a0 But, unlike Nixon in 1960\u2026 who called New York Herald Tribune<\/em> writer Earl Mazo to ask that he stop publishing articles on the stolen election because the articles had the potential of creating a constitutional crisis at the height of the Cold War\u2026 Gore at first conceded, then later retracted his concession.<\/p>\n

It was left to the United States Supreme Court to stop the selective recount by pointing out that the Democrats\u2019 plan to reexamine only the ballots of the four most heavily Democratic counties represented a violation of the \u201cequal protection\u201d clause of the U.S. Constitution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

With each passing year, Gore has observed from the sidelines as Democrats at the state and federal level, from Obama on down, have used their influence to steal elections for other Democrats\u2026 but not for him.\u00a0 And with each election cycle, as the likes of Jack Kennedy, Frank Lautenberg, Christine Gregoire, and Al Franken have achieved political power through fraud and deceit, Al Gore felt nothing but salt being rubbed into his wounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gore apparently remains convinced that, in spite of all that was done to steal the 2000 election for him, it was not enough.\u00a0 Sharing home and hearth with an embittered Al Gore over the past ten years could not have been much of a picnic.\u00a0 So if we were to learn that Tipper is spending a lot of time these days partying it up with friends, we\u2019ll give her that.\u00a0 She\u2019s earned it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a June 1st email distributed privately to family and friends, Al and Tipper Gore announced that they\u2019ve decided to separate after 40 years of marriage.\u00a0 They said, \u201cWe are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}