I am loath to comment on anybody’s marriage. But Al and Tipper Gore made such a public virtue of their 40-year marriage that it’s impossible to resist a little schadenfreude over its demise.
Not to mention the irony that it’s Al and Tipper who are getting a divorce instead of Bill and Hillary Clinton … for obvious reasons. I am convinced, however, that if either Al or Tipper were still involved in politics (i.e., the way the Clintons are), the Gore’s would still be feigning marital bliss.
But without the need to court public opinion, it would not surprise me if it was Tipper who finally decided that she could no longer stand living with the self-righteous, if not hypocritical, climate-change crusader Gore has become.
Indeed, she can be forgiven for thinking that she would be far better off taking half of the reported $400 million he has amassed since leaving politics and living out the rest of her years with a more likable person. And call me crazy but I suspect that person for Tipper will be (or is) another woman, which, after 40 years with Al, would hardly be surprising.
Incidentally, the title stems from the fact that, in addition to telling a whopper about inventing the internet, Gore is infamous for telling another one about his relationship with Tipper being the basis for Eric Segal’s novel Love Story:
Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry…
No doubt this irony too will be completely lost on Al. I wish them both well.
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