When Gore ran for president in 2000, he emphasized his marriage and family to separate himself from the recently impeached Clinton.

Gore made a spectacle of them at the Democratic convention by awkwardly French kissing Tipper on stage.

until her husband was elected to Congress as a Democratic representative in 1976.

Neither Al nor Tipper Gore has responded to this or any other allegation of extra marital affairs.

Sex scandals are interesting to the public because of our prurient curiosity into the private lives of public figures, but why is Gore’s alleged cheating relevant to the public?

From a political perspective, Al and Tipper Gore used their marriage as a counterbalance to the albatross of the Clinton’s marriage when he was vice president.

She also advocated greater public awareness of health problems such as AIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and for issues such as mental health.

Tipper Gore, the former Second Lady who lives mostly in Virginia, returned to Nashville, a former hometown, on Nov.