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Al Gore’s Kid Arrested Again for Driving While Polluted (Bump And Addendum)

Ya know, some things are just too rich to pass up.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – [1] The 24-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore was arrested for drug possession on Wednesday after he was stopped for allegedly speeding in his hybrid Toyota Prius, a sheriff’s official said.

Al Gore III — whose father is a leading advocate of policies to fight global warming — was driving his environmentally friendly car at about 100 miles per hour on a freeway south of Los Angeles when he was pulled over by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy at about 2:15 a.m..

A subsequent search yielded a small amount of marijuana, along with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin and Adderall, said sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino. There were no prescriptions found, he said.

The story goes on to remind is that this is young Gore’s second brush with the law, as regards drugs.

As I say, this one was just too rich to pass up, but it’s also rich enough that I don’t even think I need to comment on it.

Bump and Addendum: (Bit)

Captain Ed notes the story this morning: [2]

I understand the impulse to treat politics as a bloodsport, but even those who prefer that mode should really limit their attacks to the combatants.

I know that some bloggers are having fun with this, and I don’t mean to be too critical of my friends, but it’s at the same level as the attacks on Jenna and Barbara Bush. We may dislike Al Gore’s policies and sanctimony, but that shouldn’t apply to his son. His misfortunes tell us nothing about his father’s policy or sanctimony, and as an adult, Al III answers for himself. Attacking Gore through his son amounts to a cheap shot.

To the extent that the younger Gore broke the law and endangered people, he should be prosecuted and punished in accordance with the law and precedent of California. Let the folks in California deal with it. Mocking the Gores has little to do with any substantive victory but merely personal attacks that do nothing to advance a political cause.

A noble sentiment.  However, I’m going to disagree with Ed, here.
I am reminded of Doug Wead’s extensive paper on President’s Children, written for then VP George W. Bush, which later became a book that perhaps sheds some light on all this… All The President’s Children. [3]

For those who don’t remember, Wead goes into great detail as regards the family history of each of the presidents, Specifically the 159 or so children of Presidents, to that time, and examines what can only be termed the high rate of failure in such families.

I am also reminded of a two hour documentary on the issue, put on by the A& E. network a few years back. Hal Erikson of All Movie Guide descried it this way:

In this special episode of the A&E Network documentary series Biography, the advantages and disadvantages of being children of the President of United States are disseminated in a frank and entertaining fashion. Beginning with the troublesome stepson of George Washington, the special goes on to analyze the lives and accomplishments (or, in some sad cases, the lack of same), of such high-profile progeny as Tad Lincoln, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Luci and Linda Johnson, Steven Ford, Amy Carter, Patti Davis and Chelsea Clinton. In some cases, tragedy struck the presidential families through their offspring, as witness the lingering death of little Willie Lincoln and the unexpected demise of Calvin Coolidge Jr. after sustaining a foot blister while playing tennis. Also grist for the mill are the two sons of presidents who went on to become chief executives themselves: John Quincy Adams and George W. Bush. Many presidential children are interviewed, parsing no words as they recall the trials and tribulations of living in the shadow of the most important political figure of the free world. Also on hand is the Associated Press’ White House correspondent, Helen Thomas, defending the media’s sometimes incessant, often obsessive coverage of the children of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Yet, in each and every one of the cases where Children of Republicans were involved, Democrats were quick to jump on the attack. … Even in the case of vice president Cheney’s daughter for simply engaging in a lifestyle that liberals normally find nothing wrong with, and not even worth commenting on, if there were not a Republican involved.
Clearly, Democrats have no problems whatsoever in using this kind of thing as a political weapon.  Why should I? And, as I have stated elsewhere in this site, the fastest way to lose a war, is to announce to your enemy the weapons you will not use. With all that in mind, I have no worries whatsoever about picking up their own weapon and beating the snot out of them with it.

I respectfully submit that the illegal activities taken on by “G3”, and the attitudes that led to them, are the direct result of the values and the attitudes passed on to him by his father, and his father’s circle of friends. The failure is parenting? Certainly… but more deeply, what we see is the logical consequence of the values that those of Al Gore’s stripe are trying to get the rest of us to follow. PAW: If liberals want an understanding of the failures of the country, vis-a-vie’ liberal non-thought, all they have to do was look at what it’s done to their own kids.
Think about it; the recent dancing about Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, and so on… the underlying national comment in all those cases was parental responsibility for what they became. There were any number of instances of such conclusions with more dramatic and tragic consequences… the two teenagers behind the attacks at Columbine high school, for example. Those are just a few of them were famous cases; or, infamous.
Further, as demonstrated with the attacks on the Bush daughters, the Democrats (And in this, I include the press) have no worries about the kind of (I think false) nobility that The Captain calls as to here. Indeed Democrat politicos and the mainstream media have both made such attacks a staple.

How many writeups have we seen about Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter? How many writeups about the Bush twins? As a matter of history, how many stories did we see about Mrs. Reagan, Mrs. Nixon, have we forgotten totally about the recent attacks on Fred Thompson’s wife?  If these are all right for attack, if these are all indications of failure of a republican philosophy, which is clearly the underlying charge when democrats point these things out, how is it out of bounds for Republicans to do the same?  How is it that Democrats get a pass on this stuff?

Sorry, but in my view they don’t, even though clearly the press feels that way… I note this morning paltry coverage of the event as compared to the feeding frenzy that resulted from 18 year old Jenna Bush trying to get a beer at a party.

Further; Do we have any indication that if we were to stop pointing out the foibles of the families of Democrats, that they’d stop similarly attacking Republican families?  You know we don’t.  Sorry, they’re not getting a pass from me.  Fair is fair, gird your loins, sucka.

There’s another point to be made here, now that we’ve allowed ourselves the distinct privilege (Snort!) of the direct comparison; I submit there is a major difference between a couple of eighteen year old girls of whatever parentage trying to get a beer, and a twenty year old repeat offender loaded down with controlled substances, driving his vehicle and 100 miles an hour while under the influence of same, thus endangering other people’s lives.