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...almost too rich to pick from, and if you believe the Gore folks, all were off target. While each man played some part in getting the Vice President to bring Coelho aboard, Gore aides say the pivotal role belonged to the one person no one suspected--Gore's wife Tipper. Several campaign aides described Tipper as the godmother of the shuffle, the biggest fan of the deal. One added that Tipper, far more than the half-dozen bickering guys in Gore's inner circle, "knew there had to be some help in here. Somebody was needed to knock some heads...
Could this be true? Tipper Gore, fun-loving Tipper Gore, is really the secret mastermind at Gore headquarters? It was a bit hard to believe, but it at least had the virtue of being consistent with recent history. Like Hillary Clinton, who worked quietly behind the scenes to bring Dick Morris back from exile so he could rescue her struggling husband in 1994, Tipper hasn't been shy about telling her husband to snap out of it. And Tipper has been doing more than fixing things inside the Gore operation; she's also been fixing things on the outside. Just...
...course, just having something warm running through her veins may be one reason Tipper, and not Al, had to be the one tagged with bringing the cold-blooded Coelho aboard. Coelho, after all, is a ferocious partisan, who took no prisoners in the Reagan years and resigned from Congress in 1989 rather than face questions about how he came to purchase on favorable terms a $100,000 junk bond from a Democratic donor. Gore is stalked by campaign-finance ghosts of his own, and so it will look a bit better if Coelho turns out to be Tipper's idea...
...times, as sweet as a side order of candied yams. She continues, "I wanted to be in [the urban action film] Set It Off so bad, I wanted to rob a bank so bad ..." One tries to picture Brandy with a firearm. It's difficult. One tries to picture Tipper Gore with an AK-47. That's easier. Brandy keeps going: "I was a happy little girl. Now I'm a woman. I'm just trying to challenge myself. Why can't I play a country girl from Texas who decides to kill...
...shown what he is made of by becoming shadow Commander in Chief during the war in Kosovo, Al Gore may do the same during the war in the schools. Unlike so many others, he didn't single out culture or guns for blame, but immediately addressed both. He and Tipper were for values before it was cool. If his below-radar efforts last week are successful, the man who clumsily claimed to have created the Internet may be the one to clean it up, getting the biggest players to voluntarily keep the worst sites from children...