What if VP Gore Had Shot Someone?

For comparison's sake, let's just imagine what Republican reaction would be if this were, say, 1998, and Vice President Gore, while on a secret weekend trip with a friend and two women not their wives, had gotten liquored up, shotgunned that friend in the chest, and then waited a day before reporting the offense. Let's extend the same kindness, courtesy, and benefit of the doubt to Cheney that Gore would have gotten from the Republicans if the situations were reversed....

From the blog "Political Animal"