Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a Presidential election that was too close to call.
Neither the Republican presidential candidate nor the Democratic presidential candidate had enough votes to win the election.
There was much talk about ballot recounting, about challenges, etc.but it was decided that there should be an ice fishing contest between the two candidates to determine the final winner.
Therefore, a week-long ice fishing competition seemed the (manly) way to settle things.
The candidate that caught the most fish at the end of the week would win. After a lot of back and forth discussion, it was decided that the contest would take place in a remote and cold lake in Wisconsin.
There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out separately on this remote lake and return daily with their catch for counting and verification.
At the end of the first day, Kerry returned to the starting line and he had
10 fish. Bush W returned and had zero fish.Well, everyone assumed he was just having another bad day or something and hopefully, he would catch up the next day. At the end of the 2nd day, Kerry came in with 20 fish and W came in again with none.
That evening, Dick Cheney got together secretly with W and said, "I think Kerry is a lowlife cheatin' son-of-a-gun. I want you to go out tomorrow and don't even bother with fishing. Just spy on him and see if he is cheating in any way."
The next night (after Kerry came in with 50 fish), Cheney said to Bush, "Well, what about it, is Kerry cheatin'?"
"He sure is, Dick, he's cutting holes in the ice."