With regard to Clinton, you seem to take pleasure to bring him up. I know you fixate on the legal perjury charges.
What bothers me with the prosecution of Clinton is that his detractors pretty much set him up to lie about the affair then prosecuted him for it (although he technically did not lie because no intercourse means no sex). Whatever was left of conservative decency was gone with the persecution of Clinton.
Yes, Clinton committed a legal mistake and paid the price for it. I’m sure that Romney won’t make the same legal mistake. Romney will somehow argue that his filings were legally accurate. But that would make his public pronouncements big fat lies. Whatever happened to Christian values making lying a sin?[/quote]
Brian: Please. Clinton was an exceptionally adept politician and a very skilled in-fighter. His handling of the hapless Newt Gingrich illustrates this quite well.
The idea that he was somehow led to slaughter by the GOP is risible and without merit. Does that mean it wasn’t a political witch-hunt? Nope, it absolutely was. Clinton was extremely popular and his “New Democrat” blueprint undoubtedly scared the shit out of the GOP and the rest, as they say, is history. But the idea that Clinton was this deer in the headlights is nonsensical. Politics is a bloodsport and the Clintons play it better than anyone. Just witness what Bubba has done to Obama (who, in case you haven’t noticed, is a member of the same party) for a taste of that.
You’re an intelligent guy, Brian, as your posts indicate. But you have this farcical notion that ALL Dems are innately pure, innocent and good and ALL Repubs are innately venal, evil and grasping. Not exactly the real world.
