They helped save Clinton by turning his ugly sexual exploitation of non status females and his criminality, into an image of a lovable rogue that has an eye for the ladies, a kind of lovable national stud, pleasing, and amusing, to it’s hip young audience.
If he had been a Republican with the same exact presidency, they would have destroyed him as Chevy Chase admits (and thinks that he succeeded) that they were doing with Ford, and Palin.
They tried with all the Republicans. Dana Carvey as bush 1 will farrell as bush 2. I can’t really think of who did Reagan. Phil Hartman?