"We all know that the Republicans acted against their own interests when they impeached President Clinton in 1998, because this caused an electoral backlash against them in 1998. But what few realize is that the Democrats, too, at this time, acted against their own self-interests by their refusal to convict Clinton in the Senate, thereby preventing the accession of V.P. Al Gore and causing the election of the second President Bush in 2000."
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It was a backlash because they pursued small stuff in lieu of the actual major crimes they all knew about but would not speak of publicly. Probably because some high-level Repubs might have gone down too.
It simply is not Satin's time yet.
Soon, but not yet.
First let’s be honest here and admit that President Clinton lied under oath.
He should have been removed from office.
So the Dems were too stupid to see which side of the bread had butter on it.
Next - Al Gore missed it by a whisker in 2000. If he had won Tennessee- his sort of home state- he would have won the election.
Finally, the Hand of God is in all of this (and everything that happens).
“We all know that the Republicans acted against their own interests when they impeached President Clinton in 1998, because this caused an electoral backlash against them in 1998. But what few realize is that the Democrats, too, at this time, acted against their own self-interests by their refusal to convict Clinton in the Senate, thereby preventing the accession of V.P. Al Gore and causing the election of the second President Bush in 2000.”
That is an assumption - that Gore ascending to the presidency of half of Clinton’s term, would have been followed by two elected terms for Gore - that (1) cannot be proven as inevitable and (2) cannot be proven as a even likely relsult.
Hind sight being 20 20, history shows us it made no difference if Clinton remained in office or was removed and replaced with Gore.
Here’s what happened: Clinton 8 yrs, Bush 8 yrs, obama 8 yrs (all leftist swamptsers)
If Clinton were removed, here’s what could have happened: Clinton removed early, Gore 12 years, McCain or Romney or obama 8 years. (all leftist swamptsers)
What’s in place now, Trump, is the exact opposite of anything we’ve had or been offered. It’s why the rats are in such a frenzy, he’s a real American and the country is prospering, getting respect again, and everything else good America stands for.
We actually needed all those swamptsters for America to realize we need a change.
It’s true. The defense of Clinton hurt them in the long run. Although W Bush was lousy, he was better than Gore or Kerry.
I remember predicting to ALL of my friends, that Clinton would resign in the second half of his second term. It was an absolute no-brainer option for the Dems: give algore a couple of years in the White House, BEFORE the 2000 election, and he would be very likely to stay there for 10 years. My mistake was assuming Clinton would do ANYTHING, for any reason other than naked self interest, no matter how much it might benefit his party (or his family, or his country)...
The comments at American Thinker to this article are interesting. There is a person claiming to be the author of the piece claiming that he is NOT a NeverTrumper...but then there is nothing from AmericanThinker itself identifying him as the author...just his claim to be such.
So, if the author of this piece is REALLY interested in making his case that he is NOT a NeverTrumper, then he’ll have it pulled, or at least add some type of an update to the piece, since he certainly comes across as a NeverTrumper.
...and if the piece doesn’t change, then he’s more likely a high school kid having some fun with us.
Fifteen Senators remain from that 100-0 secret vote to throw Clinton's impeachment: eight Republicans (Crapo, Enzi, Collins, Roberts, Inhofe, Shelby, McConnell, Grassley) and seven Democrats (Schumer, Reed, Durbin, Wyden, Murray, Feinstein, Leahy.) Then House Manager, now Senator, Lindsey Graham must also remember it, although he was locked out from it. If Schiff fails to self destruct enough to kill impeachment in the House McConnell needs to remember and re-use these precedents and we their voters need to remind them about them.
I classify this as a “what if” exercise.
I disagree with the author’s premise,but it might have worked.
Clinton had an insurance policy from the beginning of his presidency to ensure that his fellow Dems would never turn against him, 900 FBI files kept in the White House under his control.