What's the matter with this guy? He was on the side of the angels during the impeachment.
My personal opinion is FBI files. The guy has queerbait written all over him.
Leaving aside certain unsavory rumors about his personal life, I believe it's simply the lawyer in him (he's an Army Reserve JAG officer) combined with raw political ambition. As a lawyer, cutting deals is more important than standing for principles, and he desperately wants to be a national-level "player".
Re: the Clinton impeachment, if you go back and examine his statements throughout that process, you'll find that his initially strong and principled statements quickly degenerated into muddled, equivocal, legalist gibberish.
"He was on the side of the angels during the impeachment".
Actually, while Lindsay was good for the most part, he voted against one of the articles on a terrible technicality -- the one that charged Clinton with committing purjury, because the judge in the Paula Jones affair didn't step forward before the Impeachment process and acknowledge Clinton's lying, but saved that (and Paula's big judgment) for AFTER impeachment. Lindsay said "you can't conclude that Clinton committed purjury unless the judge makes that ruling." It was like Lindsay was from another planet (Clinton had obviously lied in his denials of any involvement with Monica along with all the other lies).