I have a theory about Ken Starr....
He was given a job, to find dirt on Clinton over Whitewater, an illegal scheme to sell land and convert those sales to campaign contributions, let the land sales falter, and an S&L pick up the bad loans...
In other words, money came in... and the S&L took the hit with federally insured funds. Clinton won, Rose Law Firm won, McDougal won, and the taxpayers lost.
Starr took that case and despite missing records showing up in Hillary's office and other assorted things that should have kept his attention tight, he gets into a "perjury in a sexual harassment case".
Now sexual infidelity to Bill Clinton was like the Briar Patch was to Brer Rabbit... "Please don't throw me in that briar patch!!" he would scream as the attention was diverted from his REAL crimes into an area that the Clintons knew would never draw blood. Even after being caught lying under oath and persuading others to give false testimony, Clinton served out his presidency and his wife is looking at getting the job.
Had Whitewater been proven (which is should have it Jim McDougal had not died in solitary confinement with his heart medicine out of reach and no guard to hand it to him), BOTH Clintons would have been done.
Starr helped both of them.
Don't know if Starr was part of the plan but I agree with you on Clinton. He used Monicagate like a rodeo clown.
I think you're right.
Starr was never the right wing idealogue the media portrayed him to be. He was never more than a company man working in a company town.
I think that title has to go to Bush I. Bill Clinton has something on that guy that has kept him pinned in absolute uselessness since the campaign of '92.
Bushpa, as former head of the CIA and a working VP under Reagan, certainly knew all there is to know about Clinton, Mena, Lasiter, Cocaine, Whitewater, Foster, etc. Yet, during the ill-fated campaign of '92, he steadfastly refused to use what he knew, including Arkansas Court Records, to attack Bill. He threw that race.
We all know 'Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows,' but Bushpa is definitely pushing the envelope with his new-found friend and sidekick, BJ Clinton. Anatomically speaking, 'sidekick,' is not the right word, because despite all the nice talk from feckless Bushpa, BJ constantly kicks him, AND GW, from behind.
Will we ever know what the Hell is with this?