Posted on 02/17/2014 8:34:52 AM PST by kristinn
Bill Clinton uses a car-racing metaphor to explain the difference between rash and calm decision-making in politics. The great drivers, when the cars get close, the turns get hairy, they calm down, and they see everything, and they act, he says. The ones who are fearful and can't concentrate and can't calm down, run into the wall.
Republican leaders should pay attention, because on the issue of whether Clintons sex life is relevant 14 years after he left office, theyre once again careening toward a wall.
Sen. Rand Paul dredged up Clintons affair with Monica Lewinsky and his subsequent impeachment, telling an interviewer last month that Democrats dont have the moral high ground on womens issues because the former presidents predatory behavior toward the White House intern.
One of the workplace laws and rules that I think are good is that bosses shouldnt prey on young interns in their office. And I think the media seems to have given President Clinton a pass on this, the Kentucky Republican said on NBCs Meet the Press.
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Ill add one more reason. Focusing voters on the past may be a subtle way to argue that Hillary Clinton is not about the future.
Heres the problem: While Clinton bashing may be a good pre-primary tactic, its a lousy politics for the Republican Party in general. We know that because Clinton registered the highest approval ratings of his presidency during the period between the January 1998 exposure of his affair and February 1999, when the Senate voted to acquit him.
In July 2012, Clintons approval rating registered at 66 percent, higher than any time since he left office. Two-thirds of women gave him high marks, as did 44 percent of Republicans.
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It's a great start, but it needs to be wrapped around the necks of all of the democrats using the meme of "Hillary, Mayor Filner, Anthony Weiner" as being the true example of the true war on women. It's the democrats, stupid. Harassment, it's who they are.
If Hillary will tolerate adultery from her husband, what other evil acts will she tolerate?!
Probably. Considering the condition of our country in so many areas, many existential in nature, the focus on a subject already beat to death seems insignificant.
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