Especially when you consider that they are out there running around like a headless chicken looking for a head, just like the one they perceive that they have lost.
Well, especially for someone who takes liberalism very seriously as their personal cause, you would think that they would desire a high quality of leadership in the person presented to represent liberalism for the whole country. It's hard to figure why such people would want, say, Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton to fill that role. It certainly would have been a disaster if someone like Bob Packwood had been a presidential figure for the Republicans.
So for people who defended Bill Clinton and supported him enthusiastically, you do have to ask what kind of people you are dealing with here. Have standards of personal morality, behavior, and decorum really sunk that low? Has modern counter-culture really jaded people that much? Why would people be so attracted to Bill Clinton that they would automatically go into denial as woman after woman came forward with tales of his alleged rapes, aggressive molestations, and threats?
You wouldn't think that they would be laughing and giggling if they were discussing a rape which didn't have anything to do with Clinton. So why the goofy responses when such accusations were directed at Clinton? It would seem like you have to conclude that there was something goofy and a little kooky about their cultish devotion to the creep. The nervous laughter may have something to do with the cultish psychology which bound them to such a leader. There was indeed something quite absurdly irrational about the zombified defenders of Bill Clinton. Clinton seemed to offer them a strange recipe of lewd, Dionysian rebellion and licentiousness combined with vague socialist grandiosity, an almost religious self-righteousness, and a paranoid Manichaean zeal for struggling against "the vast right-wing conspiracy." It was OK if Clinton had raped a few gals along the way since he was at heart trying to keep everyone safe from Rush Limbaugh. That's one strange brew.