[Scott from the Left Coast]

It'd be a very difficult case to make that Bill Clinton wasn't representing the desires and beliefs of those who elected him to office. They voted for him a second time, after all. A triangulation here and there, a fudge of a promise here and there, the play of words, does not mean that someone isn't meeting the voters where they live.

We conservatives DO get the shaft by people we think we elect. But that's because we are a sizable sector of the voting population, but not anywhere near a majority. The majority is found elsewhere (mostly in the squishy middle). We get the shaft because politicians must, in order to stay in office, appeal to people who do not think like we do.

[TheCrusader]

"It'd be a very difficult case to make that Bill Clinton wasn't representing the desires and beliefs of those who elected him to office."

On the face this hard to refute, it makes sense. But a deeper look under the surface reveals some interesting facets of the Clinton era and those who voted to keep him in office.

(1). WOMEN VOTERS: They liked his looks, his phoney charm and his legendary zipper.

(2). THE ECONOMY: Clinton had the luck of a leprachaun going for him on this one. He inhereted a growing economy and rode it for all it was worth. Even though he had no economic plan of his own in place, people assigned their percieved 'wealth' to this charleton.

(3). CON MAN/ LIAR = The best con man of the 20th Century. I think you'd agree with me that Bubba was the greatest con man and biggest liar of the 20th Century. And don't forget, he had the entire liberal media behind him all the way, spinning fantasic stories of his great "genius" and Rhodes Scholar status, yadda yadda yadda, ad nauseum.