It should have been the Democratic Watergate.
There will never be a Democratic "Watergate." Republicans have to realize once and for all that actions are not treated equally when committed or omitted by the two sides.
Consider: President Bush41 kept quiet during the Clinton years; President Clinton STILL inserts into every public appearance the slander that Bush stole the election - and there is no public response to this slur.
To continue to lie and foment resentment is evil. The Dems fight very dirty, and we have to accept that. Newt Gingrich was blind-sided when he attempted to act as Majority Leader, because no one had yet realized how the Dems would behave when they lost the majority.
Now we have had ten years experience with their perfidy. We have to fight smarter.
That's not because Republicans don't fight hard enough (although it's true they don't) but because Democrats have no rule of law and are totally shameless.
Bob Livingston resigned rather than judge Clinton when he knew of his own adultery. I could never imagine a Democrat taking that step unless he was up for election and the polls showed he couldn't win. But it's not the sin that shames them, rather the political expediency of not advancing their goal.
Any form of hypocrisy is perfectly allowable if you are a Democrat because the advancement of the ideology is more important than any type of personal consistency.
The Clinton impeachment taught us a lot about Democrats' true principles:
* It's okay to lie under oath if you don't like the charges.
* It's okay to lie under oath if you don't like who's prosecuting you.
* Defending oneself about lying under oath is "saving the Constitution".
* Sexual harassment is not relevant when the powerful "boss" happens to be a Democrat.
* Ideology trumps any type of misconduct up to and including murder (Condit).
* Ideology trumps any type of minority representation (Clarence Thomas and many others).
Any moral "high road" the liberals might have carried before (and it was quite strong in the wake of the racial and sexual re-order that began in the 1960s) was decimated by the Clinton gang. That capital was spent. No longer can the feminists claim the high road after defending Clinton. And the race baiters are close to being in the same boat after the scandals involving Jackson, Sharpton and Mel Reynolds among others. Suddenly the more-correct-than-thou crowd was out there supporting perjury. Then came 2000 and they were out there defending vote fraud.
That's not to imply that Republicans have clean hands in all of this but the oh-so-serious, oh-so-pious, oh-so-concerned Democrats had their act exposed by their own Elmer Gantry and I believe that is no small reason for why their party is in such disarray now.