The only ones inducing any apathy on my part are those in the administration (including Bush and Ashcroft) who are simply ignoring the many serious crimes committed by the last administration and its party members the last 9 years. I ask you ... just how "conservative" does a republican have to be in order to believe in upholding the laws where election tampering (the Riady non-refund), privacy violations (Filegate) and murder (Ron Brown and possibly Vince Foster) are concerned? Are there ANY more important laws than those that protect the sanctity of our election process, those that protect individual privacy and those that protect people from being murdered for political gain? What are we fighting the war on terrorism for if not to protect those laws? I ask you ... why isn't Ashcroft even INVESTIGATING those crimes? NO EXCUSES.
It is a plain old dumb political strategy. The Dems would bash conservatives with the "that's-all-they-have-is-to-attack-Bill-Clinton" club, and we'd get sucked into a debate over the last ten years rather than the next ten. Whatever the Clinton crimes were---and I think there were a lot---every single special prosecutor who has looked at the evidence has agreed that there just isn't enough to "hang" the guy or Hillary.
There is a time to let things go. In the 1880s, the Northern politicians finally quit "waving the bloody shirt," because there were more important things than reviving the Civil War---did you know that Cleveland even advocated pensions for SOUTHERN veterans? Imagine the hue and cry from the northerners!!! But the point is, you can't fight past wars and hope to win future elections. If you "be a chooser" to do that, do so without me. Cause it isn't going to convince a single voter out there, and will only make you look like a kook.