[L.N. Smithee]

Are you trying to argue that Henry Hyde did not have an adulterous affair, and that Baldwin was not talking about Hyde's hyprocrisy in the Clinton/Lewinsky affair?

I am not "trying to argue." I am giving you the facts. YOU are "trying to argue"!

As Judge Judy would say, close your mouth for a second and try to receive:

• Baldwin NEVER addressed Hyde's previous infidelity in his spaz attack!
• Baldwin only referred to Henry Hyde in his capacity as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and leader of the Republicans who voted for Clinton's impeachment!
• Clinton's adultery had nothing to do with his impeachment! It was the fact that he committed perjury in a civil suit and then tried to use his power as President to conceal it!
• People who think that Clinton was impeached solely because he had an affair are gullible, ignorant, or just plain stupid!

[ChadGore]

Re: "People who think that Clinton was impeached solely because he had an affair are . . yadda yadda blah yadda blah"

What Clinton did in our house was indefensible on every level, but there's a lesson in history.

When Nixon (a President who's party was the GOP) was also caught doing things that were indefensible not long ago. There was one man, the head of the GOP at the time, who informed Nixon that the rest of the GOP was not going to defend the indefensible, and he could not count on their support (That man, by the way, was none other than George Bush Senior). Thankfully Nixon stepped down and never did put the country through the painfull process for his own ambitions to power.

Defending the indefensible was not anything for any respectable Conservative to do.

When Clinton was caught doing things that were indefensible the DNC leadership not only decided to defend the indefensible, but took of on a year long tyrate in the media, in the courts, and in the homes of every American man, woman and child in a crusade to convince people that their party stood for the very worst as long as they wielded power. (That mans name ? Terry Macauluf(sp?)

THIS is the fundemental lesson of impeachment.

Both parties will have Presidents that perform indefensible acts in the future, but it's how that party reacts that is crucial. Todays DNC has failed to realise this and it's one of the many the reasons the good people of this great country delivered the GOP a tri-fecta in 2000 and 2002, and aalso the reason that that the DNC will not advance untill the last Clinton cronie has been purged.