IF LOTT HADN'T CAVED, WHAT WOULD JUANITA HAVE SAID ON NATIONAL TELEVISION?

dfu | 12-2002 | dfu

[Tall_Texan]

Shouldn't your screen name be "ChinaGotTheGoodsFROMClinton"?

[okie01]

"That's a lot of "if's" to put the name "coward" on!"

Let's try it this way then: What was the right thing to do? What did the Constitution specifically call for? And what did Lott do?

Expedience is a first cousin to cowardice. And, if my life experience is any guide, expedience almost never works in the long run.

[okie01]

"Can you imagine the impact of at least one Clinton rape victim crying and speaking to America on national television?"

I can tell you this. After Juanita's interview with Lisa Myers ran on NBC, my sister and my mother both changed their registration from Democrat to Independent (they would never be Republicans).

They believed Juanita. And my social worker sister, who is a card carrying bleeding heart liberal, felt totally betrayed by a man she had strongly supported.

My mother, a depression era New Deal Democrat, and less driven by idealism, voiced nothing but contempt for "that low-life SOB".

[Mr. K]

I always wonder why Clinton sent so many affidavits around to women to state he did not rape them...

[doug from upland]

Not enough people watched the interview. It was held back by NBC until after the vote and it was scheduled opposite an awards ceremony (I can't remember which one). The reaction you saw would have been repeated in millions of households. America should have had the opportunity to see all the evidence.