Monica Lewinsky back in the news

It wasn't just one woman.

She wasn't alone. It was systematic. It went on for years. Women were smeared. False affidavits were regularly used.

And, let's not pretend this was done out of some sense of jealousy on Hillary's part. This was politics.

 

Make the hay, then.

I hope this is the GOP's strategy, because the election is going to be a Democratic victory parade starting in mid-September 2016.

 

You greatly underestimate the mainstream media's effect in telling the American people what "matters" and what doesn't.

 

Ted Bundy was a charming man with a lot of good traits, too, right? After all, it's not binary, right?

And you should write a letter telling Juanita Broaddrick she wasn't raped.

 

Maybe because the previous two Bushes were such failures?

 

I don't need to quote them all, but it's kind of worthless to post a shitload of outlets knowing that the ones that would ask the question won't get access and the ones that do get access won't ask the question. It appears you've made Yankee Fan's point quite nicely.

 

If this election is going to be about things that happened more than 15 years ago and the threat they represent to democracy, perhaps if Jeb is the candidate it would be time to take another hard look at Florida's role in the 2000 presidential election. First at the Palm Beach travesty, then the relative staffing levels of suburban and inner-city precincts, and finally the neat trick of barring African-Americans from voting based on "crimes" they "committed" in the future.

As the GOP has ramped up its strategy of disenfranchising those whose presence could swing an election unfavorably, Florida 2000 seems in retrospect like a proving ground for much of the current strategy. I eagerly await a full airing of this issue and Jeb's responses. Whether people get to exercise this most basic right seems, to me at least, a larger concern for the republic than an ancient hummer.

 

We're not allowed to talk about the past, remember?

The thing is, the GOP and Ken Starr kept throwing so much shit at the wall to try and nail him, and all they got was the Lewinsky thing. By the time they got to Monica, the American public couldn't take anything the GOP did seriously.

 

A rapist? Ususally you save that crap for minorities who aren't convicted.

 

Let's see: attacking several women for having sex with married men vs. creating and passing laws and policies that affect tens of millions of women.

 

He widened the scope beyond Hillary-friendly media members who were hand-picked.

 

Baron, you should at least acquaint yourself with the claims of Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick.