Reply #182: You're finding out that not every Dem voter idolized Big Dawg [View All]

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Has it occurred to anyone that if perhaps more Democrats had expressed this same outrage when the affair was made public, instead of defending to the nth degree, we wouldn't be in the position of having our values questioned?

As I recall those awful times, one after another of congressional Dems abandoned him to the inquisitors instead of demanding them to butt out. They certainly didn't defend him to the nth degree.

It is clear that Clinton should have kept his sexual impulses under more control. It is also clear that prior to this, the press had lived by a privacy code regarding presidential sexual dalliances. This was something new in American politics that was hatched by extremist GOP operatives. And as in so many unexpected attacks, Dems didn't know how to assess it clearly and rally a coordinated, effective response while it was happening, especially given that Clinton was insisting he didn't do anything. Hindsight serves us well, however.

As Big Dawg was reported to have said, I believe on Comedy Central, "If you want a saint for president, then go to Heaven and find one."


having our values questioned = having our values criticized

Are you so afraid of having our values "questioned"? Get real, Republicans are going to critize anything and everything Democratic. The best response is one that turns it right back on them so they feel it. Don't keep letting Republicans define the game and the rules.