Well if the jury never sees any evidence, we wouldn't get many convictions in court either.
Rather than anyone being impressed with 'President Gore' as a sitting president, he would have revealed himself to be the total idiot that we knew him to be. Bush's win would've been a landslide had Clinton been convicted. People would have been horrified, both at the evidence and at Gore's performance.
Always do the right thing and don't fear the outcome. Your fears can paralyze you into inaction.
I think that the pubbies should let the Dems push this impeachment stuff. Let them make asses of themselves. There are things -- lots of them -- that I am unhappy with Bush over, but the Dems don't have a case based on any of the nonsense shown here.
Perhaps you are right. And perhaps the American people would have been disgusted by the apparent inability of the Republicans to let go of a lost cause and the Democrats would have won a landslide in 2000.
The press was able to portray Clinton as presidential, I expect they would have been able to do the same with Gore. The realities in both cases did not matter.
Sometimes admitting you've lost the present battle allows you to start preparing to win the next one. Look at the Democrats now. They won't admit that the 2000 election was lost, and they are stuck trying to reverse that election even today. And they aren't getting anywhere.
The decisions were made and we live with the consequences. We will never know what might have been. But you seem to assume that the result would HAVE to be better than it is now, I recognize it might have been worse.