[Lokibob]

Been thinking about this the last few days.

If the Democrats had the moral backbone to ask Clinton to step down during his impeachment trial, and installed Gore, would that have swung the 2000 election to the Gore camp?

I feel that their air of moral superiority prevented them from doing that, locking the country into the swing to the right.

I also understand how much nerve it would take to ask a seated president to resign.

If Clinton had the least bit of respect for the office he held, he would have done it on his own. Not once have I heard that Clinton even discussed it.

Contrast that to the President Bush,who is a man of very high moral integrety and who knows the importance of the office he holds. I loved it today when he told the reporter to stand when addressing the President (he made a joke of it, but the meaning was there). The only times I see him out of business attire (suit coat and tie) is when he is in Crawford. I'm sure he changes to running clothes when exercising, but there is very little film of that. Contrast that to Clintons many pictures in open necked shirts, even greeting people in the oval office in a jogging suit.

[parsifal]

IMHO, the Dems blew it. When the GOP had a creep in office, enough of them had the moral integrity to let him know they would not support him. When the Dems had a bigger creep in office, hardly any of them had the integrity necessary to take care of business. And yes, I think if Clinton had been booted, Al Gore would have won in 2002. parsy.