Like you, I was raised to respect certain offices -- like the Mayor of my city, the Governor of my state, and the President of the United States. I can remember my parents telling me that a person stood when a Governor or the President entered a room, and that if you applauded a President with whom you disagreed, you were applauding the Office and not the man.
Had Bill Clinton been a President with whose policies I disagreed (and I did), that would have been one thing.
I still could have respected him. He had, after all, occupied the highest office in our land.
But he actively dishonored the office itself.
He had a young intern give him a blow job in the Oval Office while he was on the telephone discussing troop movements in Bosnia.
He lied to the American People. Worse than that, he attempted to use his powerful intellect to disceive us. He played word games and manipulated the language. I'm sure he thought it was great fun -- having sex in the Oval Office and then showing the rubes how clever he was.
No, Bill Clinton deserves not respect. He deserves unending scorn.
The scorn he deserves is reserved for those who tarnish something that deserves respect.
That, I would guess, is why so many of us conservatives keep the issue of the Clintons alive. It is not simply that we disagrre with their polcies. It is that they actively dishonored something very special to all of us -- The Presidency of the United States.
We won't forget it.
And worse still...he tried to paint anyone who didn't believe his lies as evil and hateful