Politicians are horndogs, always have been, always will be.
Frankly, Bill Clinton’s sexual proclivities never bothered me all that much, there were many other things that did that I didn’t like. I joked about them more than anything.
Rape accusations aside - I didn’t care either. My problem was him doing an intern which (as all feminists were screaming until just before that point) is sexual harassment regardless of consent.
I wanted - and still want - Clinton held to the same rules the progressives impose on everyone else. But they’ve not only doubled down they’ve expanded their hypocrisy to all walks of life.
[Verse 1]
Hey now, baby
Get into my big black car
Hey now, baby
Get into my big black car
I want to just show you
What my politics are
[Verse 2]
I'm a political man
And I practice what I preach
I'm a political man
And I practice what I preach
So don't deny me, baby
Not while you're in my reach
[Verse 3]
I support the left
Though I'm leaning, leaning to the right
I support the left
Though I'm leaning to the right
But I'm just not there
When it's coming to a fight
The problem is: What if, instead of sending her recorded Lewinsky conversations to Ken Starr, Linda Tripp had instead secretly offered them for sale, say, to the Chinese government? Or to the Russians? Or even to agents of Saddam?
What kind of blackmail leverage would those tapes have provided to a foreign government in dealing with America on sensitive trade, security or military issues? One of the few things Clinton ever said that I believe is that he would have done anything to keep the Lewinsky affair secret. Given his demonstrated track record of selling out American interests for personal or political gain (and there are more examples that I could have cited here), how far would he have gone in compromising America's real interests in order to protect his own neck when threatened with blackmail?
Pretty far, I believe. Equally distressing is the prospect Clinton might, in fact, have succumbed to foreign black mail on other occasions in order to hide different sexual episodes that ultimately did not become public.
There is no way to know, of course, but I prefer presidents for whom such a scenario is not a plausible possibility.