Absolutely. Slick makes Nixon look like a choir boy. He is, without a doubt, the most unethical, immoral, corrupt, sleazeball to ever occupy the White House... and the looney left cheered this slimeball rather than dumping him.
With his personal approval numbers in the 20s, Slick's high job approval numbers are totally a reflection of the high-flying economy (at least it was up until the last 3 months) and there is no way a sitting VP should even have to work hard to win election with the kind of economy we've had the last 5 years. Without the slime factor from ole' Slick, Gore would have won; and as the President running for re-election, it wouldn't have been close. Gore would have won by double digits.
There is no president in history that has cost his party as much as Slick has cost the Dems these past 6 years. When Slick took office in 1993, the Dems held the Senate by a 58-42 margin, the House by 35 seats, they held 30 governorships, and control of a large majority of State Legislatures. After 6 years of this supposedly great politician so beloved by his Party, that Party has lost the Senate, the House, they have only 19 governors, the Republicans now control more State Legislatures than the Dems and a majority of individual Houses in the States, hundreds of Democrats at all levels of politics have switched their party affiliation to Republican or independent (mostly Republican), and now he has cost them the White House. I hope ole' Slick stays on the scene for many years so the voters won't forget him or the Dems that supported him. Never in the history of politics has one man so single-handidly destroyed his Party.
His political success has been limited to himself (as was Nixon's) and was due to Easy Al at the Fed flooding the economy with liquidity and easy money plus Slick's admittedly great political instincts in co-opting a lot of the Republican agenda favored by most of the electorate, such as welfare reform (even though he vetoed it twice before Dick Morris told him to sign it or face a re-election loss in 1996) and free trade. He has repeatedly trashed his Party's leftists with this agenda, yet he remains a beloved icon of those same lefties. You'll hear these same gasbags bellowing if he's indicted by Robert Ray, the Independent Counsel.
I predict you'll see the same long-term process with Hillary in the Senate... with the same results. Oh, how I would love to see her run for President in 2004. It would be a beautiful thing to watch. |
