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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: jlallen who wrote (5488)9/26/1998 12:50:00 PM
From: dougjn  Read Replies (3) of 67261
 
Sorry to disappoint you jlallen. But I voted for Reagan the first time. And for Bush the first time. How left wing is that???? It rather is you that is extreme. Extremely right wing.

I'll tell you another reason, and another way that people will care about Tripp's motivation, and who may have been behind her. Especially when it starts to tie together with who was behind the Paula Jones lawsuit, as a force to the edges of perjury vehicle.

You see the public in overwhelming numbers think this Clinton's sex lies are embarrassing, but not really such a huge deal. Which is deeply distressing to right wingers and Repubs. in general who say, and have half convinced themselves that this involves a cancer of lying so severe that it threatens our national respect for the rule of law.

The publics reaction to that tends to be, naaaah, get a grip. It's sex lying. But still to think that's Clinton's extreme slipperyness is about as distasteful as the adultery.

Now, here come the Tripp tapes. The more it looks like Clinton was really and truly set up, soup to nuts, and that actors like Tripp were willing to go so far as to try to create the White House adultery if it couldn't be found, the more the yuuuuchkkk factor turns against the overwrought Republicans. And the more the President seems justified in a bit of sex lying.

That's who cares.

Doug
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