Dan,
Ironically, I found Mr. Ellis's column a bit on the whiny side. More of the canonical "You're stupid, and we're not",
What really bothers me about Mr Ellis's viewpoint and that of many other pro-impeachment supporters is not "You're stupid and we're not", but "We're moral and ethical and you're not". That really pisses me off. If ANY of the myriad of other serious, non sex related charges leveled against Clinton were the subject of the impeachment articles, and proven, then he should and would be thrown out of office.
Again, I don't like Clinton, I never voted for him, I don't like a lot of his policies, and I think he's a liar and a hypocrite (a condition common among politicians of all stripes, IMO). At the risk of beating a dead horse over and over, this entire impeachment fiasco is about sex, extra-marital sex, lying about sex, definitions of sex, et cetera, and so on, ad nauseum. Period.
The roughly 60 odd plus % of voters who want this farce over with now, know this. The majority of Americans view the RR as being obsessed with and hung up about sex. Reverend Pilch's rather extreme viewpoint of anyone who disagrees with his idea of morality as a being a "filthy whore" is indeed a microcosm of the true fundamentalist viewpoint.
I'm sure that a lot of swing voters, independents and moderates, resent the implication that they are less than moral and ethical because they happen to disagree with the sanctimonious prudes who are conducting this impeachment charade. Dipy is right, the GOP is going to be punished in the next election.
Regards, JB |
