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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?

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To: PiMac who wrote (12511)5/19/1999 9:50:00 AM
From: PiMac  Read Replies (1) of 13994
 
All: BC can not be impeached; a synopsis of my 3 part post.
Impeachment/Removal is a political process. Barring murder, and barring a power play, the IR depends on the voters of the country to support the impeachment process or to support the Pres. To emphasize, IR does not depend on the President or his Congressional opponents. It depends on enough supporters to change their "vote". Looking at the voters we get: 30% will vote for any issue and any candidate, and 30% will vote against. Witness Goldwater and McGovern. These I call the motley crew [beneficiaries] and the usual suspects [political interests]. That leaves 40% who are "mainstream".

Bill has achieved his 20% of mainstream by enlisting the support of what I call the caregivers. The most obvious examples of CG is mothers and teachers. Most of the medical profession, and service industries, all the industry of the soft sciences - government, sociology and psychology. Many religious workers. Add some support from the CG allies, the care receivers and the semi-caregivers. [example: husbands]. These are the voters who Tend to vote for BC. Every demographic analysis I've seen with a division that separates CG & non-CG, has the BC side together with the CG side. Women, for example, are heavily BC. Blacks are overwhelmingly BC. Discount the black motley crew and there is little in that culture that isn't CG. A black church, for example, that doesn't save bodies and souls, isn't a black place of worship. It goes without saying that CG's have other concerns, so simply BC = CG, is untrue. But the more desperate the CG, the more committed to BC.

The characteristic of CG that makes IR impossible is commitment.

Once given, it is more than rare to be taken back. Imagine a mother saying, the Terrible Twos are here, and I quit. Commitment is not to be confused with blind Loyalty. The worst bad mouthing one receives will be at the hands of relatives and teachers, to your face, in public, too. Criticism of Shortcomings has nothing to do with Commitment. Imagine a teacher saying, that's all right, Capitalization isn't important, you're still my student. But no misbehaviour by the cared for justifies the CG leaving. Even spousal abuse is not always grounds to unCommit.

All the issues you critics of BC bring to us, his supporters, make no difference to the one thing that matters to you--Removal. Philosophic truth, religious morals, legal rules, personal misbehavior, we can hear but it doesn't matter. It is information on How to deal with the man, not Whether.

BC's opponents have a CG deficit in their group outlook. You keep offering irrelevant arguments, keep condemning our charge - which makes us more determined, and keep ignoring our plight, offering no alternative to the bad boy. Your words are static, your actions impotent, you might as well stop harping and do something about our problem.
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