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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (28258)	8/7/2000 11:00:30 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

newsmax.com Sunday August 6, 2000; 3:10 PM EDT Clinton Impeachment Clouds Gore's Presidential Bid At their Philadelphia get-together, Republicans deliberately downplayed President Clinton's impeachment, going so far as to deny House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde, who oversaw the historic probe, a convention speaking role. The impeachment taboo lasted right through the convention's final night, when nominee George W. Bush announced in his acceptance speech that he had "no stake" in the political squabbles of the recent past - a clear reference to the Clinton scandal wars of the previous seven years. Yet speaker after speaker punctuated their remarks to the First Union Center crowd with allusions to "restoring the honor and dignity of the presidency." Even shy and retiring prospective first lady Laura Bush couldn't resist tapping into the Clinton scandal vein, with a reference to supporters who regularly tell her husband that they're "counting on him to give them a presidency their children can look up to again." Pundit Morton Kondracke warned Sunday that playing the Clinton scandal card may backfire on the GOP. "It can be overdone," he told "Fox News Sunday's" Tony Snow. "If they start to make impeachment the issue and try to defend themselves, I mean, try to remind us all of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, I think they do lose. Because I think the country was against impeachment." "It isn't now, though," retorted Brit Hume, in a reference to polls taken a year after the Senate acquitted Clinton that show Americans are having second thoughts. In fact, a NewsMax.com/Zogby International poll taken in December showed that two-thirds of Americans surveyed actually wanted Congress to consider a new impeachment probe into allegations that Clinton traded national security secrets to the Chinese in exchange for campaign cash. The same month a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found that 50 percent of Americans approved of the GOP's efforts to impeach Clinton over Sexgate. From his perch on ABC's "This Week" former Clinton spinmeister George Stephanopoulos seemed to acknowledge that impeachment and the Clinton scandals in general could doom Gore's candidacy, invoking this bit of curious advice for his former boss. "One smart Democrat said to me, Clinton's going to have to have the most generous moment of his political career. No big apologies, but at some point he's got to get up and say something like this: 'Al Gore's been a full partner in all the progress we've made. But it's not fair to punish him for my personal mistakes.'" "Oh, I don't think he's going to do that," responded co-host Cokie Roberts. Undoubtedly she's right.