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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scrapps who wrote (5986)	9/16/1998 2:44:00 PM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Scrapps: I don't think you're reading the electorate right--especially the Clinton base. I think there is a definite disappointment in Clinton and some sense that he let his private life interfere with his policy goals. But you're simply wrong that Dems are going to increase the drumbeat for the President's resignation. The Report was not as damaging as anticipated, and it is the Republicans who are now wondering how to get out of this. Clinton has weathered the worst part of this storm, pretty much intact. The reason for this is that the idea that the POTUS has been treated unfairly really resonates with Democrats. Clinton was the first Democratic President in a generation, and Republicans were so spiteful, they refused to argue policy on the merits and instead launched an unprecedented attempt to out the President's personal foibles. I was speaking to a black cab driver the other day, and he was saying that he really hated "Kent" Starr and he thought it was a waste of 40 million dollars to investigate the President's sex life. He said the only thing that would convince him that the POTUS should be impeached is if it was shown that he had actually had a hand in killing Ron Brown. That brief conversation told me that the President's message is working a lot better among the Democratic base than I thought. It tells me that for those who are not watching these events carefully, who are not on the internet debating these issues, and who have not read the Starr report, Clinton's message ($40 million, it's all about sex, Starr is unfair) is dominating the public discourse. That explains why the public seems so much more generous and forgiving in the face of the daily negative spin in newscasts and talk shows. The "elites" are up in arms, both Dems and Repubs, but the President is still controlling the base. And that's what counts. Doughboy.