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

To: Rick Slemmer who wrote (8055)	10/8/1998 3:26:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Gore Struggles to Defend Clinton A Page from Jerry Ford By Hal Bruno ABCNEWS.com W A S H I N G T O N, Oct. 8 — Vice President Gore is all over the country these days, trying to help Democratic candidates in the midterm election, and bolstering support for his battered president among nervous party leaders. Everywhere he lands, Gore has to concede that Clinton's conduct was “indefensible,” but he argues there is “no basis for impeachment.” He accuses Republicans of trying to “undo the results of the 1996 election.” Gore declares that it's time to concentrate on “the people's business” instead of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. To those of us who covered Watergate, it has a familiar ring. Twenty-four years ago, Vice President Ford hit the road to do the same thing for Richard Nixon, arguing that there was “no impeachable offense” and charging that Democrats were trying to “undo the 1972 election.” He insisted that it was time to “get away from Watergate.” As events turned out, Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment and President Ford granted him a pardon. It turned the 1974 midterm election into a GOP disaster as voters punished Republicans for Nixon's sins. They lost 43 seats in the House, 5 in the Senate and took a terrible beating in state and local races. That's exactly what Al Gore is trying to avoid on his cross-country rescue mission. Bill Clinton may not have learned anything from Nixon's horrible example, but Gore seems to have borrowed a page from Jerry Ford. Hal Bruno is a political analyst for ABCNEWS, whose storied career at the network has encompassed Watergate and dozens of national elections. abcnews.com