The Clintons’ Lack of Class

Sweating Through Fog reminds us of something that people who are a bit nostalgic for the 90s may have forgotten:

Some polls have Hillary third in Iowa. Apparently even Democrats are seeing her for what she is – a liar without her husband’s ability to pull it off.

The Clintons were insufferable in power, and now we’ll get to see how gracefully they handle defeat. It won’t be an inspiring sight. Their shamelessness reached an earlier peak on the day of Bill’s impeachment, when he pulled all of the House Democrats onto the White House lawn for a “rally” – as if impeachment for the crime of perjury was just some primary setback. This quality – their repellent shamelessness – was all that kept them in power. Richard Nixon had a sense of honor, but Bill Clinton never did. His wife’s willingness to stand by him was a sure sign that nothing matters to her more than power.

I’ve always had this theory about the two of them. They wouldn’t have gone willingly. If another one of Bill’s bimbos had come forward during the impeachment hearings and testified as to what sort of man he was, the truth may have been so blunt, so undeniable, that it may have have turned a dozen or so reluctant Democratic senators. He might have been convicted by the Senate, just so they could be done with him.

Even then, the Clintons wouldn’t have left the White House. Having said that the House impeachment was just politics, they would have said the same thing about the Senate conviction. They would have eagerly forced a constitutional crisis. A sitting president refusing to leave office on conviction by what they would have called a “partisan Senate.” The only way they would have left the White House was if the army went in and dragged Bill and Hillary out in handcuffs.

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