Jim Webb

[MADem]

149. If you recall--and I think you're misremembering--Clinton's people did a very good job of pushing

back against those "allegations." There was enough doubt cast, and when HRC went on TV with the Tammy Wynette remark, that kind of ended it. All of the "Horndog Bill" stuff wasn't re-ignited until after he'd won his 2nd term with the Monica business. And the GOP were their own worst enemies, they went after him so often and so hard and so relentlessly about absolute utter bullshit that people said, even if the charge was true, "Well, that's just the wingnuts going after Bill--it's not true, they can't stop going after him" because so much of what they shopped was plainly outrageous lies.

But "Horndog Bill" isn't running for a third term, and "Horndog Bill" is still married to his first and only wife. "Horndog Bill" didn't quit.

One more time, since you are NOT (why, I've no idea) taking my point: this is not about MORALITY, even though that is the "hook" that draws some in.

It's about impulsivity, it's about making lousy decisions, it's about getting bored easily, dumping someone because it's easier than trying to work it out (that's rank DISLOYALTY in many peoples' minds), just like he dumped that SECNAV job after nine months and after he dumped that Senatorial re-election bid after six years in the Senate and getting "bored" with it all. The Presidency is eight long, tough, grinding, highs-and-lows years if you do it right--will he get "bored?"

And you don't have to frame this around HRC at all if you don't like. She has not yet declared, who knows, she may decide to not bother at all? There's still time for others to engage in exploratory campaigns, though the window is starting to come down. Look at this guy in his own framework--he's not a good candidate, unless easily distracted, NRA poster boys with Confederate sympathies and a sketchy record on the environment, equality and women are what you think America wants. I think REPUBLICAN America would be fine with him--Democratic America, not so much.

FWIW, Arnold didn't have a chance because he is not a natural born citizen. He is not eligible. He reached his terminal rank as Governator. He was revealed (though many knew it already) as a giant, cheating, lying bullshitter and everyone KNEW he was a bullshitter. He didn't even have the decency to pretend to be ashamed of his behavior or to establish a relationship with his child (or children, "some people say"--the gossip beat goes on). Bad husband, bad father. Instead, he wrote a kinky (failed) book where he boasted about other "conquests." The guy is just tone deaf.