Of course it’s relevant. Democrats who say that the voters won’t be interested in it are just expressing a desperate hope. They got away with that “it’s old news” nonsense in the nineties, but it’s not the nineties any more. Hillary enabled Bill’s sexual predation and corruption and participated in it, including targeting inconvenient women who were his victims. Speaking of which, three cheers for Kathleen Willey for not letting the Clintons’ thugs intimidate her.
Hillary should, finally, be held accountable, even if all that means is that she doesn’t get to rule over us.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Byron York has it right:
Of course Clinton’s recent experiences are relevant to a presidential run. But so are her actions in the 90s, the 80s and even the 70s. It’s not ancient history; it reveals something about who Clinton was and still is. And re-examining her past is entirely consistent with practices in recent campaigns.
In the 2012 presidential race, for example, many in the press were very interested in business deals Mitt Romney made in the 1980s. In the 2004 race, many journalists were even more interested in what George W. Bush did with the Texas Air National Guard in 1968, as well as what John Kerry did in Vietnam that same year. And in 2000, a lot of journalists invested a lot of time trying to find proof that Bush had used cocaine three decades earlier.
So by the standards set in coverage of other candidates, Clinton’s past is not too far past.
That’s especially true because there will be millions of young voters in 2016 who know little about the Clinton White House. Americans who had not even been born when Bill Clinton first took the oath of office in 1993 will be eligible to vote two years from now. They need to know that Hillary Clinton has been more than Secretary of State.
Yes. There is a new generation that needs to learn just what kind of people these people are.
[Another update]
More from Wes Pruden:
The “bimbo eruptions” that Bill and Hillary thought were well behind them are coming back with a vengeance, and it’s only 2014. Bimbos have been a menace to ambitious men since Eve treated Adam to his first apple tart, Delilah gave Samson his first haircut, and Anthony Weiner tweeted his first crotch shot to the bimbos of the cyberworld.
The invention of politics raised the ante. The cultivation of the libido at taxpayer expense, together with the explosion of media, makes official indiscretion unsustainable.
The fact that Bubba’s bimbos were leftovers from an earlier century means that the recollection of them won’t be old news to the millions of voters who grew up after the Clintons left the White House. Fourteen years and two presidents later, a lot has been swallowed by the memory hole.
Bubba’s bimbos and Hillary’s enabling and manipulation of scandal will be new and titillating stuff. Sex sells, even the creepy sex attributed to old fogies over 30. The modern American culture is built on the cultivation of sexual titillation.
Yup.
And Monica was the least of Bill’s predatory conquests, because unlike Juanita Broaddrick, whom he forcibly raped, Paula Jones, whom he had delivered to his hotel room by an armed police officer, and Kathleen Willey, whom he assaulted in the White House after she came seeking a job, she threw herself at him.
Nurse Ratched’s immortal “We’re going to take things away from you for your own good”–not to mention her “We’ve got to stop thinking of the individual and start thinking of the common good”–are blasts from the past; but you can be sure the Hive-dominated media will try to keep people from bringing up those revealing gems of “wisdom.” Look at future King Barry’s “Wealth is better when you spread it around.” (And by “you” he meant “I.”) He had barely voiced that sentiment to Joe the Plumber when the Hive told us “Nothing to see here, forget all about it.” You would think when the Dems nominated collectivists who share the Hive’s statism, they would be triumphantly ballyhooing it instead of trying to concealing it. But he Hive has been into concealment ever since they decided “liberalism” made a more marketable brand-name than “socialism,” and the honorable word “liberal” was corrupted into a euphemism for “tax-happy coercion-addicted State-fellator.”
Apparently the “one free grope” rule is per-person, and of undefined duration and specificity.
Some people might find the behavior of a sexual predator like Bill Clinton and his enabler Hillary to be revolting but some groups will see no problems at all. You know the teacher’s unions will have no problems…
I recall Neal Boortz branding Hillary as “evil.” Don’t know his reasons, but I know why I agree with the assessment – the frivolous criminal charges against Billy Dale. It’s one thing to sack a department to fill it with cronies. It’s another to file a frivolous criminal suit against its chief.
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