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The willingness of the Democrats to accept and excuse a serial sexual predator, who violated his oath of office in an attempt to destroy a young woman’s life, was the last straw for me in the 90s.
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“The willingness of the Democrats to accept and excuse a serial sexual predator, who violated his oath of office in an attempt to destroy a young woman’s life, was the last straw for me in the 90s.”
Democrats have exhibited a willingness to accept, excuse, and repeatedly vote for, liars (Liawatha), charlatans (Gore) crooks (Toricelli), sexual predators, and the list goes on and on and on. They close their eyes to acts that violate the very precepts they scream about. And for some reason that astonishing conflict doesn’t make their heads explode.
We see it every day in the news and in this blog.
Democrats and liberals and socialists are nothing if not consistent:
All they care about is how the person will vote. Nothing else matters…not virtue, not honesty, not legality…only how they vote.
Every time this subject comes up among Clinton sympathizers I ask the simple question: “What would have happened to Monica Lewinsky, had she not kept the dress? Or even if she had it dry cleaned?” I either get crickets in response or some form of the wildest fiction I’ve ever known. Legal due processes and liability never seem to be their strong suit.
Of fictions, my favorite is that it would all have been partisan Ken Starr’s fault. Were she to have been jailed. Uh no. Who authorized Ken Starr to investigate the Lewinsky matter in the first space? And that without that authorization no investigation would have occurred, nor any perjury before a grand jury, depending upon, of course, what your definition of “is” is… Anyone? Anyone think that would have *ever* been allowed to happen in the O’s administration?
For more background also see this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/monica_lewinsky_the_price_of_shame?language=en
I’d love to hear her frank opinion of her former boss…
and to be fair… and…
To be honest I think even less of her “friend” Ms. Tripp for her hard work in exposing a young and foolish woman like that to the public ringer. I’m sure we don’t know the whole story there either. But Ms. Tripp and her ilk are what I’ve come to expect of the people who populate the DC, and prefer to work under the cover of buildings made from stones, must remind them of their natural habitat… But that’s just MHO… But of all the folks to blame, Ken Starr is far, far, from that list…
There are so many people to blame but only one man was responsible.
Monica has been going around claiming status as the first victim of internet bullying. She blames the Drudge Report and the vast right wing conspiracy machine but never the guy who used her as a sack of meat to stick his penis in or his cronies that used a Democrat controlled media to tear her down.
I feel zero sympathy for Monica, who still clearly lives in a fantasy world.
Young women do foolish things they later regret. I never said Monica was “innocent”. That she became a victim of the media machine I don’t think can be argued either. No one would want to have those kind of details about mistakes made in their private life put into the public spotlight. But no to be clear I don’t have a lot of sympathy for her. Even at age 23 at some point one has to take responsibility for ones actions and think through the consequences and their circumstances therein. I think it is clear she was in way over her head and too immature at the time to be in the position she was in. At the end of the day though I agree, there was only one man responsible, no that’s the wrong word, I meant unaccountable.
To be honest I think even less of her “friend” Ms. Tripp for her hard work in exposing a young and foolish woman like that to the public ringer.
Are you unaware that Tripp’s “friend” Lewinski was passing on physical threats to her family in order to suborn perjury from her?
Yes I was, but if the source of the allegation was only Ms. Tripp, I’d need a better cite. To suborn purgury is as illegal as the act itself. Ken Starr was a very capable prosecutor. No?
The source of the allegation was Monica’s own words, on tape. And no, Ken Starr was not in any way an “able prosecutor.” He may have been an able judge, but he had zero prosecutorial experience at the time he was appointed, and it showed. As a prosecutor, he showed himself to be profoundly incompetent, in both the Vince Foster and the Whitewater cases.
Anyone think Bill (the Clinton) would have issued an executive pardon to Ms. Lewinsky at the end of his term had she gone to prison for perjury? Anyone?