Had Bill Clinton Kept It In His Pants, Hillary Would Be The Nominee

Before Barack Obama and the Drive-By media stopped Hillary’s inevitable juggernaut to the presidency, most thought that the biggest impediment to Hillary’s ascendance to the position would not be the pardons, the policies, or the peevish demeanor. After Hillary sewed up the nomination, it was believed, her biggest problem facing the Republicans was the baggage from her husband and his questionable morals and uncontrollable urges. After all, that kept Al Gore out of the White House in an election where he should have cruised to victory.

The legacy of Bill Clinton’s presidency is dubious at best. He presided over a strong peacetime economy, yes, though his contribution to that was little. He also signed welfare reform into law, which is to his credit even though it was the Republicans who put pressure on him to do so. Clinton could easily have played the compassion card, painted the bill as racist and the media surely would have run with that.

Bill Clinton also passed what is still today the largest tax hike in the nation’s history. It was the immediate tax hike by a brand new president whose popularity was shaky to begin with—he won the presidency with 43% of the vote as 15% of a nation disgusted with George H.W. Bush went for Ross Perot—that put him in a poor political position early in his presidency. The tax hike angered voters who had believed his oft-repeated promise of a middle-class tax cut, and two years later the Republicans owned Congress.

With the benefit of hindsight, it’s clear that Clinton also did not take terrorism seriously, repeatedly passing up on taking out Osama bin Laden. It’s not known whether that would have prevented 9/11, but it is known that attacks escalated throughout his presidency, up to the USS Cole in 2000, and his lack of a response emboldened the nation’s enemies.

Regardless, at the time the media was in the tank for Clinton, and so his presidency was repeatedly hailed as a triumph. So Republicans, eager to take the president down a notch, went after him on Whitewater, Travelgate, cattle futures, and a host of other numerous ethical lapses. None of that interested the American public, so the extramarital affairs, particularly the one with the 21-year-old intern, were amplified. It seemed to be the only way America would take a look.

Imagine if Republicans did not have the red meat of Monica, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones and many others. No one would pay attention to Whitewater…it was too boring and complicated. Travelgate would have died down. Clinton’s presidency would be hailed for the nation’s economy and anything else that the media could think of (they made a point to cheer the bald eagle being taken off the endangered species list).

But the public couldn’t get enough of Monica, at least until she finally opened her mouth and told her story to Barbara Walters, at which point America promptly decided enough was enough.

Had Bill Clinton stayed faithful to Hillary (certainly a difficult concept to grasp, but bear with me), his popularity may have been enough not only to put Al Gore in the White House, but to have Hillary be the nominee today.

I’ve read comment after comment about Hillary that she and her lowlife dog of a husband need to go home and get the hell out of politics.

That Hillary continued to stay with her relentlessly cheating man was, to the public, very revealing. Think about it. Besides her personality obviously, what is it that makes people see Hillary as shamelessly, unquenchably thirsting for power, or that she seemed to think it was owed to her? Anyone who looked at the Clinton’s marriage for more than two seconds could not help but be mystified at its continued existence. Why did she stay? Why did she enable him? What could be any woman’s motivation for allowing herself to be humiliated so often and so brutally?

Human nature being what it is, people on both sides of the aisle speculated. Not being mind-readers of Scott McClellan’s caliber, most of us concluded that she needed her charming, highly politically skilled husband to counterpoint her tough demeanor and make her the perfect candidate for the most powerful person in the world.

After all, the only other obvious reason would be massive insecurity, and on the surface at least, Hillary doesn’t seem to suffer from that.

If Hillary were married to a loyal husband, she would have been seen as tough-minded instead of power-mad, happy and stable in her strong marriage instead of blindly consumed by political ambition. Her hard-nosed attributes, instead of working for her, ended up working against her, thanks to her philandering life partner. And if Hillary had been married to a loyal husband, there would have been far less baggage—no Monica, no Gennifer, no Kathleen, no Juanita—and far fewer reasons for major Democrat figures to kick her to the curb.

As difficult as it can be for Republicans, especially given that the slighted heiress made her own bed with Bill, there is actually reason to feel sorry for Mrs. Clinton today. Imagine all those years of very public humiliation for nothing. She might as well keep the bastard and continue to suffer his adultery…it does her no good to get rid of him now.

Remember that when they once again say it’s “just about sex”.