Rand Paul's Laughable Lewinsky Obsession [View all]
Rand Paul wants to party like it’s 1998. The big question is why.
America’s Ophthalmologist, who somehow sees himself as a credible presidential candidate, seems to think he can undercut Hillary Clinton by resurrecting her husband’s last-century sins. Six times in recent weeks, including a recent Sunday on C-Span, the libertarian Kentucky senator has assailed Bill for his trysts with Monica Lewinsky, accused Hillary of guilt-by-marital-association, and suggested that Bill was waging a war on women.
He really wants to resurrect a scandal that most Americans long ago consigned to history’s dustbin? He really thinks he can make hay by recycling ’98? What’s next for him, a nostalgia tour with Celine Dion?
Apparently Paul has no clue that after the dust settled in ’98, after a year of GOP-concocted constitutional crisis, after the impeachment show, President Clinton posted a 66 percent approval rating in the Gallup poll. Perhaps he can be excused for not knowing the history, because then he was an eye doc minoring in fringe-politics pamphleteering.
Paul launched his first salvo 15 days ago, when he told “Meet the Press,” “Bosses shouldn’t prey on young interns in their office. And I think really the media seems to have given President Clinton a pass on this ... We shouldn’t want to associate with people who would take advantage of a young girl in his office ... I mean, really — and then (Democrats) have the gall to stand up and say ‘Republicans are having a war on women?” Granted, Bill’s behavior was “not Hillary’s fault,” but “sometimes it’s hard to separate one from the other.”
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