If elected President, which of these Democrats...

[Ken Burch]

59. Because they almost never said the words "we need a Democratic Congress"

When Bill was campaigning for re-election in 1996-despite the fact that there was no significant number of voters who were ONLY going to vote for the guy if he distanced himself from his party's downticket slate.

They triangulated in that re-election campaign right up to the end-and the way he bested Newt in the government shutdown of '95 should have at least made a Democratic re-take of the House a certainty. Newt only kept his party's majority because Bill and HRC left him unchallenged on that.

The stupid part is, if Bill had campaigned hard for a Democratic House and managed to get it in '96, the whole damn impeachment thing would never have happened(I still remember his arrogance in making the House and Senate Democrats wait a half and hour for him to show up when they came to the White House to show solidarity with him after he lost the impeachment vote in the House. The only reason he could have made them wait was that, even then, even when he no longer had ANYTHING to gain from it, Bill Clinton STILL couldn't stop with the damn triangulating. There's no excuse for dissing people who have come to show support for you in your most desperate hour of need, and that's exactly what he did that day. I've never forgotten it.