Daily Howler is a must read today for an insightful look at the current situation and modern American political theater.
Really.
Now, here comes the part which is apparently too complex for large numbers of us liberals to grasp. When we ourselves insist on repeating these themes, we continue to spread the unhelpful idea that Al Gore is a big fucking joke. This helps degrade Gore’s public image—and it helps degrade the public image of Major Dem Leaders as a whole. Beyond that, it helps explain why Gore, not being completely crazy, almost surely won’t run for the White House again. After all, if this is the way his supporters portray him, how could he expect to be portrayed by the RNC and the mainstream press corps? The sheer absurdity of this matter simply boggles the mind.
A couple of other things:
The Democrats may be better this time at getting out the votes, but the Republicans will still be better at counting them.
And, for the record, Monica Lewinsky was 22 when she met Clinton.