Well, we knew it would come to this, didn't we?
Prominent Obama supporters at Daily Kos are tying to use Bill Clinton's sex life against Hillary. I understand that Hillary is all-knowing and all-powerful, but I'm pretty sure she can't be held responsible for Bill's libido.
This diarist is interested in Bill's recent alleged encounters, while this diarist is more turned on by what Bill did with Monica. The latter diarist imagines that he's refreshing our memory about what transpired in 1998. But my memory is clear: The GOP persecuted Bill Clinton for having sex.
Even impeachment wasn't enough for some conservatives. In the Human Stain, Philip Roth reminded us that the recently departed William Buckley thought the Big Dog should be castrated.
The syndicated conservative newspaper columnist William F. Buckley wrote, "When Abelard did it, it was possible to prevent its happening again," insinuating that the president's malfeasance—what Buckley elsewhere called Clinton's "incontinent carnality"—might best be remedied with nothing so bloodless as impeachment but, rather, by the twelfth-century punishment meted out to Canon Abelard by the knife-wielding associates of Abelard's ecclesiastical colleague, Canon Fulbert, for Abelard's secret seduction of and marriage to Fulbert's niece, the virgin Heloise. Unlike Khomeini's fatwa condemning to death Salman Rushdie, Buckley's wistful longing for the corrective retribution of castration carried with it no financial incentive for any prospective perpetrator. It was prompted by a spirit no less exacting than the ayatollah's, however, and in behalf of no less exalted ideals
Of course, it wasn't just Republicans who joined the parade of self-righteousness. Holy Joe Lieberman was the parade's virtual grand marshal:
...[S]omething very sad and sordid has happened in American life when I cannot watch the news on television with my ten-year-old daughter any more.
Good company these pro-Obama diarists keep: Holy Joe and William Buckley.
There are oh-so-many ways to go at Hillary from the left. Good progressives don't attack candidates for their sex lives, much less attack candidates for their spouses' sex lives.
If you're tying to use Bill's penis against Hillary, you've already lost.