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As Donald Trump starts bringing up Bill Clinton’s personal indiscretions with a White House intern that Hillary called a “loony toon” and also brings up discredited allegations from GOP operatives straight out of the Arkansas Project and Richie Mellon Scaife’s playbook, some here on Daily Kos seem to be doing Trump’s job for him by giving credence to the discredited allegations, or failing to see that the Paula Jones settlement was not any sort of guilty anything, but a way to stop the witch hunt from going further. Other people have even brought up the cattle futures non-scandal, Whitewater, etc. as some sort of moral failing of the Clintons, when those were found to be baseless accusations too.
Not too surprisingly, this stuff usually comes from people who aren’t voting for Hillary in the primary (tho not all), or some who won’t do their patriotic duty and vote for her if she is the nominee.
One of the common themes is that the Monica incident and bullshit impeachment “elected George W. Bush.” While it can be argued that those things didn’t help Gore and didn’t hurt Bush, it is dishonest, ignorant, and disingenuous to cite that as the overriding reason Gore didn’t make it to the White House, or that was the only reason he didn’t make it to the White House. Another BS reason given that Gore didn’t make the WH is that the “Clinton machine” was “too busy electing HRC to the Senate.” Bullshit.
Vice President Al Gore lost* the electoral vote in 2000 by 3, 267-271, before the faithless elector which brought his “official” count to 266. (this little factoid people miss but considering the closeness, it is extremely important to get that right!!!!) You could call winning the most votes nationally but “losing” the electoral college bad luck: only 4 out of 57 (~7%) elections in our history had such a result, the other 53 (or 93%) have popular vote winners corresponding to electoral vote winners. But you could also call it the result of many, many things, aside from bad luck, and aside from Monica Lewinsky.
Here is the truth:
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