>Maybe. But we don't punish all crimes. We didn't punish George Bush for lying about raising taxes. We didn't punish Dan Quayle for dodging the draft (nor Clinton). We probably won't punish Kenneth Starr for leaking grand jury testimony. And when it comes to letting people off the hook, the guy who really takes the cake was a certain Republican named Gerald Ford.
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Lying under oath ( in court and in the Grand Jury )is a LITTLE different than saying "no new taxes!" Please compare apples to apples.



>>The only difference is there is a double standard in this country, one for Democrats and another for Republicans. It is fairly evident that Republicans are held to and maintain the higher one.
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>It's not evident to me. If you want to prove a proposition, you've got to do better than simply assert it.
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How about published polls and individual reporters (networks) admitting most are liberal democrats.

>> If this had been a Republican Prez, NOW, and other liberal groups would have run him out of office during Genifer Flowers revelations.
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>No Republican president within memory has been attractive enough to women to make that a problem. Gennifer Flowers was a consensual relationship, wasn't it? Why would NOW care?
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Now would care because it would be ammunition. Ammunition because the republicans think character matters (see election - presidential - 1992 and democrats "it's the economy stupid")

>BTW, I suppose you think our press is quite liberal, too. How do you account for the fact that the press seems much more interested in impeaching Clinton than the public? :)

They are out for ratings. They hate having to "do" the president, but they also have to maintain the ratings. Even though people say they are tired of it, there is a feeding frenzy going on right now and people are focused on the tawdry affair, with promises of much more to come. (No pun intended.)