If you listen to Alison Lundergan Grimes and her echo chamber of far left liberals you will hear them ranting that republicans have waged a war on women. That is absurd, and offensive particularly considering that she is hyping her upcoming date with Bill Clinton. Here's what one editorial in the liberal San Francisco Chroincle says about him:
"[Y]ou have to give [Senator Rand] Paul this much: He rightly pointed out the chasm between how Clinton Democrats treat women as an interest group and how they treat them as people. When Bubba strayed, only the women paid.
The McFadden-Lynch memo serves as a reminder of what the Clinton machine does to women who speak out. They become loose ends who need to be tied up."
That editorial is a reminder that the stain Bill Clinton left on the presidency goes well beyond him getting a 22 year old intern to perform oral sex on him.
There was of course the admission to his affairs with various women during his marriage as well as claims by several of him forcing himself on them:
Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Dolly Kyle Browning, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Wiley.
Juanita Broaddrick told her story to a national television audience last night, saying she did not tell authorities 21 years ago of her contention that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her because "I just don't think anyone would have believed me."
In a gripping account punctuated by sobs, the Arkansas woman told "Dateline NBC" that in her Little Rock hotel room, Clinton suddenly "turned me around and started kissing me, and that was a real shock. I first pushed him away. I just told him 'no.' . . . He tries to kiss me again. He starts biting on my lip. . . . And then he forced me down on the bed. I just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him 'no.' . . . He wouldn't listen to me."
The nursing home operator, previously known as Jane Doe No. 5, told Myers that she felt "violated" but finally stopped resisting Clinton's sexual advances because "it was a real panicky situation." She said that "he was just a vicious, awful person."
Pressed by Myers as to whether she was raped, Broaddrick said she had been. "It was not consensual," she insisted. [Washington Post]
It defies logic to attempt an understanding of why any candidate, particularly a female candidate, would want to have anything to do with Bill Clinton, unless the lust for the money he delivers at the end of the night is enough for them to put their morals and their values on hold until the affair is over.
A relationship with a man of such low moral character done solely for money was once the kind of thing that caused people to call you an ugly name. But today candidates squeal loudly if people call them ugly names and their buddies in the press to rush to their defense whenever Slick Willie is involved.
You can expect Alison Lundergan Grimes to continue making the offensive and abusurd argument that it is her opponent, rather than her new political bedfellow Bill Clinton who is the one waging war on women. But I for one think women are too smart to fall for such baloney.
Happy Valentines Day ladies.
Debra Saunders does not write the editorials for the Chronicle. She is a conservative columnist.
The "McFadden Lynch memo" she refers to was written in 1992. Folks, that was 22 years ago for those who are keeping track at home.
The controversy launched a "liberal" movement called "move on". It's time to move on.
Posted by: Robert | February 14, 2014 at 08:43 PM