The entire Supreme Court -- including the justices Clinton appointed -- boycotted Clinton's State of the Union address after his impeachment trial. That's what they thought of crimes that attack the legal system.
Rep. James Rogan lost his congressional seat because he stuck by his principles as a manager of Clinton's impeachment. Lifelong Democrat David Schippers abandoned his party's lockstep defense of Clinton to pursue Clinton's impeachment as the House Judiciary Committee's chief counsel. Rep. Henry Hyde saw an affair he had in 1965 become front-page news because he wouldn't waver from doing his job under the Constitution.
But, as The New York Times recently said, Thompson "agonized over what he saw as two 'bad choices.'"
What bad choices? Punishing a multiple felon or not punishing him? This wasn't exactly a job for King Solomon, pal.
The Times reported that calls from Thompson's Tennessee constituents showed that they "overwhelmingly favored removing President Bill Clinton from office."
So Thompson could either: (1) Follow the Constitution and make his constituents happy or, (2) disregard the Constitution and make his Hollywood friends happy.
Only a handful of Republicans voted against all law and reason to keep Clinton in office, and only one of them was from Tennessee.
This isn't the time to be toying with any Republican who had a Clinton in his sights and ended up shooting himself in the foot.
If you're bored with our top candidates, go see a slasher movie. Don't take it out on a presidential election.
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