After 8 years of Reagan and 4 years of Bush senior, Bill Clinton kind of came out of nowhere and became a hero to lots of very depressed democrats. He tapped into the “real American white male with a southern accent” demographic that had turned republican under Reagan and we needed to ever get back to the White House. His personal life a…
After 8 years of Reagan and 4 years of Bush senior, Bill Clinton kind of came out of nowhere and became a hero to lots of very depressed democrats. He tapped into the “real American white male with a southern accent” demographic that had turned republican under Reagan and we needed to ever get back to the White House. His personal life antics probably gave us bush jr and I will never forgive him for that but we needed him in the 1990’s and some good things got done.
Oh, I know, I lived it! But I’m Catholic enough that the infidelity was disqualifying for me even then. (Oddly, it’s the only part of Catholicism that ever stuck!) I felt like if he couldn’t keep a vow, why should we trust him to keep an oath of office?
And I despised NAFTA. And DADT. And DOMA. And the crime bill. But it was better than Reagan.
Personal life stuff has become a lot more important in the last 20 years. I mean George Bush Junior had a blameless personal life, but he still was terrible. And God knows JFK would’ve never been elected.
That obsession about candidates' personal lives really has to go. Do you fuk goats? Hmm. But you support national health care? I'm voting for you. Meanwhile, be gentle with the goats.
Haha. Yeah, if it consensual between two adults I’m okay. There can be big power imbalances with politicians (and lots of other bigwigs) so on the whole I think it makes things less messy but again bush jr and Reagan were devoted husbands but put into place terrible policies that made life a lot worse for lots of people.
After 8 years of Reagan and 4 years of Bush senior, Bill Clinton kind of came out of nowhere and became a hero to lots of very depressed democrats. He tapped into the “real American white male with a southern accent” demographic that had turned republican under Reagan and we needed to ever get back to the White House. His personal life antics probably gave us bush jr and I will never forgive him for that but we needed him in the 1990’s and some good things got done.
Oh, I know, I lived it! But I’m Catholic enough that the infidelity was disqualifying for me even then. (Oddly, it’s the only part of Catholicism that ever stuck!) I felt like if he couldn’t keep a vow, why should we trust him to keep an oath of office?
And I despised NAFTA. And DADT. And DOMA. And the crime bill. But it was better than Reagan.
Personal life stuff has become a lot more important in the last 20 years. I mean George Bush Junior had a blameless personal life, but he still was terrible. And God knows JFK would’ve never been elected.
That obsession about candidates' personal lives really has to go. Do you fuk goats? Hmm. But you support national health care? I'm voting for you. Meanwhile, be gentle with the goats.
Haha. Yeah, if it consensual between two adults I’m okay. There can be big power imbalances with politicians (and lots of other bigwigs) so on the whole I think it makes things less messy but again bush jr and Reagan were devoted husbands but put into place terrible policies that made life a lot worse for lots of people.