re: #38 teleskiguy

The GOP’s impeachment of Bill Clinton was in the long term a win-win for them. If it succeeded, they would get rid of Clinton, who they hated.

If it failed, it would cement the idea of impeachment being only a partisan witch hunt into what passes for the minds of US political pundits. Naturally a total erasure of which party was responsible for the impeachment being a partisan witch hunt was part of the deal, but media both-siderists could be counted on for this service to the Party.

The other thing that was erased, of course, was Nixon having to resign in the face of a real threat to be impeached and removed from office. Since any GOP president will naturally contemplate greater levels of criminality than Nixon, making impeachment a generally impossible political process can only benefit the GOP.