Reply #69: There you are with your HRC avatar ripping Gore's 2000 campaign [View All]

without acknowledging in the least that he was compromised by Clinton's appalling indiscretions in his second term. Instead of bragging about the accomplishments of the prior 8 years, he had to play defense. And if you think that was just a blunder by Gore, ask yourself why no Democratic candidates wanted to be seen with Clinton in the fall of 2000.

Clinton's defenders here will say his approval ratings were in the 60's and Gore and everyone else were wrong to run away from the record. But that ignores the entire dynamic of 2000, when you had the Republicans basing a large part of their campaign on restoring honor and integrity to Washington and getting away with it because Clinton fucked around with an intern and lied about it.