Why this sudden GOP love affair with Bubba, the man they tried to impeach, a guy they accused of adultery and murder, the President who set the standard the Bush Baby couldn't even come close to matching, the devil whose very First Lady became a target of sputtering hate and shivering rage like no woman since Eleanor Roosevelt?

Bill Clinton is who everybody thinks of when they remember how well run the country was before Dubya took power. Clinton campaigned actively and effectively for the Great Satan Obama, and single-handledly dismantled Mitt Romney's entire political program and personality on a thousand podia (sic?) around the country, to the howls and cheers of crazed Democratic audiences.

You'd think if the Republicans really wanted to honor a Democrat, they'd pick someone safely from the distant past, a Democrat who was world-respected, a born-again Christian, philanthropist, a businessman, farmer, family man, military veteran, all the virtues they pay lip-service to--and who even Democrats have to concede had an unsuccesful single term in the White House. Jimmy Carter, after all, did broker the Camp David accords, so he even has the resume for this job.

He was, after all, the man who made Ronald Reagan look good by comparison.