The GOP hasn't forgiven the Clintons since Monicagate--not that he wasn't guilty, but that nobody really gave a shit. Everybody knows bosses bonk their secretaries, so what else is new? They have been coming up with conspiracies about Bill and Hillary ever since and have yet to come up with even one that could stick with anyone except the True Believers. They have bungled their attacks on her so badly that even if it was proven she was CCing the Kremlin on all her Foggy Bottom emails no would believe them. They've cried wolf too often to be taken seriously.

No, I'm not saying the Clintons are saints, just that no one could possibly be as evil as these two have been painted. Not even Richard Nixon. The hatred was seamlessly shifted to the Kenyan, Muslim, Socialist Makaka, but his 2008 and 2012 victories showed that only the Right ever bought into those lurid fantasies either. Remember how astonished the GOP was when they found out that over half the country's voters never took their Birther nonsense seriously? The narrative they had so carefully constructed and so completely swallowed was only obvious to them, not to anyone else.

To understand 21st century American politics you have to look at it like this. GHWB was a qualified and competent Conservative, but he committed the unpardonable sin of realizing taxes on the rich were too low. He was torpedoed by his own party.

Bill Clinton was wildly popular and his two terms were prosperous and peaceful. The fact Bill was dipping the wick at the office simply wasn't a hanging offense any more.

Dubya was supposed to be the new Reagan, but he wound up being the new Hoover, instead. And now, it looks like Obama will be remembered as the new Roosevelt, providing something awful doesn't happen in the Western Pacific, Eastern Europe or the Middle East over the next few months. The Republicans ran two competent and reasonable men against him during his term, but the Right now wants ideological purity and political incorrectness. Well, it got both with Mr Trump.

Right now, the American public is dying to vote for a Republican, ANY Republican, not because Clinton is so bad necessarily, but because the electorate likes to switch parties every few years, just for a change. Any Democrat would already have two strikes against him, or her, regardless of who he or she was. If Trump manages to lose this year it will be a testament to how totally screwed up the Republican Party and the Conservative Movement is, and how completely they have fallen for their own propaganda.