Just ask Newt Gingrich. But there's a lot more to politics than personality and stratagems. Great politicians not only survive in office, they achieve great things, build their party, and leave an enduring and positive legacy. Clinton managed only to survive. Years ago, Sidney Hook made a distinction between eventful and event-making leaders.
Eventful presidents have little influence on important events that occur during their term.
Ronald Reagan was an event-making president. Clinton is eventful. A wiser politician would not have turned his most significant domestic initiative, national health care, over to his wife. Nor would he have spurned reasonable compromises offered by leading Republicans. Clinton wound up with nothing.