Conservatives are still a long way from recovering from their post impeachment funk.
The most dispirited among them talk as if the American people, in their failure to recognize the necessity for President Clinton s removal from office, should themselves be put in the dock. Most conservatives, while occasionally tempted to such melancholy conclusions, finally retreat from them, if only on grounds of prudence. They remember what happened to a McGovernism that decided, in effect, that America was not good enough for it. A few of them edge up to what I in splendid isolation among conservatives take to be the case. The American people did not get things wrong at all.