If you kept kayfabe in the circus, you protected the secrets of the Three Card Monty and the magic acts and stunts performed. If you were to break kayfabe, no greater an offense could you do. You would have revealed the secrets. People don't want political kayfabe broken. They want to believe that Clinton heart is into a centrist agenda, they really wanted to believe that Nixon wasn't a crook, they really want to believe in the good.
People make the mistake of taking things at face value.
With 24-hour news coverage and the information available today, they cannot afford to. The public really wanted to believe that the Lewinsky matter was a figment of Ken Starr's imagination, they really wanted to believe that Clinton was set up, that the dress was an Internet rumor only. They wanted to believe, as they had believed when they checked his name off in two elections. But he let them all down. The mask came off, the charade ended, and the public was front and center to see it.