Clinton's recent use of frivolous court privileges is very much like the routine liberal use of frivolous labels to throw conservatives off. When the heat was on, he used what liberals always use, fast footwork to get attention off of the hot problem. In January almost everybody, from Moynihan to Ginsberg, agreed that if Clinton had had sex with an intern in the White House, he should go. N ovak was busy trying to be trendy and Buchanan went back into his moralist groove. The basic point was utterly forgotten by the respectables.
T hat is, after all, what they are there for.
By the time he has saved his respectability, he has completely forgotten the point he was making. It never really mattered to him anyway. T his is not a conspiracy to select kooks and lightweights. It is simply that, if you had someone there who would not let liberals get away with silly stuff, the debate would collapse. A man who worked with me on the House Education and Labor Committee appeared once, just once, on a national television debate.