WI: Clinton Admits Affair

He didn't even have to. He could have refused to answer the question and made clear his sex life is off limits.
 
Assume that Bill Clinton is honest about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky from the get-go. What do you feel might be affected?

He doesn't get charged with perjury, that's a plus. On the other hand there isn't an impeachment circus led by a group of serial adulterers to boost his popularity.
 
Admitting to it would give credence to all of the OTHER adultery/sexual assault stories though, which has always been why Bill denied every one of them.
 
I would imagine that they would still impeach him due to abuse of power.

That one more than the perjury charge is actually a stronger, less hypocritical grounds for impeachment, especially in Bill's case. The narrative would then be more focused on the predatory and quasi-predatory nature of his affairs rather than him as having a "weakness for the ladies."
 

jahenders

Banned
He didn't even have to. He could have refused to answer the question and made clear his sex life is off limits.

Two problems with that:
1) Once you start talking about what underwear you wear, it's hard to claim the stolid, issue-focused high ground

2) Hard to argue your sex life is off limits when you're conducting it on the Resolute Desk, in the Oval Office, with White House Staffers
 

jahenders

Banned
Assume that Bill Clinton is honest about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky from the get-go. What do you feel might be affected?

I think he'd have been better off if he'd done so. There would be some (understandable) complaints about that, but it wouldn't have become a question of whether or not he was lying or committing perjury.

It also wouldn't have made Hillary look quite as stupid for pretending to believe him
 
How would America react to Bill saying "I had a blow job done on me, yes, but you see, i was under a lot of stress and Hillary and I had some problems, something we have gotten passt. I made an error and i have decided to seek counsil for my faults"
 
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