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Clinton is chiefly to blame for our moral crisis and that impeaching him might somehow reverse the fall of man. Yes, perhaps my client’s downfall would have a salutary effect on public attitudes-proving that even for him, character is destiny. But that is a moral, not a constitutional, point. Spare us at least the lofty democratic pretenses. The bigger business driving conservatives is not to “affirm” public morality but, by using Bill Clinton as an example, to reform it. Which raises, in turn, the question of why Mr. Bennett’s and Miss Coulter’s own political party twice failed to defeat a man by their own count base, amoral, phony, and manifestly untrustworthy. Perhaps, like Democrats in 1974, Republicans today are seeking to achieve by impeachment what they could not accomplish at the polls, branding as a threat to the Republic a flawed man whose most galling offense was to take advantage of their own failures and to exploit their own political weaknesses-a man who made light work of their incumbent President back when Republicans were congratulating one another on having an “electoral lock” on the White House. Say what you will of my client, but he’s a fighter. More than his obvious faults, maybe it is his perseverance, his raw willpower in the face of attack, that most unnerves his political opponents. Indeed, if there is any figure in the Republican Party to match him, it is Mr. Bennett himself, a man of enormous gifts who in 1996 as offered a chance to put Virtue, Inc., in escrow and make his case against Clinton as a vice-presidential candidate. How much timelier all this moral wisdom would have been two years go. If Mr. Bennett wants to bring morality and civility back into presidential politics-very well, then let our secretary of edification grab a mitt and get into the game. There is, in short, something a little too gleeful and overwrought in both these books. A certain amount of scorn is derstandable.

Bill Clinton has done much to deserve it. If, as seems likely, he leaves office, it will be for a fundamental lack of moral dignity and grace. Perhaps these final days would be a good time for his critics to show him what those virtues are.