On November 16, 2017, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) kicked off her run for the 2020 presidency by intoning that Bill Clinton should have resigned (in disgrace?) in 1998 over the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Talk sure is cheap, isn't it? That's because the Democrats had in their power to dump Clinton in 1999 and kick him right out of office – and took a pass on it. They could even have accomplished this with a minority of their Senate membership. And not only would it have been easy, but it would even have redounded to their benefit, by guaranteeing their continued rule for at least six more years and probably ten. They would have only benefited from doing so. And how!
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States states that "no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."
This means that if Vice President Albert Sidney "Al" Gore had succeeded to the Presidency in 1999, he would have been enabled to serve out the time remaining in Clinton's term – and then two full terms of his own. Gore would have been on a fast track to become the longest serving president in American history, save only Franklin Roosevelt himself.
We can reasonably infer that if Gore had succeeded to the presidency in 1999, the 2000 election line-up would have been the same in that alternate reality as it was in ours: Gore versus Bush.
But would the outcome have been the same? Almost certainly not. The easiest way to win a presidential election is to run as an incumbent. Even with Gore not running in 2000 as the incumbent president, he gained 500,000 more popular votes than Bush did. If Gore had been the incumbent, Gore's winning margin would certainly have been several million popular votes, and Bush would never have been able to win in the Electoral College. Gore would have had the added advantage of claiming to be the stand-in for the "martyred" President Clinton. So why not just dump Clinton then and there?
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Only one reason comes to mind: blackmail files. The Clintons did have those900 FBI raw files. They also had their own minions of paid hacks. Does anyone think that only Republicans' dossiers were contained in those files? The Clintons must have had dirt on everybody, of both parties.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/11/how_a_new_york_senator_can_rag_on_the_clintons_without_risk_of_death.html
