November 17, 2019
How the Democrats Bungled Impeachment and Prevented Al Gore from Becoming a 10-Year President
By James Nollet
With the Trump impeachment drama in full swing, it is useful to look back into history to see how past impeachment activity can impact the future.
We all know that the Republicans acted against their own interests when they impeached President Clinton in 1998, because this caused an electoral backlash against them in 1998. But what few realize is that the Democrats, too, at this time, acted against their own self-interests by their refusal to convict Clinton in the Senate, thereby preventing the accession of V.P. Al Gore and causing the election of the second President Bush in 2000.
To see how this works, let's go back to 1963, to the days before the assassination of President Kennedy. As popular as JFK was after his death and remains today, that was only an outcome of being assassinated. While he was alive, he actually was not a particularly popular president.
Patrick Buchanan has written about this. In his past writings, he cited the fact that Look Magazine had run a story in November 1963 titled "Kennedy Could Lose" (the 1964 election). When the news of the assassination broke, Look frantically tried to recall its issues, but it was too late; they had already hit the newsstands. (A similar scramble to spike a gauche story occurred at this time too when LIFE Magazine successfully recalled a story from its November 26, 1963 edition that would have examined LBJ's corruption with the likes of Bobby Baker and Billie Sol Estes.)
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