When Hillary was doing her whole Obama-can’t-protect-you schtick, when Bill was comparing him to Jesse Jackson, Palin basically calling him a terrorist sympathizer, people calling his wife a racist black nationalist, people at rallies calling for his death – he didn’t get all bitter and furious and blame everybody else if the campaign took a downturn. Now with the crap about death panels and Beck calling him a fascist and the Republicans calling him a waffler over Afghanistan, it’s the same – he doesn’t take it personally.

Responding to things like death panels by pointing out they’re bunk is one thing. He’s good at not taking political attacks personally. Palin takes everything personally.

There are simply competing cultural views in the private realm. Choose, and go on about your business. As long as government stays out of it, no one is coerced — everyone chooses according to whatever flips their switch.

Maybe yes maybe no, but the point is I don’t have to. Whatever the nature of “true feelings” of Mr. & Mrs. Clinton regarding the failure of sexual fidelity in their marraige, they were clearly outweighed by the fear of adverse political consequences arising from the same (or anything else for that matter). Moreover, and I would argue more importantly, that apprension was widely shared among liberal/Democrat partisans, poisoning the well of political discourse to this day.

Really? It seems to me we know as much as we need to know. That is, the Clintons’ marriage tells us how heavily the Clintons (and the other team in general) are invested in political status.