This post is not about Sarah Palin;...

...it's about Bill Clinton. In a piece about Sarah Palin in Time, Joe Klein says:

I have a theory about Bill Clinton: his philandering worked in his favor politically, especially with a demographic chunk that usually shies away from liberalism: American working guys. It made him more accessible. Here was a fellow who got it on with faded lounge singers and then celebrated with a Double Quarter Pounder and fries at the local McDonald's. If that ain't pickup-truck nirvana, what is?

I couldn't disagree with Klein more. In fact, I think that was exactly Clinton's problem with white males: he was an average-looking guy who cheated on his wife and got away with it--and every other guy in America was jealous.

If I have to play by the rules, so does Bubba--especially Bubba. What makes him so special? He's no better than me!

And that was one of the main reasons white males went along with the impeachment. No, Virginia, it wasn't about his lying under oath; it was about sex after all.

(It was really all about getting Bill Clinton, but that's the subject of another post.)