With Hillary Clinton presently running way ahead of all her currently-possible G.O.P. opponents for 2016, the Republican Attack Machine is revving up to shift the mantle of Despotic Nazi Anti-Christ from Obama to her. We'll be soon be hearing that she was born in Kenya and that her birth certificate is an obvious forgery…and they may even try some Swiftboating, telling us that she phonied up her military record in Vietnam. They're also talking — and this is real — about resurrecting "The Clinton Scandals," meaning the mess with Ms. Lewinsky, Whitewater, Travelgate and Filegate.
They'll get nowhere with the Lewinsky matter since Hillary was a victim, not a victimizer, and it was all none of our business in the first place. And as Joe Conason reminds us, there was nothing to charges against Ms. Clinton in the others. Even Ken Starr, who was appointed by the Republican Party to find some teensy crime on which to indict her couldn't find anything. Not a thing.