Clinton was pursued and vilified and eventually impeached precisely because he DID lie to the American people. Had he said,"Yeah. I did it. And the rest of it is between my wife and me", I don't think that any of the rest of the investigation would have happened. Instead, he stonewalled and was finally forced to admit the truth. By then, enough people were angry with him that the republicans felt that it was safe to call for impeachment.
It wasn't the sex that did it. It was the lie.

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