Not meant as maligning. It's just observable. The Democrats forever changed the national political landscape when they proved that they did not find Clinton's sexual behavior objectionable. Anyone knows that a Republican would not have been similarly bulletproof.

Heck, it's not maligning. Democrats wear their tolerance for sexual scandal like an enlightened badge. It's not "scandal". They consider themselves not so benighted and backwards as to be concerned about anyone's sexual behavior.

The last time Democrats were enraged about another's sexual behavior -- not as a nudging to the Republicans asking them "hey you said this kind of stuff mattered to you. Aren't you going to do something about YOUR guy?!" -- but as a "HEY! this is WRONG!" ...was when they thought Clarence Thomas was sexually intimidating an underling. Even that, of course, changed when it occurred to them that Lewinsky could have been consrued as less powerful than Clinton.