"John Hardly,
I seriously doubt that the Dems would have ever spent over $70 million dollars investigating everything in a Republican President's past that might conceivably be construed as a scandal

Had a Republican President behaved with an over-21 intern the way Clinton did, he should not have been impeached any more than Clinton should have, and he almost certainly would not have been convicted and removed from office"

Of course they wouldn't spend $70 million dollars investigating. All they'd have to do is make the suggestion about the charges and the press would do the rest. The Republicans would then call for his resignation. Just like Craig.

That, again, is my point.

There is an effective power imbalance created by the Republican voting base's morals standard that the Democrats don't have to deal with. It used to be that fears of mutual blackmail kept that kind of power grab in check. Ever since Clinton though, the Democrats now fully understand that they are bulletproof from sexual scandal. Their base doesn't care. Republicans are having a hard time grasping why the mutual blackmail that used to assure them that they could stay in power too doesn't work for them anymore.