The Clinton Gamble

Keep in mind, Bill Clinton is making news in the New York Times today and he didn't start really stumping for Hillary until she started to slip in the polls. See the links below. Hillary may have had to bring out Bill as the big gun in Iowa, despite his not having kept his own gun holstered since leaving office.

Via Hot Air headlines linking to Bill Robison at HuffPo:

Look, I am concerned. I've just spent two weeks travelling and speaking with media elites in L.A., Chicago, NYC, and D.C. and among other things, I was repeatedly told that The New York Times and The L.A. Times are "sitting on a BIG Clinton story." ... The "big story" everyone is sitting on apparently has to do with the many current affairs of Bill Clinton, whom, they will allege, has a gal in every port.

That scenario was noted at Ace's back in October with a name being named. But most who follow politics closely can probably remember this coming up before. And it came up yesterday previously in the Telegraph, including a mention of reporting by the New York Times.

These are expected to include claims that her husband, Bill Clinton, 60, has continued to conduct extra-marital affairs since leaving the White House in 2000 under the cloud of scandal created by his affair with the intern, Monica Lewinsky.

Sen Clinton, 59, and senior aides have indicated that they expect a broadside of attacks from what they now call the "Republican machine" and what she used to refer to as "the vast Right-wing conspiracy".

The first volley was delivered last month with the release of The Clinton Crack-Up by R Emmett Tyrrell, the editor of the American Spectator, who relentlessly pursued the Clintons during their time in Washington. Mr Tyrrell claims that since leaving office in 2000, the former president has had a series of affairs, mainly one-night stands on foreign trips.

Private investigators are known to have been digging into the former president's relationship with a wealthy divorcée in the upstate New York town of Chappaqua, where the Clintons have lived since 2000. Claims about the nature of the friendship appeared on Right-wing websites and in an American tabloid in 2004 and 2005.

His closeness to the glamorous blonde Canadian heiress and politician, Belinda Stronach, also came under scrutiny after the two were seen together socially several times. The normally gossip-averse New York Times reported last year that several prominent New York politicians "became concerned" over a tabloid photograph of the two leaving a restaurant, while the Toronto Globe claimed they were more than just friends.

Comments

[mojo]

Belinda Stronach is "glamorous"? Rich, sure, but glamorous? I'd have said "dowdy" myself.

[dumbblonde]

I can't watch or listen to either of the Clintons without feeling like I need a shower. Ugh.