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In reply to the discussion: Shame on Monica Lewinsky [View all]Hekate
(90,646 posts)Tripp was also the creature of the GOP, and she betrayed the hell out of Monica. I truly feel sorry for Monica on the basis of her persecution by the GOP. She thought seducing the Big Dog was going to be a romp, and it blew up in her face and blew her life apart. Bill Clinton didn't do that: the Right Wing did.
Rethink your charge about powerful men as it relates to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair -- Bill Clinton didn't get a pass. The GOP had been trying to find anything at all to destroy him (and his wife) with, and they finally found it. They did not give a damn who they destroyed along the way, if only they could get the Clintons. If poor foolish Monica had actually committed suicide, the GOP operatives would have privately laughed and publicly blamed the Clintons. If they'd had their way, Clinton would have been thrown out of office, period.