What were the worst republican myths about Clinton

[Zuni]

I love the one where they rant about people in Grateful Dead T-Shirts populating the west wing, or the one about Hillary decorating the WH Christmas Tree with sex toys.

[elperromagico]

1. The desecration of the White House myth still seems to endure.

Turned out to be absolute bollocks, of course.

The "Clinton murders" myth was one that never really caught on, but it's certainly a vicious one.

[Zuni]

6. they love that one FR

they even have some nutter making graphics of the supposed theft of silver

[Zuni]

7. I still see Clinton death list crap

all over the internet. On FR they talk about it like it was the gospel

[elperromagico]

8. Most of their "data" is culled from that damned Falwell-endorsed

video (I think it's called The Clinton Chronicles).

Of course, you could make a similar list for any prominent person (say, George W. Bush) who has had even fleeting contact with a large number of people. Then all you have to do is say, "These people died under mysterious circumstances! Perhaps they were murdered!" It doesn't take much to get tin-foil hatters going.

[Zuni]

9. exactly

I have known two people who died of mysterious circumstances. One was a 24 year old who died of a heart attack. If I was in the WH, I am sure the nutters would bring it up.

[zanana]

2. My favorite....

On the day Monica Lewinsky was to appear before the grand jury, some Republicans thought that he was wearing a tie that was sending a message to Monica. And they call US paranoid?

[Lou_C]

3. I have got one

Huge Myth:
He wouldn't have won the election if Ross Perot wasn't running.

[elperromagico]

5. Good one.

Perot's presence in the race didn't hurt, but it's been pretty conclusively shown that most of Perot supporters were people who wouldn't have voted had Perot not been on the ballot. The rest were pretty evenly divided between Bush and Clinton.

[democracyindanger]

4. The Mina-airport-cocaine-running crap

although I've never heard the Hillary-sex toys one before

[Philostopher]

10. I didn't know until years later ...

but apparently the paranoid right had a fantasy like the reality of today -- by that, I mean that Clinton would 'take over' and somehow manage to circumvent the Constitution to allow himself to stay in office permanently, or declare martial law to forestall the elections.

I mean, come on -- why the hell would a guy whose popularity was high, and who pretty much ran 'wire to wire' the second time through, feel compelled to do that? They were desperately afraid, apparently, that he would somehow manage to get all the Repubs in the senate and the House of Representatives to pass an amendment that took off the two-term limit on the presidency.

Most frightening to me is that they were all paranoid about that with absolutely no reason whereas now they don't give a shit because it's one of 'their boys' in there, and some of these things seem a whole lot less tin-foily. While I don't exactly expect it, I have to say the surprise wouldn't give me a heart attack on the spot if they tried any of this.

[baldguy]

11. That he somehow wasn't legitimate...

...because THEY didn't vote for him. Exemplified by Ollie North saying, "He's not my President." and Trent Lott saying, "You can support the troops without supporting the President."

[Zuni]

14. Isn't it funny

that the GOP is saying the opposite now, that you cannot support the troops without supporting the President.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

12. The "murder" of Vince Foster

That accusation, along with the groundless speculation upon which it is based, is one of the most despicable things that the pigs on the right ever spewed about the Clintons.

[jayavarman]

13. The coke smuggling - murder one although . . .

my personal favorite is the 'black love child' one . . . . Only time I ever heard it was at a barber shop here in Atlanta.

Was getting my hairs cut and the barber handed me this article purporting to show clintons "black love child" . . . Looked like it was from the world weekly news or something where someone had photoshopped a teenage pic of Clinton . . . . kid would supposedly be college age by now as he looked to be about 14 in the picture.

[Zuni]

15. did that to McCain too

in South Carolina, someone working for Bush started spreading rumors about his 'black child' which really was an adopted orphan from Bangladesh.