Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Governor, you switch your positions faster than your friend Dick Morris," Kerry said, referring to the former Weld consultant who recently left the Clinton campaign amidst a sex scandal...
...hint of scandal has hung over the White House since the first days of the Clinton Administration...
...left brain responds with counterspin: both personal charity and political experience argue for rolling the eyes, shaking the head and dismissing the Dick Morris scandal. Let the dog that barks at midnight go back to Connecticut and get smacked on the nose with a newspaper by his wife. This is the oldest story: sex and politics, powerful men doing stupid, squalid things. No harm done, except to Morris and family. Morris' wife said in an interview with TIME, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." Of course most of us do not manage to sin as colorfully...
...right brain is winning the argument. But maybe the real importance of the Morris scandal is that it crystallizes a struggle that has been going on for years in the American cultural-political conscience. The dispute occurs at the point where the mess of personal character and ambition and expedient need runs into history, principle or public ridicule. Dick Morris' adventures at the Jefferson Hotel--though meaningless in themselves, and pretty funny, if you are feeling savage--are damaging because they connect in the American mind to larger questions of public trust. Doing so, they ensure that the manipulative cynicism...
During the New Hampshire primary campaign of 1992, Bill Clinton--beset by the Gennifer Flowers scandal--managed to place himself under what might be called the "Nobody's Perfect" Exemption. Thus (somewhat mysteriously) protected, he went on to the White House. If John Kennedy had tried it in 1960, he would not have made it to the Democratic Convention...