Captain’s Quarters examines liberal Jonathan Chait’s surprising discovery that the Clintons are sleazy.

Lying. Sleaze-mongering. False claims. Well, no one can say that conservatives didn’t warn everyone — repeatedly — about these Clinton characteristics. Chait still wants to shrug it off by claiming that the Republicans are somehow worse, and does so by calling Paula Jones “trailer trash”, and then justifying it in the next paragraph.

Somehow, that doesn’t amount to a stirring repudiation of sleaze-mongering and character assassination, Jonathan.

This does show that the Clintons have started becoming a liability among the elites. That could drive better coverage of their deceptions and smears from the media and expose them in a way that never happened during their years in power. It might force the Democrats to come to terms with the gutter politics they’ve cheered from this crowd and finally put an end to the Clinton machine.

UPDATE: The more I think about Chait’s repeated assertions of Jones as “trailer trash”, the more revealing it gets. How exactly does Jones qualify? She turned down Bill’s awkward pass, but didn’t take any action against him until someone claimed she’d acquiesced. She took the same exact action Democrats hailed when they rolled out sexual-harassment legislation in The Year of the Woman — 1992, just after Anita Hill’s accusations that sprang out of 10 years of silence and her following the alleged perpetrator to a new job elsewhere.

Remember when Democrats accused Republicans of not “getting it” during Clarence Thomas’ testimony? We “got it” just fine. Women who accuse Republicans of sexual impropriety are heroes of the Left, while women who do the same to Democrats — in a lot more timely manner and with actual evidence of wrongdoing — are “trailer trash”, unworthy of respect. In fact, for elites like Chait, these women are nothing more than commodities for his partisan rancor.