1994 Letter: Why Clinton's adulteries won't hurt him with voters

Once again, nobody would publish this back when I wrote it, but it's looking fairly accurate in 1998.

Letter to the Editor
New York Times
January 6, 1994

Dear Editors:

Re: "Brock's Women" op-ed by Frank Rich, 1/6/94

Whether David Brock's Troopergate revelations (The American Spectator, January, 1994) will harm Mr. Clinton with the national electorate is doubtful. After all, most Arkansas voters had long heard rumors of their Governor's indulgence in industrial scale adultery, yet many seemed to take pride in his exploits, as shown by Arkansas being the only state to give him a majority in 1992. In fact, rather than revealing Mr. Clinton as "all too pathetically ordinary" as your Op-Ed columnist Frank Rich says, Brock's article depicts quite a formidable man. Mr. Clinton's ability to charm and satisfy large numbers of women, to do without sleep, to lie persuasively, to keep track of his many lies, even his capacity for eating a baked potato in two bites . . . these are not traits of the average man but of a certain kind of natural leader, the type that Africans call a "Big Man". Where exactly our Big Man may be leading us, however, is an altogether different question.

Yours truly,

Steve Sailer

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Steve Sailer (steveslr@aol.com) is a businessman and writer.