Lisa Schiffren writes, below, on her favored Giuliani-Thompson ticket: “Neither has quite as perfect a personal life as we would like — but Hillary doesn’t either.” I certainly don’t think that anyone has to be a saint to be a good political leader–my sympathies are with Stuttaford on that point–but I suspect that Republican voters are more apt to hold a politician’s personal life against him than Democratic voters are. So as a political matter, I don’t think “well the Clintons have had their messes too” neutralizes the Republicans’ problem.