Paul Weyrich Quotes
We didn’t have a moral majority in America. If we did, Clinton would have been impeached.
Weyrich and many other extreme religious conservatives are often loose with legal and political facts. Actually President Clinton was impeached by the Republican Controlled House of Representatives, but was acquitted by the Senate which decided that he was not guilty of what his political enemies had accused him of or those things were not of sufficient import to warrant impeachment. What Weyrich probably meant was that if there had been a moral majority in America, Clinton would have been convicted and removed from office. Ironically, the Republican Speaker of the House which impeached Clinton had been Newt Gingrich, who abandoned his first wife and was having an affair with a staff member. Livingston who was then elected speaker of the House also was committing adultery as were many in the group who found Clinton morally wanting for his sexual activity with am intern and his attempted coverup. They too, tried to cover up their scandalous behavior.
Paul Weyrich, Director, Free Congress Foundation, Interview with Brian Lamb, C-SPAN, Q&A, March 28, 2005
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Nixon’s remark {583773} had been suppressed by the Nixon family and McGovern and the world first heard it 40 years after the fact.
She was attacking George W. Bush who had started the Iraq War on the pretext that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, while Clinton lied over sex and although it violated the law by lying under oath, there were no injuries or deaths, while hundreds of thousands died as a result of the Iraq war. Bush claimed that he did not intentionally lie, but was mislead by poor intelligence estimates. See {583802} for another view opposing the impeachment which ended when Clinton was Easily acquitted.
Senator Grimes thought that Andrew Johnson was a terrible President, but when the House of Representatives impeached President Johnson and he was tried before the Senate, Grimes voted for acquittal. His reason for the his vote was he thought that the Constitution did not provide for the removal if a President just because he has “Unacceptable.” Johnson survived removal from office by a single vote and had Grimes not been so principled about the Constitution, Johnson would have been removed from office. On the other hand, Johnson was a terrible President and many of the nations racial problems in later years emanated from his actions and inactions while in office.
The President was advised that if he maintained his policies he would be impeached:
It is hard to compromise on a position where advocates believe they are following God’s commandment. To compromise is to abandon God and morality. Issues like abortion, gay marriage, and prayer in public activities are examples of issues of seeming intractable resolution.
Paul Michael Weyrich was an American religious conservative political activist and commentator, most notable as a figurehead of the New Right. He co-founded the conservative think tanks The Heritage Foundation, the Free Congress Foundation, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). He coined the term "moral majority," the name of the political action group Moral Majority that he co-founded in 1979 with Jerry Falwell.
