An excerpt from Rich Lowry's Legacy: Paying The Price For The Clinton Years:
Clinton could have been a truly great campaign operative, helping some other, better man be president. Be he was fundamentally miscast in an office that depended on his person, that couldn't be filled just with political strategy and campaign skills, and that required qualities his moral cowardice denied him. He trailed dishonesty like a plume of bad cologne, lying to protect himself, to reposition himself, and to make himself feel better. He created a private language of evasion memorialized in that haiku of Clintonism -- "it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
Clinton shrank liberalism and the presidency. His 1992 campaign didn't lead to a liberal revival. Instead, liberalism atrophied, often able to check conservative reforms but not an independent force in its own right. It was a liberalism largely shorn of its idealism and of its ambition. Clinton became comfortable in the presidency only as the job dwindled to an exalted governorship or school superintendency.
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