With Hilary Clinton expected to run for president in 2016, comments and questions about Monica Lewinsky have already surfaced.
"If (Democrats) want to take a position on women's rights, by all means do," Kentucky Sen. and potential presidential candidate Rand Paul said on C-SPAN. "But you can't do it and take it from a guy who was using his position of authority to take advantage of young women in the workplace."
So, apparently, has the journal of Hilary Clinton's best friend, Diane Blair (who passed in 2000), ABC reported. In it is Blair's take on how Clinton immediately reacted, and how she has since dealt with the scandal that nearly led to her husband's impeachment.
According to Blair, Clinton didn't speak with even her after she heard the news. Eventually, the first lady would come around, blame both her husband and herself for the incident, and return to her husband's side.
At his defense, she branded Lewinsky as a "narcissistic loony tune" and emphasized that the sex was consensual, and not the result of a "power relationship" as Blair wrote.
"And, HRC insists, no matter what people say, it was gross inappropriate behavior but it was consensual (was not a power relationship) and was not sex within any real meaning (standup, liedown, oral, etc.) of the term," Blair wrote.
Ultimately, Blair believed Clinton stuck with her husband because she's stubborn, she believed in what Bill was doing as president, and to maintain her family, including her daughter, Chelsea.
"So - she's in it for long haul," Blair wrote. "Partly because she's stubborn; partly her upbringing; partly her pride - but, mostly because she knows who she is and what her values and priorities are and she's straight with those - she really is okay."
