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Wednesday, September 9,1998
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DEMOCRATS
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One longtime Clinton adviser,
speaking on condition of anonym-
ity Friday, said an abruptly shift-
ing political landscape may
prompt him to urge the president
"to take the honorable way out”
and resign.
No Democrat said for attribu-
tion that Clinton should resign,
only that it was now a possibility.
Most party officials still argue that
Clinton has had little impact on
congressional races _ and need
not consider stepping down.
“There are always people who
want to cut and run, but Bill Clin-
ton should be permitted to move
forward,” said Ed Marcus, chair-
man of the Connecticut Demo-
cratic Party. “Now is not the time
to be piling on,” said Gary
LaPaille, an influential Demo-
cratic National Committee mem-
ber from Illinois.
At the White House, where
aides say Clinton is giving no
thought to resignation, spokesman
Barry Toiv said most of the evi-
dence suggests that Cl inton' s prob-
lems are not hurting Democratic
candidates.
“It’s understandable that the
atmosphere that’s been created in
recent days could cause some anxi-
ety, but if candidates focus on
what Demdcrats have accom-
plished and what they want to
achieve in the next two years, that
will be their best formula for suc-
cess,” Toiv said.-
But interviews with Demo-
cratic leaders across the country
showed clearly growing anxiety
that Starr’s report may reveal new
details that weaken the president’s
grip on office or create a congres-
sional frenzy that freezes out the
Democrats’ message to voters.
Whispers of resignation sur-
faced last week as party opera-
tives fretted over ominous signs
in polls that could portend a strong
turnout for Republicans in N'w. 3
elections _ and significant losses
for Clinton’s party. Several key
Senate Democrats voiced their
concerns about Clinton in remarks
from the Senate floor and House
members return from August re-
cess this week carrying concerns
from their constituents and eager
to see a new set of pre-election
surveys.
The tide began to turn against
Clinton when Democratic Sen.
Joseph Lieberman, a longtime
Clinton ally, declared on the Sen-
ate floor Thursday that the
president's actions demanded a
formal “public rebuke.”
While the Connecticut law-
maker spoke of the president’s
morality and its impact on "our
national character,” some Demo-
crats said they feared the political
implications of Clinton’s actions.
“There is such disappointment
... because we all believe if Demo-
crats do well (in November), we
will have better public policy,”
said Woodbum. “I didn’t do this
to defend sexual exploits of the
president. And at some point in
time we all have to ask ourselves
are we helping the cause that mo-
tivates us to do this or are we
simply holding on to power?”
“The cause is important,” he
said. “You can’t be blindly loyal.
You have to be loyal to the cause.”
Woodbum said he felt sorry
for “the little old ladies who de-
fended (Clinton) in bridge clubs.”
Yet he said most people don’t
want Clinton to leave office.
Philip Perington, the Colorado
party chairman, said, “We’ve just
taken a wait-and-see attitude. We
really haven’t taken a position
other than it’s Clinton’s problem
and if it becomes a problem for
our candidates and our leadership
then he really needs to assess
where the party will be in the next
two years and take a long view of
what’s down the road, and look at
it from the party’s view.”
“He’s got the ball,” Perington
said.
Some Democrats are worried
about what shoe might drop next.
Clinton “knows what’s going
done a good job of being president
and we should support him in that
role.”
His counterpart in New Hamp-
shire, Woodbum, was asked if the
party would be better off with
Vice President Al Gore as presi-
dent the next two years. He paused
for the count of five, took a deep
breath and said Clinton’s resigna-
tion would probably not prevent
the Lewinsky affair from domi-
nating the elections anyhow.
Will Clinton survive?
“Today, yes,” the chairman
said. ‘Today. But tomorrow’s to-
morrow. The next day’s the next
day. A whole lot can change.”
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to come out in the report. We
don’t,” said Pauline Woods, a
DNC member and former vice
chairwoman the Georgia Demo-
cratic Party. “If it’s something that
will hurt every candidate, he needs
to step down. If not, he needs to
stay and fight.”
McGowan, the Illinois Demo-
crat who talked of censure, said,
“I think we should wait and see
the whole (report) and then we
can see whether he should resign
_ or whatever he should do.”
John Norris, Iowa’s Demo-
cratic chairman, said it comes
down to whether Clinton can ad-
vance his policies. “If he can’t
move forward, he’s got to make
that decision,” Norris said, adding
that he’s seen no impact yet on
Iowa’s campaigns. “If he feels
that way, he’s got to make the
decision to step down. That’s not
for me to do.”
The seniorClinton adviser urg-
ing resignation said many Demo-
crats fear the revelation of
“weighty circumstantial evidence”
in the Starr report. “Now is the
time to take the high road, before
the report,” the adviser said. “He’d
be well advised to leave and say,
‘I can’t do the job people hired me
to do.’”
The adviser has talked to the
president since his Aug. 17 ac-
knowledgment of an affair with
Ms. Lewinsky but has not
broached the subject of resigna-
tion.
Democratic pollster Mark
Mellman said party officials talk
openly of resignation because
Republicans are predicting a 20-
seats gain in the House thanks to
Lewinsky fallout. Like many
Democrats, he says the figure is
inflated.
“I think there’s a certain
amount of unjustified panic set-
ting in,” Mellman said.
David Leland, chairman of the
Ohio Democratic Party, said res-
ignation talk “is way, way, way
too premature. The president has
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