Billary getting a free pass from women who should know better...

After watching the CNN debate yesterday, and listening to Obama finally make the assertion that it was "hard for me to know who I am running against," I sat bewildered over the realization that Hillary and Bill are in fact a single, "good cop-bad cop" team that have now brought the debates and the race down to their level of slash/attack/deny politics.

Because most of what the former President says is delivered in viscous, short sound-bite form, in front of fervent supporters, and weary political beat reporters looking for some excitement after suffering months, on a far-to-long campaign trail, he gets a free pass on accuracy and moral judgment. He is able to drop innuendo and outright distortion with his patented "bad boy smirk" and "I'm really angry that you would question my integrity" snarl, in ways that allow his "good cop" wife to play the tearful, thoughtful, "injured party," for the big press outings and debates. It's a powerful team, and truly amazing if it weren't all so completely ambiguous and hypocritical.

As an example, take a quick look at Billary's latest assertions that Barak says one thing and does another regarding Iraq.

Oh…that's right. Hillary is far more consistent in her message. Voting for funding and supporting GW's version of how to "win the hearts and minds of the Middle East" every time it has come to a vote. Every time. She is consistent in her votes on funding, Presidential power, the surge, and every other vote on the Middle East. She has voted with the Republicans every single time, as well as giving impassioned speeches to support her votes.

But if this is the case, how can she begin to attack Obama's record on his opposition to the Iraq war? It's simple. This is what the Clintons have done for decades. Every time they know they are in a tough situation that will make them look like the hypocritical, scheming, slime-buckets that they are, they go on the offensive to sidestep their own records, by besmirching the lives of others who might attack them.

The tactic has come to play in every Clinton debacle in their storied history together. From Whitewater, the Vince Foster investigation, the missing FBI files, numerous insider deals and the serial-philandering history of the big Bubba, their best defense is to move the conversation to an attack on those who would make them look bad. When questioned about ethics or policy, the energy becomes dark, aggressive, and vindictive. Ask those that have worked with the Clintons. From Dee Meyers to George Stephanopoulos, the stories are the same, you don't want to cross these two, or you will suffer from a denial/attack machine that knows no boundaries. You will pay. You will suffer. You will regret asking for the truth.

However, if we are going to take this race down to their level, it's time to stop giving either one of them a free pass. Women know better, but many seem to be so wrapped up in the "it's time for a women President" group-think, that they are willing to vote with their feminist hearts, without examining their candidate with honest feminist ideals.

When I asked my wife and five daughters why they were not Hillary fans, they were almost unified in their feeling that a strong woman candidate would be great, but that Hillary's systematic history as someone who continued to stand by as her husband cheated on her, brought shame to her family, and sullied our nation's reputation, was not an example of a "strong woman."

That thought is so simple. And yet, as I have written before, the reality of her actions (or inaction) were so profound as to derail our nation's world stature, compromise our nation's security, and allow a narrow-minded, dangerously iconoclastic administration to seize power and take our country into the morass of international and domestic blunders from which the entire world is suffering today.

The action was so simple, so casual, and so "Bubba" as to be laughable if the results were not so devastating. While Billary spent the better part of his second term in defense-mode, being forced to capitulate with his attackers, the results were devastating. Was his eye off the ball when it came to the rise of Islamic terror? Did allowing the Gingrich gang to rest power in congress have devastating effects on trade, deregulation, and setting up the rise of GW and the neocon movement? Did the inability to get any progressive bills passed after the loss of congress affect health care, tax reform, and education? Hillary wouldn't know, she was barely speaking to Bill at this time in their marriage and his administration.

It's time to start asking the really tough, and honest questions of both Billary and those that would continue to support them.

Why should we trust anyone who has been proven to be a patent womanizer and liar?

Why would we feel anything but contempt for someone who had such patent disregard for not only the office of the President, but for the future of the country, as to compromise everything that mattered for a "quickie" with an intern?

Why would we support someone who knowingly chose to remain married to someone who has such obvious disregard for their relationship, and disregard for everything they had worked together to attain?

Why should we support someone whose single-minded goal of becoming President can completely overshadow her own self respect, and allow her judgment to become so clouded with ambition as to give a serial philander free pass after free pass?

What does this say about her own moral compass?

Do I think we should forgive those who learn from their mistakes and become better people from the process? Without question. However, as we have witnessed in the past weeks, not only have Billary not learned that being honest does matter, we have seen them again decide to wage a war of half-truths, innuendo and outright distortions to accomplish their goal. Nothing has changed. Bill and Hillary are still the same dysfunctional, vile couple that they have always been.

The only thing that is sadder than the fact that they haven't changed a bit, is that women who should know better are willing to give them a free pass.

Ladies? This is not your best friend with a cheating husband who does not seem to get the fact that covering for his bad behavior is only going to lead to more bad behavior. No, this is the potential leader of the free world. This is someone who is going to be faced with some of the most dangerous and important decisions to face a President in the history of our country.

Sorry ladies, you can't just pass it all off and say, "but gosh, she is one of us!" She is not "one of us." She has exhibited an ability to ignore honesty, integrity, and making the hard decision to do what is right, not what is easy. She has proven that she has the same "common sense" factor as an abused spouse who stays in the marriage because of the promise of a new house. Is this really who we want running our country?