The Monica Lewinski scandal first broke when a web site posted information outlining her relationship with the President. That one web posting launched a media feeding frenzy and eventually led to the impeachment of the President.

Is history repeating itself? The same site – which I won’t name – has posted information about a possible extramarital affair between an important Democratic leader and a young woman. The details are light on fact. Soon the details – whatever they are – will make the mainstream media. Blogs are already out there feeding the flames.

You can be sure of one thing: these charges are part of an on-going effort by Republicans to smear the personal lives of Democratic Party officials. That’s the only way the morally bankrupt Republicans think they can win elections.

If the 2004 campaign is fought on the issues – high deficits, lost jobs, foreign policy failures – then the Republicans are in for a huge lose. You can be sure that they’ll do everything possible to keep the real issues facing Americans off the radar screen.