Rose tinted glasses ay?

Well, if I (and by extension the GOP) are looking back at Ronnie with those glasses, then I have to say, if you think people are looking back at the Clinton years with fondness then you're wearing a Vader helmet ... and my evidence is quite clear cut - Hillary is losing her own party's nomination. Everyone knows Bill is part of the "deal" if she wins and he will be back in the West Wing. Hillary uses her first lady credentials as her mantle of experience, puts forth what they did in the 90's, etc, and the "people", in her own party no less, are rejecting her. If the general population looks back on the Clinton Administration with such fondness then why is the second most famous face from that administration losing to a radical city councilman who came out of nowhere? (I know he' s Senator).

I think at this point in American history, coming off a president that clearly couldn't tell us the truth if his life depended on it in the 90's, followed by one that couldn't clearly tell us his own name if his life depended on it to this day, that people are pining for a "straight talker", and that's why McCain won the nomination and is leading in national polls against Barak. Like him or hate him he says what he thinks.

I could further go into Bill's many failing as CIC (North Korea, Bin Laden, lack of integrity, etc), but I think Hillary's struggles, even as Bill campaigns for her, speaks loudest, so I'll leave it at that. If those years are looked back on so fondly as you suggest, and are preferable to Bush's term, then Hillary would be the nominee, and someone like McCain (who is simpatico on Bush's biggest policy, Iraq) wouldn't have a chance. In other words, you're wrong about Slick Willy's nostalgic appeal.