by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 19, 1999

With the Senate’s failure to muster even a bare majority for the conviction of Bill Clinton, some conservatives are near despair.

“I no longer believe that there is a moral majority,” writes veteran activist Paul Weyrich. “I do not believe that a majority of Americans actually share our values.”

“If there really were a moral majority, Bill Clinton would have been driven out of office months ago,” he laments. “The culture we are living in has become an ever-wider sewer. … we are caught up in a cultural collapse … so great that it simply overwhelms politics.”