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He then makes a laughingstock out of himself by accusing right-wing "critics" of practicing "smear" tactics and "guilt by association."
His wild, self-aggrandizing public statements made both of them a laughingstock, and the Vanity Fair photo shoot he arranged sullied Lewinsky's image almost as much as a Penthouse spread would have.
Surely a kinder and sadder story can be whittled from the same evidence, to wit: that Hillary, a blue-stocking in love with a glamorpuss, had too eagerly bought Bill's Gladstone-like tales of helping troubled young women to find peace: enough so anyway to make a potential laughingstock of herself by repeating them on television, and enough also to give Bill some terrible legal advice in the specific matter of Monica.
Do we really want to be the laughingstock of the world?
If to "bork" means to tar someone as a political extremist, and to get a "lewinsky" means, well, you know, then to "quayle" someone means to make some personal limitation seem so overwhelmingly ridiculous that the victim becomes a permanent national laughingstock.