Todd Purdum takes on the former president in the new Vanity Fair, up to and including whispers of extracurricular activities. "None of these wisps of smoke have produced a public fire," Purdum writes. "But four former Clinton aides told me that, about 18 months ago, one of the president's former assistants, who still advises him on political matters, had heard so many complaints about such reports from Clinton supporters around the country that he felt compelled to try to conduct what one of these aides called an 'intervention,' because, the aide believed, 'Clinton was apparently seeing a lot of women on the road.' The would-be intercessor was rebuffed by people around Clinton before ever getting an audience with the former president."
The response from Clinton spokesman Jay Carson, in Purdum's piece, practically tells the story by itself: "The ills of the Democratic Party can be seen perfectly in the willingness of fellow Democrats to say bad things about President Clinton."