Move on? That's what liberals said they wanted everyone to do during the Clinton scandals. But it's Bill Clinton himself who has the greatest difficulty putting the past behind him.

President Clinton's new autobiography offers the obligatory regrets over cheating on his wife with a trashy intern, but apparently spends a lot more ink on settling scores with old impeachment enemies. Echoing his wife's laughable charge of a "vast, right-wing conspiracy," Clinton now calls Ken Starr "the instrument of a grand design." Clinton seems game to refight the Monica-gate battles of the late 1990s, with the former president erupting in anger when a British interviewer dared question his contrition over the whole affair.

Republicans, who were glad to be rid of Clinton after eight years in the White House, may be dreading the Arkansan's reemergence on the political scene. It's Democrats, however, who should be uneasy.

In 1988, Bill Clinton's long-winded nomination speech at the Democratic Convention hurt Michael Dukakis by pushing his acceptance speech out of prime viewing time. While in office, Clinton presided over the Democratic Party's first loss of a majority in the House of Representatives in 40 years. In 2000, his presence (and absence) on the campaign trail overshadowed his heir-apparent and fired-up the opposition to elect a Republican president. This summer, his book tour assures that Clinton will steal the spotlight (at least for a few weeks) from John Kerry.

Why, again, do Democrats like this guy?