Bill Clinton being able to sustain an image as a lovable rascal is amazing considering how much tawdry and criminal behavior we have evidence of. I mean, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, of course Monica Lewinsky, bombing Iraq to distract from his impeachment, shady pardons, Whitewater, China giving money to his reelection campaign, committing perjury and obstructing justice in the Lewinsky scandal, the list goes on.
But still, a man who at best is a confirmed rake and at worst an outright rapist is said to have a "way with women." A man who, while his two immediate successors are more or less his equals, had a presidency rife with the worst kinds of abuses of power is lauded as an elder statesman and plausibly is only a few years away from a de facto third term.
He really must be an amazing force in person to be able to get people to set all that aside.