Wednesday, Piers Morgan invited on guest Frank Rich, New York Magazine writer-at-large, to comment on the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, Morgan’s gun control “snowball” fantasy, and crack-smoking Canadian politicians.

The latter led Morgan and Rich to musings on younger voters’ moral relativism. Rich’s conclusion: If politicians give voters what they want, they can smoke all the crack they’d like. Oh yeah, and the Lewinsky scandal wouldn’t be a big deal these days...

Morgan: Should we care about whether any senior politician in the modern age opens up and says, “Yes, I took, you know, cocaine a year ago,” or “Yes, I had an affair,” or whatever it may be? Does any of that really matter do you think? Particularly to younger people? Are they anywhere near as judgmental as their parents and grandparents maybe are about this kind of thing?

Rich: That's a good question. It’s hard to generalize, but my guess is that they are not. And if the politician delivers the goods that are desired by his or her constituents, people can put up with a lot. And certainly we've seen in American politics, you know, look at Mark Sanford. People can come back from all sorts of scandals and be accepted by voters even in very conservative parts of the country. So I think that, you know, the days of the kind of easy moralism are ending. And ... when you look back it's been however many years, not quite 20 years, since the Clinton impeachment. It’s hard to imagine that kind of witch hunt now about somebody's sex life really catching fire in the way it did in the 1990s. I think you're right. I think we're seeing a generational change.