No Jail for Hillary

The Hillary Haters have had a tough couple of years. The outcome of eight (count 'em) investigations by various committees have cleared her of any culpability in the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. Now comes the investigation by the FBI of the issue of her using a private server to handle her emails and it also finds that there is no evidence of anything warranting prosecution. If Social Media is any indication the Democrats won't have to worry about Trump winning the election in November. By then most Republicans with any passion will have died from heart attacks or dehydration from all the frothing at the mouth.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (rep) S.C.

There is no point in trying to use rationale and reasoning to point out the factors that led to these decisions. The Hillary Haters are not interested in rationale, they will be satisfied with nothing short of blood. The GOP allowed the fringe elements to provide the passion for their party under the false assumption that they could be controlled. They had no idea that there were so many of them until they started losing their own jobs. According to Donald Trump they ain't seen nothing yet. Those dastardly Republicans who have not become part of his fawning posse are targeted and have no chance at being reelected due to their reticence according to his edict.

There have been interviews done and articles written explaining how the presumption of innocence and the pesky thing about proof bear on the decisions made by those who are charged with that task. It is not enough just to take Rush Limbaugh at his word (why would anyone do that) or to believe that Sean Hannity is anyone even approaching a reputable source. Allegations don't do the trick no matter how many times you say them.

FBI Director Comey

Director Comey, who was an Assistant Attorney General under President Bush 43 proved to me that he is not beholden to any political power when he refused to be bullied by Presidential Counselor Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andrew Card into signing off of the legal justification for acts of torture committed under President Bush's administration. Only a man with a righteous sense of justice could face down that kind of pressure. It is to his commendation that President Obama appointed him Director of the FBI at a time when uncommon ability was required and he has acquitted himself honorably. I have disagreed with some of his statements but never his reasoned judgment. Now, because he once again did the honorable thing, he is called before Congress like a schoolboy to take a whipping and he took it with honor maintaining his composure and confidence. Legislators who once covered him with praise now accuse him of succumbing to the mysterious, magical power of the Clintons and soiling his pristine reputa

tion. The spectacle is nauseating to watch and a poor example to the world of what our political system is capable of. And now it seems that everyone on Social Media is an expert in investigations along with being a Constitutional scholar.

No, it will do no good to try to reason with these people. They are already aswoon over that protector of political incorrectness and stalwart defender of American borders who can say the most outrageous things and only those in the GOP who have failed to follow (as of yet) are even slightly distressed. Most of the rest realize that it would take something incomprehensible to deny Hillary Clinton the White House this time. The things most likely to be incomprehensible are more outrageous (the word is used so much now it loses significance) utterances for the mouth of Donald Trump. Most recently he was caught praising Saddam Hussein for being good at killing his own people. Perhaps people should be a little uneasy with having a President with those proclivities.

It is going to be a long, ugly summer. At the conventions it is expected that the Democrats will see protest from those Bernie supporters and they have some valid points to make. Bernie is doing a great job of withholding his blessing until he has squeezed every bit of value from it. The Republicans still have rumors floating about of a “Dump Trump” movement. It is scandalously tempting but if it happens it will fracture the GOP so badly that it may take 3 or 4 election cycles to restore it. Some are saying that this is the death of the GOP but I doubt that.

Hillary Clinton

Look, Ms. Clinton is far from perfect. Problem is that she has lived for forty years in the public eye and she has gathered up legions of haters. She has a lengthy record to peruse and anyone who cares can make an educated guess at what she would do as President. She has some things in her past I am uneasy with and I hope she has learned a lot from President Obama about restraint in using military power. Her opponent has very little to study of his public record and what can be studied is not what should be considered to be qualities for a President. He has made no policy statements to contradict anything that Ms. Clinton has said other than to call people names and act like the child you always thought needed a good spanking. He is outlandish.

My Take? Ms. Clinton has pulled some boners but the choice is clear.