Rich Lowry:
Before Democrats burn James Comey in effigy, they should think about how the FBI director came to have an outsized influence in the election in the first place.
It’s not something Comey sought or welcomed. A law-enforcement official who prizes his reputation, he didn’t relish becoming an object of hate for half the country or more. No, the only reason that Comey figures in the election at all is that Democrats knowingly nominated someone under FBI investigation.
Once upon a time — namely any presidential election prior to this one — this enormous political and legal vulnerability would have disqualified a candidate. Not this year, and not in the case of Hillary Clinton.
The country has clearly lowered its standards in this election, and Donald Trump’s madcap candidacy provides evidence of that almost every day. But Hillary’s nomination was itself an offense against American political norms and an incredibly reckless act. And the Democrats were supposed to be the party acting rationally.
Clinton effectively locked up the nomination in June and wasn’t cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the FBI until July. What if she had been indicted? Would Democrats have run her anyway? Would they have substituted in a 74-year-old socialist who had lost the nomination battle, or someone else who hadn’t even run? Any of these circumstances would have been unprecedented, but Democrats risked it.
They did it, in part, because they could never bring themselves to fully acknowledge the seriousness of the e-mail scandal and, relatedly, the ethical miasma around the Clinton Foundation. They considered it all another desperate trick of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
Clinton henchman David Brock demanded that the New York Times retract its initial report of Clinton’s exclusive use of a private e-mail account in March 2015. A parade of Democratic operatives pooh-poohed the whole thing, from Clinton spokesman Karen Finney (“a politically motivated series of attacks”), to James Carville (“not going to amount to a hill of beans”), to Howard Dean (“hooey”).
When they first got together on a debate stage last October, Bernie Sanders, the only man who had a chance to stop Clinton, pleased the crowd with a ringing denunciation of interest in her e-mails.
Democrats bought the just-so stories offered up by the Clinton campaign. The FBI investigation was just a “security review.” The FBI wasn’t investigating Hillary, but only her server. Anything to deflect from the seriousness of the matter.
Read an article last night and the number one google after the investigation was reopened was, wait for it – how do I change my vote?
Ask Twitter if either Obama and also if Elizabeth Warren are following Hillary.
You get a Nope.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/793526447163924480
(Jack P. gets it wrong in the header, but right in the screen grabs.)
Add Huma to the list of those not following Hillary anymore.
Joe Biden and his wife have just ”unfollowed” Hillary.
Gee, what good does it do to unfollow Hillary AND delete all your tweets to and from her NOW????
Everyone saw all of these people with her just a week ago.
The email leaks show Hillary supporters have always lied in bed or other places.
Liberals don’t care about ethics, truth, integrity, law, order or security. They just want liberalism. NOTHING else matters and that is how we wound up with the Obama disaster.
And its sure not a bed of roses more like thiseels and stink weed