Power Line Blog has an article up today by Dan Metcalfe. He is a lawyer who teaches secrecy law at American University’s Washington College of Law. Prior to that he was the Director of the Justice Department’s Office Secrecy and Privacy for over twenty-five years. The implication here is that if anybody is qualified to render an informed decision regarding Hillary’s criminal culpability, it is he. His opinion, the case against Hillary is clear and she would and should be indicted. However, if she is not he will still vote for her.
I can hear the apologist’s now, well she hasn’t been indicted this is nothing more than Bait and Switch. If we were talking about civil service or a licensing issue, then her continuing criminal conduct not having reached the benchmark of a felony criminal conviction, might be a consideration. We are talking politics.
Nixon was never tried, never convicted but it didn’t stop him from making the long ride into obscurity. Teddy Kennedy was convicted of criminally negligent homicide for abandoning a young woman and leaving her to die in his submerged Oldsmobile. Yet he was lionized for his attention to women’s rights and remained in Congress until the day he died.
If conviction is the benchmark, then Wilbur Mills was done a disservice and should have been left alone to do the backstroke in the reflecting pond, with his stripper girlfriend. Chris Dodd and Teddy Kennedy were none the worse for wear after attacking a waitress in a DC restaurant. Teddy was just giving the woman a “reach around”.
Congressman Larry Craig gave up a promising tap dancing career at a variety of airport men’s rooms after being ticketed for inviting an undercover police officer to trip the light fandango with him. Gary Studds became a hero for doing things to an under age Congressional page that Craig only dreamed of and then condemning the House for censuring him.
Are you beginning to see a pattern here? When “they” do stuff it must be subjected to the light of day and the colors are vibrant and sharp and painful to look at as they clash and complete. When “we” get caught the sunglasses come out. The colors are muted and rendered gray. Not just gray but a never ending variation of hue and intensity, so that it is difficult if not impossible to determine just which shade of gray applies.
When I see a dog pissing on a fire hydrant, I don’t think that he is committing criminal mischief. I think that he’s just being a dog. It’s the same way with politicians. They didn’t learn to lie, cheat and steal in order to become politicians. They became politicians in order to increase their potential as liars, thieves and cheats. Expecting moral and ethical conduct from a politician is like expecting virginity from a prostitute. Each, may have possessed such a quality at some point, but it is so far in the past that neither has a specific recollection of that state. Under our form of government, it was the duty of the governed to provide the moral compass to the elected representatives Someone stole the compass.
People like Metcalfe will vote for Hillary, come what may, because they know that psychopaths have no barriers to interfere with the projection of power to obtain any goal, worthy or otherwise. History shows that they are correct in that assessment, just look to other leaders with criminal pasts, Hitler, Ho Chi Mihn, and Mussolini.