For some strange reason I flashed on a vision of a real or imaginary threat to the VPOTUS.
Why not, the MSM could use the fear to discredit further the Tea Party and maybe help calls for marshal law, while a supposedly more rational response would throw suspicion on HRC and at a minimum render her politically helpless to intervene if that were to be her inclination in such a situation.
IOW, a two-fer...
“marshal” -> “martial”
:-P