Hillary unfit? That’s like asking why the sun will rise tomorrow.
Herself was NEVER fit for elective office, as anyone with as this degree of tone-deafness lacks even the least degree of empathy to connect with ANY constituent. For years, people wondered at the apparent rise of Richard Nixon, who, up close, was a rather stilted and introverted person, not one for easy banter, and clearly not the first choice as a seating companion at a formal dinner. But Nixon was a consummate politician, and when he was on the drive to become the Republican Presidential nominee in 1968, he had already been hard at work at the county and even precinct level, lining up support with committeemen and committeewomen in every corner of the land. To the surprise of some, he virtually exploded on the scene as the 1968 nomination approached, and he swept in with a great show of popular acclaim. His major challengers were Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan, but Reagan had entered the race far too late to have a chance at overcoming Nixon’s carefully laid strategy of lining up support well before the convention, and Rockefeller’s constituency was limited largely to northeastern liberal Republicans. The scattering of votes for a diverse field of rivals, came down firmly on the side of Nixon when the balloting was over, picking up 1,238 delegates, to some 93 for Nelson Rockefeller, and 2 for Ronald Reagan.
The complete meltdown of the Democrats prior to and during their convention, and especially rooted in the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, effectively dashed all hope for a Democrat victory in 1968. LBJ would not seek the office again, and only Hubert Humphrey was left standing, the sacrificial lamb that year. Eugene McCarthy, an early favorite, was swamped early on by the popular acclaim for Bobby Kennedy, who had the bad judgment to stop a bullet fired by someone who SHOULD have been favorable to Kennedy’s cause, a Palestinian, Sirhan Sirhan.
Herself, who became active on the national scene when Nixon was facing impeachment, was part of the team tasked with drawing up the Articles of Impeachment. Herself was sharply censured (not actually fired) by Jerome Zeifman, lead attorney of the team. The gist of the tale is that Hillary Rodham wrote a brief arguing Nixon should not be granted legal counsel due to a lack of precedent. But Rodham deliberately ignored the then-recent case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who was allowed to have a lawyer during the impeachment attempt against him in 1970. Moreover, Zeifman claims Rodham bolstered her fraudulent brief by removing all of the Douglas files from public access and storing them at her office, enabling her to argue as if the case never existed. Zeifman has again and again branded Herself as a liar and a willful practitioner of deceit and concealment.
And that was just one of the earliest examples. The saga of the Whitewater scandal in Arkansas, when Slick and Herself were intent on enriching their rather meager combined income as Governor of Arkansas and as an attorney for Rose Law Firm. A fraudulent scheme for skimming proceeds from the sale of vacation and retirement getaways to persons of modest means went awry, and resulted in jail terms for several of the principles, with Herself being the law partner that represented Whitewater, along with Webb Hubbell and several others. The “several others” ended up serving prison terms, while still leaving Herself relatively unscathed, and oddly, when the controversy cooled down, the Rose Law Firm billing statements magically reappeared - in the White House.
On arriving at the White House in 1993, almost immediately a long-time employee of the White House travel office, Billy Dale, was suddenly embroiled in a “problem” with apparent mismanagement, and drummed out, to face criminal charges, which in the end were entirely bogus. The firings were done to allow friends of Slick and Herself to take over the travel business, but this was later sort of reversed to allow most of the former employees (but not Billy Dale) to return, after the “friends” were removed.
The stage had been set, for the entire period during which Herself and Slick occupied the White House, and these were only the first of many puzzling and frankly unethical actions taken by both. There is no point in recounting them here, as those items are only “old news” anyway, and therefore, dismissed by the otherwise hypervigilant media, should any REPUBLICAN choose to proceed with such unsavory acts.
Herself fit for office? Not now, not ever.