[Theodore R.]

HRC is convinced that victory is hers! I’m afraid the American people feel the same way.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

HRC is convinced that victory is hers! I’m afraid the American people feel the same way.

I seriously doubt it. Benghazi is pretty bad, and somebody might make the point that a lot more people than the four who died were in mortal peril while Hillary, like Obama, went home and was off the grid. And Hillary ignored pleas from “Chris,” as she referred to Ambassador Stevens, for more security. She might claim that there was no money for that in the State budget - but Hillary and Bill reportedly now have control of about a quarter of a billion (with a “b”) dollars which she is not overly transparent about the provenance of. That would have bought quite a bit of added security in Benghazi, if she had been alert to the situation there. And if she had been a dedicated patriot.

Besides, foreign governments paid fabulous sums to her partner, Bill Clinton, and contributed handsomely to the Clinton Foundation, of which she was a principal. And did so in violation of the anticorruption provision in the Constitution that

Article 1 Section 9:

No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state

That prohibition does not have an exception for a charitable foundation (unless approved by Congress), and should certainly apply to the handsome emoluments paid to Bill.

State legislators, especially proud supporters of “Campaign Finance Reform,” have no excuse not to exclude violators of the Constitution’s anticorruption clause above from being named on their ballots - certainly not on Row A or Row B of those ballots. Under the Constitution, the states “appoint” their Electors under the direction of their individual legislatures; SCOTUS would have no claim to any authority at all over the elections of Electors in the first instance, and no cause to reject a state provision to enforce a Constitutional good-government provision even if it arrogated the authority to itself. Even allowing the slate of electors on the ballot but burying it on Line E of the ballot would be extremely damaging, including to the other Democrats on the ticket.

The Republicans have a target-rich environment in a Hillary candidacy.