Well who are you hoping for in the post? If she is an acceptable qualified choice there is no reason to be deliberately contrarian.
He may be thinking of 1012. Having Hillery occupied at State or other high profile Cabinet post takes her out of the running.
She's as Marxist as Obammie the Commie. Or have you forgotten “Hillary Care” and how she locked the public out of the attempt to nationalize 1/7th of the nation's economy.
The last thing the alleged party of conservatives should be doing is complimenting communists and socialists.
Robert Bork was more than qualified to be on the USSC. That didn't stop the Left from destroying him.