By Alan
Caruba
Imagine that you are the former
Governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, both sitting in
jail after having been found guilty last year of public corruption for accepting
golf outings, lavish vacations and $120,000 in “sweetheart” loans. Compared to
the Clintons they are just two failed bit players.
Writing in the May issue of
Commentary, Jonathan S. Tobin, a senior editor, noted the lack of a “smoking
gun” in the case of just the latest Clinton scandals. “But what Democrats and
all Americans should be asking about this argument is why some people get
prosecuted for corruption on such circumstantial evidence while others are
considered likely to be elected president.”
“Just because a prosecutor isn’t
likely to haul the Clintons into court over all these astonishing coincidences
(or at least not so long as the Democrats control the Department of Justice),
that doesn’t mean their behavior doesn’t smell to high heaven,” said Tobin. “The
court in which the Clintons deserve to be condemned is that of public
opinion.”
The Clintons have conspired and
sometimes acted in direct contradiction of the law to rely on the concept of
circumstantial evidence. Hillary’s use of her own private email server and her
later destruction of that server is a classic example of this behavior. The
high-paid speeches which Bill gave put him into a gray area of collusion,
benefitting from the influence Hillary had as Secretary of State. Ultimately,
the donations to their foundation by foreign governments rank far above a mere
misdemeanor. It was too often just blatant bribery.
I fear that far too many Americans do
not realize that our nation and its system of justice are on the cusp of
encountering serious damage. Merely condemning the Clintons for what we know at
this point is simply not enough.
What is needed is a widespread
denunciation of their actions over recent years.
What is really needed is a decision by
the Democratic Party to withhold the right to run in its primaries for the
office of president, based on her actions deleting emails and accepting donation
to the foundation.
The U.S. media needs to be more vocal
that Hillary withdraw her candidacy.
Why would a media mute its criticism
and a political party ignore the obvious revelations, even if deemed
circumstantial evidence, of the corruption demonstrated by the Clintons? The Clintons have been given a free pass from
the day they entered politics.
As Peggy Noonan, a Wall Street Journal
columnist, has said, “We are defining political deviancy down.” That degrades
the process by which we select and elect the men and women who are given the
role and responsibility of lawmakers.
As Noonan notes of Hillary, “The story
is that this is what she does, and always has. The rules apply to others, not
her.” As recently as 2012, the State Department forced the resignation of a U.S.
ambassador for “in part setting up an unsanctioned private email
system.”
“In 1992 the Clintons were new and
golden. Now, so many years later, their reputation for rule breaking and
corruption is so deep, so assumed that it really has become old news. And old
news isn’t news.”
Except when it is. When old news is an
unbroken succession of wrong-doing it is incumbent on everyone involved with the
present “campaign” by Hillary Clinton to be the next President to not avoid the
stink that arises from both the earlier and most recent revelations.
“A generation or two ago,” said
Noonan, “a person so encrusted in a reputation for scandal would not be
considered a possible presidential contender. She would be ineligible. Now she
is inevitable.”
Those earlier generations have been
replaced by those more intent on celebrity than substance. They have the
attention span of fungus. They lack any vision for America, having never really
learned about or absorbed the lessons that the Greatest Generation and others
passed onto us.
Are there enough of them to plunge
America into the Clinton cesspool by electing her President? One can only pray
that the answer is no.
© Alan Caruba, 2015
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