5 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Drop Out Of The Race

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08/24/2015  

Election '16: With Hillary Clinton's campaign being continuously battered, Democrats took this last weekend to consider possible replacements should she become too badly damaged to run. Party leaders might soon start quietly talking to her about a graceful exit.

Vice President Joe Biden reportedly met with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday to discuss the possibility of his entering the race.

The names of California Gov. Jerry Brown and former Vice President Al Gore have been tossed out as possibilities to replace Clinton. Apparently Democrats are considering an election without Clinton. They appear to be getting desperate.

There are many reasons Clinton shouldn't run — more than we have room for and quite enough to sink her campaign if she were a Republican. But for the moment, let's look at five reasons why she should stay home.

•Email scandal: Clinton's choice to use her personal email account linked to a private server in her home while performing her duties as secretary of state shows an astonishing lack of judgment.

So does her decision to use her own personal device rather than a secure State Department-provided device.

By using her own email account and device, Clinton opened herself up to blackmail from hackers (does the Chinese government know more of what was on her private server that was wiped clean than federal and congressional investigators ever will?) and provided for herself and her top aides a way to skirt transparency laws.

The case against Clinton picked up Monday when former Attorney General Mike Mukasey said on MSNBC that Clinton has disqualified herself from holding office because she destroyed federal records when she had the server wiped clean. That is, he noted, a felony.

Also on Monday, Reuters reported that her email problem got worse, because "details" from the State Department's process of stamping her emails as classified "appear to undermine" her collapsing alibi. She has been saying that her emails that have been deemed classified were categorized after, not before, she sent or received them.

•Benghazi: Four Americans were killed on Clinton's watch in the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack, one of them a U.S. ambassador, the first to die on duty since 1979.

Her State Department said that it was simply a wild attack provoked by a video that inflamed Muslims. But the State Department knew it was a planned terrorist attack.

Worse, Clinton might have unknowingly contributed to the attack. Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker says that "putting together the information now publicly available" makes him wonder if "an ISIS hack of Hillary Clinton's virtually defenseless home-brew server set up the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens."

A former secretary of state with that on his or her record should never seek office again.

•For the good of the country, part 1: America neither needs nor deserves to live through the nightmare of a presidential candidate and possible Democratic nominee being investigated up to, and probably beyond, the 2016 election. Does Clinton really want her first appointment after being sworn in to be with her team of lawyers, trying to keep her out of trouble?

We'd hope that Clinton's popularity would fall so low due to the scandals and probes surrounding her that she'd be forced to drop out. But there is a mob of supporters out there who will stand by her no matter what the facts are. Is that mob big enough to elect her? That's hard to say, but the fact we can even ask the question is frightening.

•For the good of the country, part 2: Hillary Clinton is a hard leftist. Don't mistake her for husband Bill, who often governed as a moderate Democrat. She's not as far left as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-identified socialist, but she's close enough.

Her campaign has been filled with calls to "topple" the 1% — a group she belongs to — and to take private money out of political campaigns. She yowls about income and wealth inequality and talks about "fairness" as if it were something that could be achieved if government just had more power and authority.

•She's a Clinton: Both Hillary and Bill have long thought they are above the law. Consequently, they've been dogged by scandals throughout their public life — they simply do what they want to do without thought of ethics, morals or legal limits.

The Clintons even have a lawyer — David Kendall — who seems to have had a full-time job for decades keeping investigators and investigations away from them. This is a family that has set up a foundation that looks as if it were established to arrange favors for foreign interests and to use their money to fund Hillary's presidential run.

The pile of dirt on Clinton is going to have to get higher before she willingly leaves the race. She feels entitled to the office and won't give up easily. But she clearly does not deserve it. The facts say so.

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