Why Is Hillary Even Being Considered?

Christopher Hitchens asks, over at Slate.com, why we would even be considering putting this dysfunctional family in the Oval Office again. For once, I agree wholeheartedly with Hitchens. Any one of the many instances he enumerates of Hillary Clinton's dishonesty and willingness to say or do anything to win should be enough to knock her out of contention. Yet here she is, a frontrunner. It really is amazing. Imagine if any of the Republican candidates had her ties with Hsu. The press would have destroyed them, and they would be history. But they overlook her brazen lies and tout her as strong and competent instead of dishonest and without character. As Hitchens puts it:

For Senator Clinton, something is true if it validates the myth of her striving and her "greatness" (her overweening ambition in other words) and only ceases to be true when it no longer serves that limitless purpose. And we are all supposed to applaud the skill and the bare-faced bravado with which this is done. In the New Hampshire primary in 1992, she knowingly lied about her husband's uncontainable sex life and put him eternally in her debt. This is now thought of, and referred to in print, purely as a smart move on her part. In the Iowa caucuses of 2008, he returns the favor by telling a huge lie about his own record on the war in Iraq, falsely asserting that he was opposed to the intervention from the very start. This is thought of, and referred to in print, as purely a tactical mistake on his part: trying too hard to help the spouse. The happy couple has now united on an equally mendacious account of what they thought about Iraq and when they thought it. What would it take to break this cheap little spell and make us wake up and inquire what on earth we are doing when we make the Clinton family drama—yet again—a central part of our own politics?

Indeed. Do we really want to look at those faces and hear those annoying voices for four years? Do we want to endure more lies and watch as they tear down our country bit by bit? These people are mentally ill, in my opinion. There must be a medical term for their shared malady. I'm just hoping the American people think long and hard before putting Cruella and Benedict back in office.