The Ghost of Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton may no longer be an active politician, but her spirit haunts the nation.

I've heard a lot of grumblings about how the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could have retired when Obama was President to allow him to choose a new justice before he left office.  And, even though Obama would have had a hard time getting a Ginsburg replacement through the Senate, especially in the last two years of his second term, Ginsburg didn't want to retire while Obama was in office anyway.  Seems she was so certain that Hillary Clinton would succeed him as President that she looked forward to retiring in 2017 so that the first female President could name another woman to replace her.

Now where would Justice Ginsburg get such an idea that Hillary's nomination for President and her  election to the Presidency were inevitable?  Seems that the good Justice, so right in many ways, was led astray by Hillary and by then-Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz into thinking there was no way any of those silly male Democrats running for their party's 2016 presidential nomination was going to get in Hillary's way and there was no way on God's not-so-green earth that she could be defeated by Donald Trump.  My guess is that HRC and DWS told RBG, "Don't worry - we got this!"

Seems Justice Ginsburg, like so many others, got played, and played in service of Debbie's Machiavellian methods and Hillary's massive ego.  Sure, she believed that Hillary would win in 2016 - heck, I did too, although I didn't vote for her - and so of course she thought Hillary would become the 45th U.S. President  and appoint a woman in her place, especially a woman as liberal as she was. 

And instead, we have Donald Trump, who now gets to replace Justice Ginsburg with a woman, and a right-wing one at that  - most likely an Irish Catholic jurist who will remind everyone why Americans hate Irish Catholics known for serving in public office.

Or just plain laugh at them.

I still can't get over the fact that no one, after all that's happened in the past three-and-a-half years, has written to me to apologize for laughing 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley out of the campaign.